[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    Once again Oregon weather has given us every possible condition.  Full  
sun with warm days.  Rain in torrential amounts.  Now snow, freezing rain,  
sleet, and pellet snow.  Makes life interesting.  Good thing they warn us  
so we can prepare.  I am cozy in the cabin with things to do and plenty of  
nice dry wood to keep me warm.  An interesting occurrence came my way  
yesterday on the way back up the mountain from a trip for supplies.  I was  
driving up through the lower switch backs when I found the road completely  
blocked from one ditch to the other.  I skidded to a halt and waved as the  
forty elk slowly crossed the road.  They gave me curious looks but were  
fairly polite.  Only a few got skittish at my rapid appearance.  They are  
very big when you are only ten feet away from them.  Once they all got to  
the grass they were interested in I drove home.  It was nice to see them.
    Propagation on twenty meters has been good this week.  Forty meters has  
improved for the evening hours so maybe it will be good for tomorrow night  
too.  Now that the weather is cooler I don't get back to the radio shack  
as often.  I have moved most of the computer processing power to the front  
of the house near the fire.  Today I got the network architecture rerouted  
so I am once again connected to my printer without resorting to sneaker  
net.  Windows 7 (64 bit) is giving me some problems but I'll get around  
that by using Virtual Box and SuSE to fix the glitch.  As long as the box  
thinks it is not Windows 7 all the apps run fine.  Sun's Virtual Box  
allows me to run many different operating systems from one location.   
Loading up a new one only takes a few seconds.  Linux is easier to use for  
most things I had been using CygWin to provide.  I use a lot of different  
compilers and assemblers

Please join us tomorrow afternoon and 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 3 PM PST) 14050 kHz
Monday 0100z (Sunday 5 PM PST)  7045 kHz

      Stay well,
         Kevin.  KD5ONS

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