[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   Twenty meters seems active today.  I am casually contesting getting my gear in order for more mundane events.  WinKey acts as liaison between N1MM and the rig.  Seems like cheating compared to the many times I have logged on paper.  Poke, poke, poke, next.  But I do not have the competitive spirit.  I get bored and wander off to do my dishes and laundry.  The nice day has been rather distracting too!  It went from chilly and wet to warm and humid.  I was awakened by a red glow on the horizon and then about an hour later by the sun.  It is currently a little hazy.  May be all the biting flies gathered over my house.  
   But the bands are open and the sun has tossed a few ions into our Earth's field.  Propagation has been fair to good all week.  Today the extra input by all these contesters is causing the propagation to improve.  I don't think we can equal the sun in its intensity but there are so many folks on the air it seems to have an effect.  I need to check 40 meters to see how it is working.  All of my activity (and practice with the software) has been limited to twenty meters.  It's pretty cool to see the calls show up on the band chart as you work them.  There are so many bells and whistles in N1MM I'll never learn them all! 

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 cool,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS

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