[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    The weather has been cool this week but I have seen a few minutes of  
sun.  More flowers are blooming and I think most of the frost danger has  
passed.  Logging season is in full swing.  After a full month of gravel  
trucks driving by starting before dawn I saw my first truck load of trees  
bound for St. Helens.  Each of the gravel trucks has a trailer behind it  
so my road is getting flattened by the sheer weight of each load.
    Propagation has been decent each morning on twenty meters with just a  
little noise and some QSB.  It is good to be able to hear all of a contact  
with strong signals.  Only last year it was hard to do so.  I read  
yesterday in Sky & Telescope that the peak of this solar cycle is due in  
2013.  They also mentioned it will be one of the weaker cycles recorded.   
Oh well, I'll have to wait until the next one I guess :)  I do remember  
the 1958-59 period when I started listening to shortwave.  It was fun.   
IGY was only a year in the past so there was a lot of attention being paid  
to the newly found Van Allen belts and the satellites going into orbit.   
Echo 1 and 2 were fun to watch from the backyard.  It is hard to imagine  
it has been 50 years since Alan Shepard took that first sub-orbital  
flight.  It is also hard to imagine how very little progress we have made  
in space since 1969.

    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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