[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for May 22nd & 23rd, 2011

[Kevin Rock]

Good Afternoon,
    I hope you are experiencing a warmer day than I am having.  47 degrees  
F for the high is not what I would expect for late May.  Yesterday it  
snowed for a few minutes before it turned into pellets.  There were a few  
seconds of sun today so all is not bad.  I am also gradually getting over  
my cold.  It was a nasty one.  Last week while running the nets there was  
competition with the 'operators' in my own head.  Luckily the tones were  
not the same and the rhythms were different so I could pick up the outside  
operators and get them logged.  After a few days of fever and chills it  
finally broke.  I have not tested the propagation once since last week's  
nets.  I have been too busy with this cold.  If there are pauses tomorrow  
it just means I am coughing and cannot send.  It is difficult to sneeze or  
cough and send code at the same time.
    Propagation during last Sunday's nets was not great.  Ken, W0CZ,  
normally is between S8 and S9 and is easy copy.  This time he was hard to  
hear with deep QSB peaking at S3.  To his east, in Minnesota, N0AR could  
not hear me at all.  But further east in Michigan and again in Connecticut  
I was easy copy.  The only other op east of the Mississippi who I worked  
was Steve down in Georgia who gave me a 97 degree temperature report.  The  
only way it gets that hot here is if I sit on my woodstove :)

    On to the lists =>

   On 14050.5 kHZ at 2200z:
NO8V - John - MI - K3 - 820
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K3 - 1183
K1THP - Dave - CT - K3 - 686
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K3 - 642
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457
W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767
N7KRT - Jeff - TX - K2 - 5471

   On 7045 kHz at 0000z:
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K3 - 1183
W6JDB - Jay - OR - K3 - 1288

    I am very glad I collected as much wood as I did last year.  Since it  
is so cold I cannot let the fire go out.  Sure wish spring would get  
started before July.  By then it is almost time for Oregon summer to  
begin.  Maybe this year there won't be a summer.  The local elders spoke  
of a hard winter maybe this is what they meant.  Hopefully some fruit will  
set in the valleys.  Some fruit trees are putting out very few blossoms.   
Others have blossoms for only a short time before they are blown off in  
the next cold storm.  Plowing has yet to begin so crops will be late.  I  
wonder how they will germinate in the cold and wet?
    Until tomorrow stay well,
       73,
          Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)

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