[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevinr]

Good Evening,

     I spent the last few days listening on twenty and forty meters.  
The North American QSO Party is a good way to test my new antenna.  I 
have found the forty meter band picks up around 0030z.  The QSB flattens 
and the signals are easier to dig out. There is a noticeable difference 
in noise level between the inverted-V and the vertical.  After 0000z I 
was able to copy MT, IL, MN, ID, KY, NY, NJ, NM, CT, SD, CO, FL, OR, AZ, 
OK, TX, KS, LA, NV, UT, CA, and wherever VK5MAV is located this week. 
Hopefully I can do as well tomorrow :)

   I will start the second net at 0030z since there was such a 
noticeable difference in propagation after 0015.  I will switch between 
the inverted-V and the vertical often.  As the days shorten I'll move 
the forty meter net back to 0000z.  Until then I will see how we do at 
0030z instead.

    More berries are getting ripe.  I'm looking for a good spot for 
blackberries.  Maybe in the clear cut to the north.  Salmon berries were 
not too good this year.  Neither were the thimbleberries.  The wild 
straw berries were good though.  The fire danger is high right now 
because we have not had rain in over a week.  Looks like we may get some 
fog tomorrow night.  That will help the blackberries.

    There are two sunspots and the SFU is up to 72.  But the auroral 
oval is rather weak.  There was little QSB on anyone I heard on 20 or 40 
meters over the last few days.  Some was present as 40 woke up but then 
it disappeared.  Not much band noise either.  It did not sound like 
there were any thunderstorms.

Please join us on (or near):

14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
   7047 kHz at 0030z Monday (5:30 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
       Kevin. KD5ONS


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*FORD:*
Trillian, are you seriously telling us you’ve been talking to a box of 
shoes?

*TRILLIAN:*
Yes.

*FORD:*
And he -

*ZAPHOD:*
She.

*ARTHUR:*
It.

*TRILLIAN:*
They.

*FORD:*
…thought that you also were the admiral?

*TRILLIAN:*
Well you heard it.

*ZAPHOD:*
What are they? Clinically thick?

*FORD:*
I think they’re very clever, they’re trying to confuse us to death.

*MARVIN:*
I don’t think they’re very clever. There’s only one person as 
intelligent as me within thirteen parsecs of here and that’s me.

/[The Book activates]/

*THE BOOK:*
The Haggunennons of Vicissitus Three have the most impatient chromosomes 
of any life-forms in the galaxy. Where as most races are content to 
evolve slowly and carefully over thousands of generations - discarding a 
prehensile toe here, nervously hazarding another nostril there, the 
Haggunennons would do for Charles Darwin what a squadron of Arcturan 
Stunt-Apples would have done for Sir Isaac Newton. Their genetic 
structure, based on the quadruple-stellated octo-helix, is so 
chronically unstable, that far from passing their basic shape onto their 
children, they will quite frequently evolve several times over lunch. 
But they do this with such reckless abandon that if, sitting at table, 
they are unable to reach a coffee spoon, they are liable without a 
moments consideration to mutate into something with far longer arms - 
but which is probably quite incapable of drinking the coffee. This, not 
unnaturally, produces a terrible sense of personal insecurity and a 
jealous resentment of all stable life-forms, or “filthy rotten stinking 
samelings” as they call them. They justify this by claiming that as they 
have personally experienced what it is like to be virtually everybody 
else they can think of, they are in a very good position to appreciate 
all their worst points. This appreciation is usually military in nature 
and is carried out with unmitigated savagery from the gunrooms of their 
horribly beweaponed, chameleoid death flotilla. Experience has shown 
that the most effective way of dealing with any Haggunennon you may meet 
is to run away… terribly fast.


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