[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    The snow of yesterday has turned into the hail of today.  Still cold;  
high of only 47 degrees F but there were actual minutes of sun (if one  
adds up the spots here and there).  My forecast does have a few 50 degree  
days later in the week but not much in the way of steady sun and no  
promise of any warm days.  The wood pile should hold up until late July at  
this point so I better get busy cutting firewood for the rest of the  
summer.  Maybe twenty cords is a good number for this year too.

    According to the word on the street (aka the 'test results) propagation  
has not been the best.  This same thing has been effecting ECN for quite  
some time.  Forty meters only lands two to five folks a week.  Twenty  
meters does get a few more but I am still not logging very many folks.  I  
wish I could find an alternate NCS in the Midwest.  That would help to see  
if any one is interested and I cannot hear them.  It could be that  
interest in ECN has waned to the point where I should consider ceasing  
activity.  Who can tell?

    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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