[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   It was a wonderful week to cut, split, and stack wood.  The biting flies were few and the sun was out a little each day.  Today that has changed.  Clouds came in from the north, the wind kicked up, and the temperature dropped again.  The fire feels good; you can ask Sam - fire warden.  Now I have about two months worth of wood prepared for next winter.  It will dry rapidly because this is from the tree I topped about two years ago.  It is still rooted but lying on its side.  Looks like I will get about four months worth of wood out of one tree!
   I am currently listening on 40 meters.  It is much quieter than it has been for a long time.  Hopefully this will hold for tomorrow.  Twenty meters was good a few days ago until just before dusk.  Then it went away.  We held an ARES exercise on Thursday with 2m FM simplex.  Conditions were odd because there was QSB.  I had never heard 2 meters like this before.  Part of the exercise was to quote signal reports in both directions.  During a contact strength would vary greatly so often the reports were in ranges instead of discrete numbers.  

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 warm,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS

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