[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[kevin]

Good Evening,

    Each day the rain melts the snow.  Each night the snow returns.  
This has continued for about two weeks.  Last night the cycling ate my 
doublet.  It must have broken early because when I saw it this morning 
the hanging wire was coated with an inch of snow.  The snow loads the 
fir tree's branches, which causes them to droop, sometimes from 
horizontal to a few degrees from the axis of the tree.  14 gauge THHN is 
pretty sturdy, it can last for a few winters.  Now it will become radial 
stock.  This antenna must be around five years old, some kind of record :)

   Signals were good to great on both bands.  Twenty meters was very 
quiet.  Then I received my first response and turned down the gain.  
Some slow QSB on folks east of the Mississippi.  The QSB on Roy's signal 
from Iowa was strange.  It sounded like chirp but that affects each 
element of each character.  This "chirped" parts of words.  The QSB was 
not chopping up the characters, it was slower than that rate.  But it 
modulated the tone of characters over the span of a word.  Very odd.  
The sun is definitely giving our ionosphere a deep massage.

    I would like the present propagation conditions to continue :)


   On 14050.5 kHz at 2300z:

NO8V - John - MI

W0CZ - Ken - ND

NS4V - David - NC

K4JPN - Steve - GA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6XK - Roy - IA

KL7CW - Rick - AK

W8OV - Dave - TX


   On 7047.5 kHz at 0018z:

W0CZ - Ken - ND

KG7V - Marv - WA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

WM5F - Dwight - ID

K6PJV - Dale - CA

KL7CW - Rick - AK

K7TXA - Jim - ID



Until next week 73,

    Kevin.  KD5ONS


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