[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevinr at coho.net]

Good Evening,

    I lost another one of my mentors recently.  Royal Robbins was 82.  
He joins another mentor who left us in 2012: Herb Conn. Between these 
two I learned how to climb and how to cave.  I owe many of my wilderness 
ethics to them.  While I never climbed the big walls of California nor 
spelunked the largest caverns of Kentucky I did climb in the Black Hills 
and at Devil's Lake in my home state of Wisconsin.  Most of my caving 
was in the Hills under the Conns' tutelage.  Royal taught me how to 
leave as few marks on the rock face as I did on the way to it.  I do 
miss standing on a summit and lying under twenty foot long soda straws 
but miss them both even more.

    The sun has been active this week as the auroras show.  I got two 
emails from my brother telling me the West Coast was booming into 
Wisconsin right around net time yesterday.  He said the East Coast and 
EU were weak but everybody west of the Rockies was 30 over S9.  Too bad 
I can't convince him to get his license again.  However, this bodes well 
for at least the forty meter net.  Hopefully, twenty meters will open up 
again too.

Please join us tomorrow on:

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

     73,
         Kevin. KD5ONS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Robbins
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39697638
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Herb_Conn

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