[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   It has been a mostly sunny and cool week.  The forecast of 90 degree weather has been cancelled.  Thank you!  Looks like a much more pleasant 70 degree range for this weekend.  The ferns are coming along nicely.  There are at least three types and they have gone into their diploid phase.  Over the winter and after the snow melts they are in haploid phase but I am not a good enough naturalist to know one species from another when they are in that phase.  I just observe.
   Propagation on twenty and eighty meters has been OK.  The normal amount of QRN and QSB but both of them were capable of sustaining a contact.  I am gradually learning more about N1MM.  It is a large application and will take more practice time than I have now to master it.  Reminds me of some schematic capture applications I have which get used so sporadically that I am constantly relearning them.  Most of my CAD apps are intuitive enough so I can go six months or a year without using them and jump right back in without a problem.  I expect N1MM will get to be that way too after I work through this year's Field Day.  The schematic capture apps may take a little longer ;)
   Flowering dogwood started blooming at this elevation early this week and just a few minutes ago I saw my first False Solomon's Seal just off the edge of the property.  Foxglove have popped out of the ground and there are a number of short flowers blooming amidst the fir trees.  The fir are popping their buds and sprouting new growth.  I should see deer soon because they really enjoy that soft new growth.  The trees grow more than they need to provide for the deer.  The grouse are still drumming away but their accent is not the same as those of Wisconsin.  They seem more relaxed here.  In Wisconsin you were never sure if it was a John Deere tractor starting up or a grouse until the beat got too fast for it to be a tractor ;)

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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