[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    Another pleasant week.  A few heavy fogs have rolled in off the Pacific Ocean and yesterday some real rain.  Today I found the deck wet a couple times but never heard it falling.  When I walked outside I could feel very heavy mist hit my face but I know this was not a fog rain because it was not just under the trees but all over the place.  The fire danger has dropped but there is still a ban on burning.  Luckily they don't limit the use of my woodstove.  It got chilly enough to start a fire, but only for one day.  Thus far this year I have not gone a month without needing some supplemental heat.  Some weeks this is just from doing the laundry, or cooking, or even turning on an incandescent light, but I have had at least one fire each month of the year.  
    Propagation was getting better each day last week so hopefully tomorrow's nets will be good.  The sun has been setting much earlier so that will effect propagation on 40 meters too.  Only a few more days and we will match the longest streak of a spotless sun.  This record was set last July, August, and September so we may set the new record during the very same months.  How very odd.  Predictions are all over the place so it is much like predicting weather in Oregon.  I will stick with my weather rock :)  The only time it has ever failed me was when the wind was so strong I never found it again!  Had to get a new rock.  But sunspots are not the only means of exciting the ionosphere.  For the last few years we have been using those other means to communicate.  Even if the sun does not sprout spots we can keep working each other.

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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