[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening once again,
    The wheel has turned announcing another name.  Nine billion is the 
magic number.  When it has been named the scroll rolls up.  It will be 
exciting.  Maybe tomorrow's net will be exciting as well.  Many of the 
regulars and one NCS is in Dayton, Ohio.  Maybe he'll show up on 40 meters 
but maybe he will be too busy telling folks about Elecraft rigs to break 
free.  If such is the case you will have me as NCS and anyone else who is 
able to act as one.
    I've been head down in circuit design, board layout, soldering and 
programming.  I have interfaced a number of gadgets this week and hope to 
get a couple more in the main loop before too long.  Now to get my 
interrupt timing correct.  My soldering station has not been used for 
non-work related projects in quite a while.  But this is just as much fun 
and I get paid for it so I cannot complain too much ;)
    I did launch an antenna earlier today so I can work with my ATS3 from 
bed.  I had pulled it down for a field exercise a few weeks ago and had 
not replaced it.  The biting flies did not help very much but my friendly 
hummingbirds are eating as many as they can so the population may reach 
steady state.  I am filling the feeder once every two days right now so 
they must be in their second nesting period.  They arrive in late February 
and are gone by mid July.  The foxglove and fireweed will draw them away 
 from the feeders soon.
    The neighboring clearcut is providing a great number of very long 
logs.  I think they will wind up as someone's power poles since they were 
not cut down to dimension lumber lengths.  Some of the earlier loads were 
of large diameter; I was told they were going to peel them for plywood at 
a mill near Salem.  Only another couple of weeks and the Jake brakes won't 
awaken me at 3:30 AM.  They are starting earlier because the fire danger 
is rising with the temperature.  Their workday is done by 3 PM or earlier 
right now.  Soon they will be required to stop loading by 1 PM.  
Considering I get to bed around 11 PM I have a short night's sleep.  I am 
hoping for rain so they can get their hauling done soon!
    We are in a solar stream but there have been no aurorae.  The 20 meter 
band was quiet earlier today but one can never tell what tomorrow may 
bring.  6 meters was open a few times this week so we may have good luck 
on 20 meters.  Forty meters is normally troubled by Midwestern 
thunderstorm activity this time of year but if you can work around that we 
may hook up.  I am hoping for low QRN so my ears won't take a beating.

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

    Until tomorrow,
           Kevin.  KD5ONS