[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net announcement

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Good Morning Kevin,

Don't give up on 40m propagation yet !! Last night (Saturday) stateside
signals were very strong (East coast to Central states) exchanging Party
reports. There were some West coast signals later, weak but readable when in
the clear. Heavy RTTY QRM  7.025 up. I had been experimenting with a new
antenna phasing system until dark with much more to do, so all this heard
with a mismatched, mismanaged antenna firing who knows where. Did not
transmit in case I blew up a balun. The problem here with the ECN / QRP
frequency 7.040 +- is RTTY, Letter Station and SSB QRM.  K2 sweats!

73, Geoff.
GM4ESD

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Rock" <kevinrock at earthlink.net>
To: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 3:58 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net announcement

>     But I digress ;)  Tomorrow evening we will attempt another installment
> of the Elecraft CW Net.  Hopefully propagation will allow me to get past
> the Rocky Mountains and at least in to the plains states.  Ohio and
> Pennsylvania are to be hoped for but may be possible.  My sked into OK was
> mostly good this week but working down to ABQ was a struggle at times.  We
> did enter a few streams of particles from the sun giving us a bit higher
> noise level but just makes life a bit more interesting copying S1 sigs
> with an S3 noise level!  But in a couple of years the down years of the
> solar cycle will just be a memory and we will be working Eastern Europe
> and New Zealand with no difficulties.