[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[kevinr]

Good Evening,

Conditions were not good, abysmal comes to mind.  However, the day was 
not a total bust.  Two flocks of warblers are surrounding the flowering 
shrubs near the house.  The yellow warbler is fairly common, they got on 
my life list almost ten years ago.  But there was a new one which has 
been hard to pin down.  They showed up about a week ago and I've not 
been able to see them long enough to get decent field marks.  Today they 
were outside this window for a full five minutes so I now have the male 
and female Townsend's warbler on my list.  Woo Hoo!  A new one is always 
exciting.

I also tracked down a bug which appears to be almost 40 years old.  In 
1980 I began modeling three dimensional objects.  First came my house 
then the Platonic solids, then I generated various frequency geodesic 
spheres.  Those geodesics are all based on my home brew icosahedron data 
set.  The problem was with the lower five faces.  Instead of being 
ordered counter-clockwise they were in the opposite order.  When I 
created the eight frequency geodesic data set earlier this week the 
display app broke showing all sorts of odd faces.  Once I put the 
original data into the proper order the generating program gave me the 
correct data.  Now I have the sun orbiting my new sphere as was intended.

Two victories in one day outweigh the horrid, abysmal, poor, bad, 
terrible propagation.  I also received a number of emails telling me 
about visiting relatives, trees falling on antennas, loon obsession, and 
having to visit the clinic.  Time for me to get out with my binoculars 
and spy the next occupant on my life list or find another ancient bug.  
This code would be much simpler in APL.  In Forth it was blazingly fast 
even on my TRS-80, using C/C++ on a modern processor blows my mind.  Or 
propagation could improve.


   On 14051 kHz at 2200z:

K6XK - Roy - IA

K4TAX -  Bob - TN


   On 7048 kHz at 0000z:

K6PJV - Dale - CA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA


One of these days conditions will improve.  Until then remember all the 
other aspects of your life.  Fishing is a good metaphor for amateur 
radio.  Sometimes they are just not biting.  Other times have you 
logging ops faster than you can type.  And, then, of course, there are 
the loons :)

   Until next week stay well,

      73,

          Kevin.  KD5ONS










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