There is still an active QZX net discussing our Sinclair computers. It meets at 10 AM Pacific local time every Saturday morning on 7235 MHz. It has not missed a session since 1981. However the number of check-ins has been going down. At one time there was a roster of 50-60 calls with about 20 check-ins weekly.
It was founded by W6AMW (yet another Bob, see the Friends column) at the very beginning of the interest in Sinclair computers. Now the most regular calls heard on the net are WA6OUC, W6JPB, and WA6DLI. Two technicians, N6VBM and W6USW, listen in regularly.
There is an Apple net that meets about the same time a few KC away. It has suffered a similar fate. One of the original Apple members checked in to the Sinclair net one morning recently and suggested that the nets might combine because most of the Apple people have left for Macs or clones. So far nothing has come of the merger idea as each probably does not want to leave a familiar frequency and the computers do not have very much in common. (Of course most Sinclair users think that the Sinclair BASIC is much superior to the Apple BASIC. In the interests of harmonious relations you do not have to show this sentence to any Apple user.)
Both the Apple and Sinclair users once had a Sunday net on 14329 MHz near noon. That net was an all USA net. The Sinclair net used to wait for the Apple boys to quit before starting up. The Apple net control was in Colorado. These nets stopped meeting when the band conditions dropped some time ago and just never got going again.