[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevinr]

Good Evening,

    I have never seen a single elk.  They always appear in groups.  
First three or four, and then more pop out of the background.  Unless 
they move it's hard to tell they are standing fifty feet away.  This 
week the wind was very light but coming toward me.  I saw a few out of 
place bushes and stopped moving. The group resolved into ten elk.  
Finding the bull took about five minutes.  He was way off to my right 
eating something green.  The cows were spread over a hundred yards or so 
also eating something green.  Today I found a well defined path in the 
NE corner of my property.  Once they re-establish their trails it is 
easier to find my way around.  The slash from the thinning is making 
soil. Much of it was broken, dead branches.  One wet winter and they are 
crumbling.

    I expect QSB will be deep and varied tomorrow.  The solar wind has 
been hitting it this week.  That means a noise like winter wind full of 
snow.  But we have past the bottom of the cycle.  I think.  It has been 
a week since the last meager spot.  I recycled a broken power supply 
this week.  Traced the circuit, tested voltages, and found the bug.  
Quite literally.  There was a scorched caterpillar under the leads to 
the voltage regulator. When the supply died there was an odd sound to 
it.  I just pulled another PS from another project to run my 
transceiver.  The "debugged" supply is now feeding another transceiver.  
I use it to listen to AM radio stations after dark when they cut power. 
Switch the mode to lower sideband and it works fine.  Fading is much 
less and fidelity is higher compared to the AM mode at night.

Please join us on (or near):

14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
  7047 kHz at 0045z Monday (5:45 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
       Kevin. KD5ONS


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