[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening (can't really say Good Night but that is true in this case),
   Seven hours ago I laid down for a nap.  Wow!  I must have been tired.  It may have been the day filled with whumping sounds.  I awoke at six this morning to find the house and land covered with another seven inches of snow.  It has been snowing for most of the week.  I receive four or five inches of snow and then it goes away with the next rain.  I think the surrounding forests are getting enough moisture to grow well.  My poor daffodils thought it was time to start blooming.  They were wrong.  They are either buried in snow or frozen.  Sorry guys :(  
   Propagation has been good but yesterday it was odd.  My sked into the Southeast was hampered by a nonreciprocal band.  I was receiving quite well, if weakly, while he was not.  Hopefully this will not be the case tomorrow.  From Space Weather I find the sunspots we have are not producing enough energetic particles to enliven our ionosphere.  Even though there are aurora it seems they are due to seasonal change allowing easy entrance rather than from energetic solar particle incursion.  Maybe the QRP-ARCI contest will boost the system enough to help ECN :)  I know some of you will miss out due to family gatherings for Easter but I shall be here in Oregon calling CQ ECN.  It is a lot more fun than slogging through the snow and gathering soggy wood to burn.  Maybe the snow will stop one day and it will go back to Oregon normal - rain, fog, and happy trees.  

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 2200z (Sunday 3 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0000z (Sunday 5 PM PDT)  7045 kHz
 
   Stay warm,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS
 
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