[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Morning to most of you,
    I just had an enjoyable hour of soldering surface mount devices.  I 
never knew how easy they were to handle.  Much less mess than the through 
hole type of components.  Now on to some microcontroller circuits and 
assembly language programming!
    The sun gave us some interesting conditions over the last week so this 
evening's nets may be pretty good.  40 meters has been troubling lately 
but if you catch the timing just right it works quite well.  I know the 
fox hunters were commenting about it on QRP-L yesterday and the night 
before.  Sunspot 720 left us with an X7 class flare but only a glancing 
blow.  Otherwise the folks in Ontario would probably be out of power right 
now.  The ionosphere is energized and the MUF is up.  10 meters has been 
open at times but I am not current on the propagation news.
    The loop antenna is up in a temporary location.  450 feet of 18 gauge 
wire fed with ~25 feet of ladder line.  It hears well on 160 and 80 meters 
but I have yet to make a contact with it.  Simply listening around and 
seeing how she tunes up.  Time will tell how it works on a putative ECN/30 
or ECN/80.

Please join us :
Monday 0000z (Sunday 4pm PST) 14050 kHz
Monday 0300z (Sunday 7pm PST)  7045 kHz

Visit our web site: http://ecn.visionseer.com/ for net details.  Thank you 
for the web space Dan.

No special requirements or exchanges necessary on ECN just check in and 
see what happens.
   Thank you for your support,
          Kevin.  KD5ONS
  


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