[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   Summer is in Oregon both de facto and de jure.  Weather is very nice today and has been for a day or two.  I tried twenty meters a few times during the week.  Yuck!  Not good.  I was able to make a few short contacts but conditions were very tough.  I was not able to copy very well for more than a few words at a time.  Noise was very high.  Solar activity was enough to keep the band noisy.  Currently I am listening to forty meters.  It has its normal storm related QRN but is good enough to allow contacts.  There is an RTTY contest going on right now.  I should try that mode one day but the sound card modes require a computer; it is like a busman's holiday for me!
   The Doug fir and hemlock are putting on very good growth right now.  I expect to see some of the larger animals coming through the yard to eat the nice soft growth.  I have not seen a deer since I saw the doe with her two fawns.  I have not seen an elk in a few years now.  Even the coyotes are not making any noise lately.  With the full moon they should have been yipping their heads off.  I wonder where everyone went?  There is some logging going on but it is not very heavy.  In fact some of it is on the edge of my property.  They clearcut a few years ago but left a buffer zone along the edge of my woodlot.  Now they are clearing the acre or two of trees.  At first I could not figure out what the whumping sound was which awoke me each morning.  After checking the roof and the outbuildings I saw loggers parked in one of my roads.  Then the whumping sounds made sense.  Who needs an alarm clock when tons worth of trees are falling around the place?  Luckily they wait until 7 AM to start felling them :)  Not your normal logger's hours!  

Please join us tomorrow evening.
 
1) Hail signs  (first letter or two of the suffix of your call)
2) NCS help (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help)
 
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7 PM PDT)  7045 kHz
 
   Stay well,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS

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