[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   Another short spate of hot weather and now it is quite pleasant.  The smell of autumn is in the air with a crisp blue sky.  Instead of cutting and splitting I am busily transporting wood back to the house.  The wood I cut in May and June is quite dry and the wheelbarrow feels light even when fully loaded.  No matter what else goes on in my life, good, bad, or indifferent, I always feel good when I see the woodpile in front of the house growing.  A large pile of well seasoned wood means that no matter what I will be warm this winter.  Everything else in the world can go crazy but I will be able to sit by a cozy fire and read as the snow falls and the wind howls.  
   Propagation on 20, 40, and 80 meters was good this week.  I made contacts on each band and had some long ragchews.  There was some QSB but nothing too deep.  Sometimes it would have a flutter to it which would coincide with the dit rate but that was easy to counteract by either speeding up or slowing down my sending.  The weather is too good for antenna work so I think I will wait until Tuesday when wind and rain are expected to do some soldering on my window line.  Currently the flattop is fed with window line which is patched together with wirenuts.  A soldered connection may be better over the winter because the joint will be wet most of the time.  Copper develops a monomolecular oxide coating over time but this does not have the same resistance as pure copper.  A soldered joint with good strain relief will make me feel better and may just work more efficiently than those wirenuts.

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 well,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS

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