[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    It has come upon us once again: Daylight Savings Time.  Thanks to 
Benjamin Franklin we get to change our clocks to give us more working 
light.  I am unsure why we still do this since we have electric lights but 
it somehow persists.  The factories constructed in the late 19th and early 
20th centuries had skylights and many large vertical windows to allow more 
natural light to shine within.  The remaining structures from this period 
have had those large windows mostly or entirely bricked closed since we 
use artificial lighting within our modern day sweatshops.  Next year we 
will have two more months of savings due to new rules.  However, you folks 
in parts of Indiana, Hawaii, and Arizona don't need to worry about this 
since daylight savings does not occur in those places.
    After that long digression I will announce our new (?) times.  I had 
been planning on moving the time back to where they were before due to the 
increase in daylight hours.  This gives me the perfect reason to do so.  
I'll leave the net times at their UTC or Zulu times so you that have 
clocks set in this manner will not need to change anything.  I will have 
to remember to change my internal clock.  After Ms. Pat took leave of this 
world I have been very busy.  24 hours never seems like enough time to get 
all of our chores done.  Moving the nets back to their old times will give 
me an extra hour on Sunday afternoon to clean, cook, wash, cut and split 
wood, and so on.  Hopefully the propagation will keep improving but these 
step functions in time do play havoc with both folks' schedules and with 
our relationship with the ionosphere.
    The weather has been bouncing back and forth between downpour and very 
sunny today.  I got some chores done early this morning but wood was not 
one of them; it rained far too much.  Hopefully tomorrow morning will let 
me get a week's worth of wood split and carried into the house.  Luckily 
it is warming up so I don't burn as much.  In a month or two I may only 
have to have a fire a week to keep the chill off.  We have had a few years 
where we went a month without a fire during the summer but that is not 
always true.  The daffodils are starting to bloom at 1000 feet so I expect 
they will start blooming here in a week or two.  Each one I see reminds me 
of her so I have a lot of memories these days ;)

     Please join us:
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4pm PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7pm PDT)  7045 kHz

    Until tomorrow,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS