[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[kevinr]

Good Evening,

    On Friday I had a little time to check out the new landscape and 
re-place the antennas.  One leg of my primary antenna moved in direction 
but not elevation.  The other antenna had been broken during the logging 
operation but I did not have time to solder it.  About six feet of the 
eighty foot leg had snapped off so I connected the insulated wire with a 
square knot and hung it up out of the way.

    Last night I listened to 160 meter CW and found the broken antenna 
tuned better than did the intact, but longer, antenna. The longer 
antenna has legs of 135 feet (if I remember correctly) at 140 & 310 
degrees.  The shorter, broken, antenna's legs are at 0 & 50 degrees.  
When I started the first net I had forgotten I was turned to the second 
antenna.  Ken told me it is the loudest he has heard me.  The center of 
the antenna is about thirty feet above the lower level of ground.  It is 
on a tree raised on a fifteen foot berm of soil.  While it is an 
inverted V the legs are laid down quite a bit.  Each end is about 
fifteen feet off the ground but at even lower elevation.

    Switching between the two antennas I found the larger one worked OK 
to most directions while the inverted - slanted - V worked like a beam 
into ND and IN.  With fewer trees in the way I can keep experimenting 
with antenna orientations.  I want to move larger antenna's legs to 0 & 
160 degrees with the center at 80 feet above the ground.  0 & 180 
degrees may be possible.


   On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z:

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K0JFJ - Nick - TX

K4JPN - Steve - GA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

W5RG - Bob - FL

AB9V - Mike - IN


   On 7047.5 kHz at 0000z:

W6JHB - Jim - CA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K4TO - Dave - KY

K6XK - Roy - IA

W0CZ - Ken - ND


    Both nets lasted for over twenty minutes until I could no longer 
find new QNIs.  The solar doldrums are not that bad; if you would have 
been on 160 meters last night you would have found many operators, from 
many locations, with a variety of fists and speed.  I fell asleep 
listening to them :)

    Until next week 73,

       Kevin.  KD5ONS


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Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have 
longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not 
listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then 
the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our 
thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen 
to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except 
what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

    Hermann Hesse, 1920