[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for August 23rd & 24th, 2009

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   Twenty meters was faint while forty meters had stronger signals and more storm noise.  Luckily Tom was available before he sacrificed some beast to the BBQ gods!  I imagine he is in his Lazy Boy right now digesting!  I wonder if he roasted marshmallows afterwards?  Weather has turned cooler over much of the country except for a report of 90 degree weather in Colorado.  Hopefully their fire danger is not too bad.  Here it had dropped to the lowest rating but has gone back up to moderate.  I have been seeing a few deer lately and on Wednesday saw an unspotted fawn by my truck.  Soon I saw her mom a few yards behind her nibbling and watching.  The last three nights a very industrious mouse has awakened me multiple times while storing seeds in my closet.  I do miss Sam, especially when he was younger and able to munch those mousies.  I need to go cat shopping.
    There were four new folks today.  Each was checking in a K3 of various vintages from brand new to a 1xx model.  This net is still open for K1s, K2s, and KX1s too.  I did get a couple K2s and a KX1 but no K1.  Pete uses his every now and then to keep me on my toes and there are a few others who check in every so often.  It may simply be the limited propagation we are having lately.  However, even the Maunder Minimum terminated at some point.  I expect those K1s will still be working in a few hundred years.  Now if only everything else would last so long!  Hmmm... forgot about diffusion in ICs.  Maybe our rigs won't be working all that long after all.  A dim memory tells me diffusion rates in silicon are on the order of tens of years.  Maybe if we store our rigs in large Dewars filled with liquid helium they will last a little longer :)
    On to the lists => 

  On 140505 kHz at 2300z:
N0SS - Tom - MO - K3 - 008        *** QNI #315 ***
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798
W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866
W0OGH - Larry - AZ - K3 - 363
W6JDB - Jay - OR - K3 - 1288
WB5BKL - Nick - TX - K3 - 231
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K3 - 642
KC7OTG - Brett - OK - K3 - 1116
K1THP - Dave - CT - K3 - 686
NM4M - Dave - VA - K3 - 766           QNI #10!!
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457
W8FGU - Dave - MI - K3 - 339

  On 7044.5 kHz at 0100z:
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K3 - 1183
W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767
W7AAZ - Bill - ID - K3 - 3328
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457
W8OV - Dave - TX - K3 - 3139
K1THP - Dave - CT - K3 - 686
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798
W6ODJ - Oliver - CA - K3 - 1741
AB9V - Mike - IN - K3 - 398
NM4M - Dave - VA - K3 - 766

   If there are any errors in the above lists please email me.  My ISP problems have been solved but they did dump a lot of mail in the process.  So, if you mailed me anything between last Saturday and the following Tuesday it is gone.  But, since I use multiple addresses for the Elecraft Reflector my report did get posted.  I just could not read it.  Hopefully the mirror they put into place will help eliminate any future problems with the CS UNM system.  
   My, the sun is setting early these evenings.  Not even 7:45 PM and the sun is below the horizon.  Considering I live on a ridge I get a few more minutes of light than those below in the valley.  Forecasts are for cooler weather all week.  I'll keep collecting all the wood I have been cutting and splitting since April.  Because I don't have access to those piles with my truck I get to enjoy hauling load after load with my wheelbarrow.  It is good for me to meditate as I push over hill and dale with a large load of wood.  I keep thinking of the equation: how many times does wood heat me?  The answer is: each time I handle it and then again when I burn it.  This provides me an indeterminate number since some wood gets more handling than others.  All I know is it keeps me fit and then warm.  I wonder what it will be like when I turn 70?
   Until next week stay well,
      73,
          Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)

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