[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for December 25th and 26th, 2005

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening Folks,
    I hope your Christmas has been pleasant and safe.  Sam and I had fun 
getting our chores done.  He sleeps and eats, I do the work.  I think he 
likes it that way :)  Elk back strap steak for dinner was a good break 
between the nets.  It rained most of today after starting last night.  The 
very last of the snow is gone up here due to that rain and the 
unseasonable warmth.  It got to 57 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday and stayed 
warm well into the night.  I had to damp the fire to not cook myself out!

    The nets tonight were fun.  A little work but fun.  Ron, my neighbor 
down in Forest Grove, thinks my G5RV works better on 20 meters than on 
40.  Then he is about ten miles, as the crow flies, away.  If I had to 
drive there it is almost twice the distance but you simply cannot get 
there from here ;)  Twenty meters had a little QSB but forty meters had a 
lot of it.  I had to wait for callsigns to build up over a few repeats for 
a few of you.  I do not believe Sam and Randy could hear each other 
because I was getting a strange KL7TQV call sign ;)  But it all worked 
out.  Randy was a bit weaker even though he is closer.  It may be because 
he was QRP.  I am not sure if the toughest copy was Rick or Pat.  Each of 
them gave me a problem on 20 meters.  QSB mixed with QRP signal strength 
was causing Rick's signal to run at ESP or slightly better readings.  Pat 
had strong QSB on him but I think he is my DX station for the evening.  I 
am not really all that far from Palmer, Alaska so Rick is usually pretty 
easy.

    On to the lists.

On 14050 kHz at 2400z:
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K2 - 1031
AC7AC - Ron - OR - K2 - 1289
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798   QNI #25!
K4BEH - Pat - GA - K2 - 5061
KT5E - Jay - CO - K2 - 5037

On 7045 kHz at 0300z:
AC7AC - Ron - OR - K2 - 1289    On a bug
KL7V/5 - Sam - OK - K2 - 3158    Also on a bug
K7TQ - Randy - ID -  K2 - 213   QNI #5   running 5 watts to a 2 element 
Yagi-Uda

Total check ins to the Elecraft CW Net is now exactly 1900!  Thank you for 
your support over the years.  This may become habit forming :)

Merry Christmas to each of you and Happy New Year too.  Next week we will 
cross into the new year according to Greenwich Mean Time.  When I start 
the 20 meter net those Londoners will be ringing in the new year.  At the 
time of the forty meter net the new year will be across the Atlantic into 
Eastern Brazil.  Most likely by the time I get the report done it will be 
in Newfoundland.  Nothing like Amateur Radio to get your geography 
exercised!

Thank you and good evening,
    73,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)


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