[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 25th & 26th, 2010

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   When I received weather reports this afternoon I had the next to hottest temperature.  Only Steve, K4JPN, in Georgia was warmer at 95 degree.  Even now I am still sticking to the desks at which I seat myself.  The breeze running through the house is regulated by where the most shade is around the house.  Now that the sun is behind the canopy of the trees it is cooling down some.  No matter what you may think Oregon is not all that humid.  Nothing like the Midwest or South.  So when the sun goes down it cools off quickly.  
   Conditions on twenty meters were weak to the East but better to the North and South of me.  I am still waiting for propagation to get back to where it was during the spring.  Even though the solar cycle is on a rising note it is taking its own sweet time about improving.  Forty meters greeted me with heavy QRN.  You may have been calling me but my noise level was S5 during the entire net so I may not have heard you.  Walking out to listen to the trees and birds was quite soothing afterward.  

On to the lists =>

  On 14050 kHz at 2200z:
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866
AB9V - Mike - IN - K3 - 398
KL7QOW - Mike - AK - K3 - 3144
N0TA - John - CO - K3 - 994
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422
W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767
W8OV - Dave - TX - K3 - 3139
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457
WB5BKL - Nick - TX - K3 - 231
WB3AAL - Ron - PA - K2 - 1392
K0DTJ - Brian - CA - K3 - 4113

  On 7045 kHz at 0000z:
KL7QOW - Mike - AK - K3 - 3144
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K3 - 1183
K0DTJ - Brian - CA - K3 - 4113
N0TA - John - CO - K3 - 994

  Hopefully my weather will cool off just a little so I can get back to work on my wood pile.  There is a lot cut in the woods but it needs to get split and find its way home with me.  Once I clear the entire loop I will be able to gather more wood more quickly but until then I am practicing backing up my F250 along a winding path through the trees.  I tried marking the trees with surveyor's tape only to find I could not tell right from left.  So I have modified my scheme to yellow on one side and pink on the other.  That helps me not run into trees.
   Until next week stay cool,
      73,
         Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)

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