[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for April 16th & 17th, 2006

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    The snow has stopped for a while.  My poor daffodils are sprawled flat 
on the ground though.  Hopefully they will recover when the warmth comes 
back.  There was a short respite of sun toward the end of the day.  This 
made life under the big, snow covered firs interesting.  Whoomp every 
minute or so as the trees relieved themselves of their snow load.  The 
dipoles are hung high in the trees so they are not in danger but the 
center guys do take a beating.  Tuning my antenna for the twenty meter net 
was unusual since there was a three inch covering of snow.  By the second 
net this was gone and tuning was more like normal.
    Twenty meters seemed quiet but when Dave checked in he kindly agreed to 
work folk from the other side of the Mississippi.  Thank you, that was a 
great help!  Ty has to take the award for the weakest signal I was able to 
dig out.  I finally got his TF after five or six attempts.  He jumped from 
non-existent, to ESP, to just barely readable.  But the QSB sometimes 
works to gather in another station.
    On 40 meters the QSB was more on the other end because a number of 
folks mentioned their copy on me was poor.  We also had lots of pigs 
flying around so I confused poor Bruce's call with N0TK who was working 
stations from CO.  Sorry Bruce.  BK TK ?  I'll try harder next time.  I 
need to write my FP number down so I can work a few folks when they stop 
by.  Lloyd wanted my number but all I remembered was 700 something.  Well, 
if you are reading this Lloyd I looked it up, I am FP #765 for the 
record.  QTH: Buxton, Oregon (or, more accurately, the posh suburbs of 
Buxton :)

On 14050 kHz at 2300z:
AB8KJ - Chuck - MI - K1 - 1368
AB9V - Mike - IN - K2 - 3993      QNI #50!!!
K4TO - Dave - KY - K2 - 4117
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422    QNI #15!
VE6ITA - John - AB - K2 - 5384
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K2 - 4398
W1TF - Ty - GA - K1 - 1423    S 0.5 at best ;)

On 7045 kHz at 0200z:
VE6ITA - John - AB - K2 - 5384
KB6CQ - Henry - OH - ?
N0BK - Bruck - MN - K2 - 3646
VE3XL - Ric - ON - K1 - 968
AB8KJ - Chuck - MI - K1 - 1368
W1TF - Ty - GA - K1 - 1423        QNI #30!!
AB9V - Mike - IN - K2 - 3993
K3ESE - Lloyd - MD - K2 - 4442

If there are any correction or additions required to the above lists 
please email me and I will fix the database.

I hope your Easter weekend went well.  I had totally forgotten about it 
until someone wished me Happy Easter on 20 meters.  Friday I was busy with 
taxes and probate and on Saturday software, hardware, and then a wedding.  
Today I was busy collecting more wood and working on getting a 
microcontroller to talk to the other computers on our network across 
Ethernet.  Now to break the wired link and go wireless.  That one may wind 
up either on one of my robots or in the greenhouse.  Now if only I had a 
fast connection to the Internet so I could monitor the greenhouse while I 
am out and about.  It would be nice to know a few details while I am 
gone.  I'd probably just worry about my plants though.  I've got to close 
the control loop so the watering and temperature regulation is automated.  
Then I'd get to do the fun parts: planting, weeding, watching, and 
harvesting.  One of these days...

Until next week stay warm and stay well.
    73,
        Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)