[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   The radio is playing the Thisle & Shamrock show, there are many fiddlers enjoying themselves from all over: Shetland, Scotland, Canada, Ireland, Brittany, and the US.  Today the weather is quite nice with a high temperature of 57 degrees was a very sunny, still day.  I took a hike across the property and found some new elk paths.  Unfortunately my flowers may get zapped again this year since a snow storm is due starting Monday and continuing until Tuesday evening.  The forecast temperatures go down each time I look.  Hmmm...  Five more miles to Marianne's.
   Propagation was good on twenty meters and also on forty meters.  On eighty I could hear the foxes quite well but neither of them could hear me at all.  You think when you hear some one S7 or better that they can hear you; such is not always the case.  However, last night forty meters was fun listening for a rig I have built on a protoboard.  Now that I have one rig in the front room I have an antenna available for testing.  So I tuned it up and listened for a few hours.  A simple NE602/LM386 lashup working with a varactor tuned LO.  One more mile to Marianne's
   I need to get back to the bench and get soldering.  I also need to get out early again tomorrow to find a spot to site deer and elk.  I have been leant a game camera so I can capture images of the critters sneaking by the house when I am not aware.  Five hundred yards to Marianne's.  (Hopefully the snow will not get this deep. :)

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 3 PM PST) 14050 kHz
Monday 0000z (Sunday 4 PM PST)  7045 kHz
 
   Stay warm,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS
 
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