[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    I hope your weather is warmer than mine.  A few more days of snow this  
week was not pleasant.  An inch on the ground one day with a little more  
the next.  Supposedly spring is at hand but only a few signs of it are  
showing.  Flowers are very confused.  I have trilliums blooming before  
daffodils and lower down there is a flowering dogwood getting started.   
There is a grouse drumming very close to the house.  Each time I walk  
outside I hear him.  I don't think I can sneak up on him because he is in  
a large open bowl.  The sound of my creeping up on him would be so  
magnified I would not even get a glimpse of him.

    Propagation was good the few times I got on this week.  Today the  
balloon was an easy signal to copy for most of its flight.  Only the lower  
elevations were not easily heard here in Oregon.  A solar stream hit the  
earth early today causing a few aurora.  Hopefully this will have calmed  
down by tomorrow while activating the ionosphere.  We shall see if the  
East and Southeast are heard once again.  Luckily there are no major  
holidays this weekend.  That will help.

    If anyone is interested in acting as a relay station on either net  
please email me.  I will turn the net over to you for a few minutes so you  
can call areas in my skip zone.  It sure would prove helpful to those I  
cannot reach directly.

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 2200z (Sunday 3 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0000z (Sunday 5 PM PDT)  7045 kHz

    Stay well,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS

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