[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for Numvember 20th, 2006

[Jean-François Ménard]

Hi, I'm new to CW world, but really like it. As a FISTS member, I do a 
few CW net around here... Ohio OSN and Georgia GTN... I would like to 
know at wich speed we could check in ??? I do only around 10-12WPM.... 
I'M living at Sherbrooke, Quebec...

Thanks

J-F VA2VYZ



Kevin Rock a écrit :
> Wow, who pulled the plug on propagation?  On twenty meters things were 
> going well and then all of a sudden it got very tough.  On forty this 
> held for the entire net.  I ran for twenty minutes each net but did 
> not do very well.  On twenty I got a lot of partial calls and then 
> nothing upon my query.
>
> Partials on twenty meters: ...BS and K1... and ...D.  I think those 
> are KJ7BS, K1EV, and K2HYD but I could not get a response.  It is like 
> the band simply shut off in the space of a few characters.  AB9V, 
> Mike, is normally strong.  Tonight, on both bands, he was just above 
> the noise.  The signals I simply could not pick out were there but not 
> even a letter to be copied.  The noise was quite low though.  Normally 
> this is not a good thing.  It is almost like the bands were absorbing 
> the signals including the QRN.  How odd!
>
> Ric and Rick were the two best signals.  Ric was running 100 watts but 
> KL7CW uses his KX1 each time he checks in.  I was told by folks east 
> of me there was QSB on my signal.  I had some on VE6ITA but he was my 
> best station on forty meters.  Between working AB9V and John there was 
> a gap of about five minutes.  After I got Rick I kept calling for 
> another ten minutes.
>
>
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