[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   This week has had some highly unusual weather.  Lightning had me unplugging my antennas over and over again.  Normally we have a few lightning strikes a year, if that.  This year I have had many days of thunderstorms in a row.  Our normal rain is kind of a drizzle with no pizzazz.  Lately that has not been not true.  Blasting winds, dark grey clouds, sheets of rain, with lightning and thunder.  All and all pretty exciting.  But, having grown up with this, it tends to relax me and let me sleep soundly.  A great thunderstorm has always made me happy :)  
   Conditions on twenty meters have been fair to good this week.  I tried 40 meters a little before dinner time and found it good too.  Hopefully that will hold for tomorrow.  Now that we are actually seeing a sunspot now and then things are getting better.  That along with the onset of Sporadic E season helps propagation.  We had nowhere to go but up so this is good news.  The latest prediction is for a very weak peak but the sunspot forecasting techniques are still in their infancy; maybe they will be wrong and we can experience IGY type propagation once again.  I can't wait for 10 meters to open up consistently so I know what real DX is all about.  

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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