[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevinr]

Good Evening,

    One activity I mixed with radio was XC skiing in the Manzanos, a 
mountain range south and east of Albuquerque where they store nukes and 
supposedly some aliens on levels far beneath.  Pat and I would take a 
break from school and drive south from Tijeras  to some park land where 
the snow was deep enough.  With VHF simplex we could chat and ski.  We 
learned within a hundred yards not to use the VOX :)  When the snow 
wasn't too firm it was much easier to sneak up on the wild turkeys.  
They can't run very fast in loose snow.  We were able to confuse a few 
does too.  We'd flank them into a boxed area and they'd have to choose 
which one of us to pass to get out.  Whispering on the radio was much 
more effective than yelling across a valley.

     I got back into amateur radio because I wanted better comms for my 
robots.  But a few years later I had completed my thesis for an MSEE 
modeling a large number of antennas and using the data to train and test 
neural networks.  Two years of intense antenna study has come in handy 
building them for CW comms and other things too.  I still have dreams 
about Bessel functions.  Kind of like those I had before both physical 
chemistry finals.  You really can dream in five dimensions.

     The sun has a few small spots on it with some solar wind.  We are 
due for a storm on Tuesday.  The solar flux is higher than I have seen 
it in quite some time: 76.  We may have better propagation tomorrow.
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

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