[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for February 24th & 25th, 2008

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   Today was another beautiful day in Oregon.  Sunny and warm with very light winds.  The propagation was pretty good too!  At least on forty meters that is.  Twenty was noisy with various amounts of QSB from region to region.  I lost a number of folks.  I would get their initial hail and never hear them again.  AL and RS were two I remember.  
   It is nice to have a sunny, warm day; two of them in a row in fact.  The house stayed warm with very little effort on my part.  That was good because I spent a lot of time cleaning, washing dishes, doing laundry, folding clothes, splitting wood, burning trash, and other details which had been put on hold during the week.  Hopefully this week will be less well filled with activities.  
   I did notice my hands were cramping during the nets.  This is due to having a mallet in one hand and a gouge in the other for three hours a day plus splitting a bit more firewood with a maul and a wedge.  Fine motor skills are not easily found after your hands have been banging away for hours at a time.  Typing is a chore now too.  But I am making progress on a nice sculpture in red cedar.  In about a week I'll be at the surface I am finding in the wood.
   
   On to the lists =>

On 14050.5 kHz at 2300z:
N0SS - Tom - MO - K3 - 008
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K2 - 4398
K9DMV - Joe - IL - K2 - 5628
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422
AB9V - Mike - IN - K3 - 398
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457
KC7OTG - Brett - OR - K1 - 2474
K5BGB - Rod - TX - K2 - 1126        QNI #20!
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K2 - 4398
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K2 - 5345       QNI #55!!
N2YC - John - NY - K2 - 5949
NK6A - Don - CA - K2 - 1217         QNI #50!!
WB8RTJ - Jim - OH - K2 - 5886
AK2B - Tom - NY - K3 - 109          QNI #45!!
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866

On 7045.5 kHz at 0100z:
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798
W0JFR - John - CO - K2 - 4507
WB3AAL - Ron - PA - K2 - 1392
KA0W - Ken - IA - K2 - 6284
N6GQ - Jeff - CA - K2 - 4763
W7AQK - Dave - AZ - K2 - 96
AB9V - Mike - IN - K3 - 398      ** QNI #150 **
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457
K9DMV - Joe - IL - K2 - 5628
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K2 - 5345
N2YC - John - NY - K2 - 5949        QNI #35!!
K3OOL - Craig - PA - K2 - 4790
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866
K2HYD - Ray - NC - KX1 - 608

   If there are any corrections to be made to the above lists please email me.  Now for a more relaxed week where I can enjoy the wonderful weather.  Pat's daffodils will get fertilized and some of the brush from winter will be cleaned off the yard.  The last of the snow should be gone soon at the rate it is melting.  Further up the mountain there is still quite a bit in the shadows but that won't last long with the sunny days and warm temperatures.  The birds are starting to come back so I should prepare for the hummingbirds.  Pat would start feeding them in late February or early March.  I'll find at least one feeder and get it ready.  There are three of them so I can drive the defensive males crazy ;)  They cannot defend all of them simultaneously so it damages their ego just a little.  But, I watch the more patient females as they feign ignorance of the male displays.  Pat wanted to write a paper on the mating flight patterns she had observed over the years.  I'll have to start taking field notes so I can write that paper one day.  
   Until next week stay well.
      73,
         Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)