[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for January 10, 2005

[Kevin Rock]

Hello Folks,
    Another evening on the air.  Some folks were taking a break from the 
RTTY contest and others from the NA QSO party.  Thanks for stopping by.  
The KX1s seem to have something special going for them once again.  From 
Hawaii to Virginia to California to Alaska those rigs are getting into ECN 
very well.  I don't know what it is about them but I can pick them out of 
the noise floor consistently.  There is something about their tone which 
makes them easy to copy.  But I have little experience so do not have the 
words to figure out what is happening.  Maybe one of you can tell me why I 
can copy Ray with an S2 signal from across the continent so well.

On 20 meters at 14050 kHz:
AL7N - Ed - AK - nonElecraft
N0SS - Tom - MO - K2 - 008         QNI #60
K1EV - Bill - CT - K2 - 2152
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K2 - 1031
N4GE - Jerry - TN - K2 - 1054
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798
N7CQR - Dan - OR - ??? - 106   Do you have a KX1 perchance?  The # does 
not fit your listed rigs.
W0SZ - Steve - IA - K2 - 88
NK6A - Don - CA - KX1 - 656
WA5ZNU - Leigh - CA - K2 - 3121
K2HYD - Ray - VA - KX1 - 608
K5JAZ - Jim - LA - K2 - 2535

During the hiatus between nets I made myself dinner since Pat was off at 
some soiree.  Then for some reason I got on the air and started at 0150z.  
Tom, ever present on the bands, told me I was an hour early.  Better late 
than never!  But I took his advice and went back to reading about mutexs 
and semaphores.  Pesky threads are worse than on Anne McCaffrey's Pern!  I 
shall prevail however.  Multithreaded apps allow me to accomplish tasks 
more easily.  But I digress.

On 40 meters at 7045 kHz:
N0SS - Tom - MO - K2 - 008
AB7R - Greg - WA - K2 - 3718
AH6RE - Curt - HI - KX1 - 464      Did you try to check in on ECN/20?
K1EV - Bill - CT - K2 - 2152

40 meters was very tough this evening.  I heard three stations and asked 
Tom for help on one of them.  He also picked up K1EV but I could not hear 
Tom well enough to copy any of the other stations he copied.  Thus this 
list is incomplete.

As ever, any errors on the lists are mine.  They will be corrected upon 
receipt of the information.

Thanks for speeding up Tom.  There were times when that was the best 
method to counteract the deep QSB and nasty QRN.  I was losing far too 
much when you sent slowly due to the conditions.  Burst mode worked very 
well.  Thanks for your help on ECN/40!!

73,
    Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)


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