[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    The weather has been quite pleasant this week.  Enough so that I am now  
stiff and sore from cutting, splitting, hauling, and stacking wood!   
However, the stiffness is lessening with each passing day as is my  
weight.  The rains have held off for the most part only raining at night  
or landing as the heavy mists we frequently get from the nearby Pacific  
Ocean.  If you work hard you can warm yourself enough to counteract the  
chill of the mist.  You're still wet but it is not as cold.  If you slow  
down you get very chilly.  It helps to have a bonfire going nearby or have  
the fire going in the house.
    I was on twenty meters a few days this week and signals were not too  
bad.  I have not tried forty lately but hope for the best.  I know the sun  
spot cycle will start going up soon, at least that is the theory.  During  
the Maunder Minimum the sun was quiet for quite some time.  Folks  
attribute the Little Ice Age to the inactive sun.  If all goes well this  
will not happen to us now.  I've read reports of the next cycle being the  
best ever and other reports of it being not so hot.  Who can tell until we  
are actually done with it?  Kind of like weather predictions in this part  
of Oregon.  A time machine would be the only accurate method but then only  
if causality is not disturbed by its peregrinations.
    Hunting season starts very soon.  Folks are out in force driving around  
the back roads looking for signs of activity.  I need to post the land  
again because the signs are fading with age.  Since I have the only wooded  
acreage for quite a distance both the deer and the hunters all want to  
come here.  The deer and the elk can stay all they like; the hunters have  
to wait for them to leave the cover.  My next door neighbor is not allowed  
to hunt on his 1000 acres because his wife won't let him.  He has to go  
elsewhere on the mountain for his game.  She feeds the deer and elk apples  
which they collect from the local orchards.

Please join us tomorrow evening to test the propagation and your rig.

  Tomorrow:

1) Hail signs  (first letter or two of the suffix of your call)
2) NCS help (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help)

    Please join us:

Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7 PM PDT)  7045 kHz

    73,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS

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