[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   It has been a pleasant if hectic week.  From the wonderfully warm and sunny beginning to the chilly and inclement ending it was a typically Oregonian roller coaster ride of weather.  Sunny and very warm to snow, hail, rain, and cold.  It was not warm enough long enough for the insects to start hatching but they will have their season soon.  More flowers and flowering trees are blooming their way up the mountain.  I know there are at least two flowering dogwood on this property but I will look for more when they start blooming.  Then I can take cuttings to propagate more of them.  I also need to replant the wind damaged area after I am done cutting so I plan a mix of trees, shrubs, and flowers.  That should keep me busy for a number of years.  
   Propagation was also a roller coaster ride.  Some days it was OK but others had both fast and slow QSB with a large portion of noise thrown in making contacts more difficult.  Soon it will be antenna repair season so I can collect all the bits of broken antennas and broken guys and get at least one more wire up in the air.  Then I can rebuild a vertical dipole to try another take off angle.  My antenna switching will turn into an antenna switch board choosing which antenna and which rig.  I will need to break it up so I can have multiple radios on different bands using multiple antennas.  This will take some thinking to get it designed correctly for ECOM and for casual HF use.  

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 0100z (Sunday 6 PM PDT)  7045 kHz

   Stay healthy,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS

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