[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevin]

Good Evening,

    The huckleberries are getting eaten by the chickadees so I have to 
hustle.  Thimble berries are showing the effects of the heat wave during 
their flowering phase.  Few fruit are ripe in this dry weather.  The 
black raspberries are doing great though. I saw a chipmunk on a branch, 
with his back to the sun, eating one like it was corn on the cob.  He 
lives in the middle of a thicket of berry stalks.  Life is good.

    The sun is growing more active with a speckled surface and lively 
flares.  We may, or may not, be hit by a CME in the near future.  The 
pundits are uncertain.  Solar flux rose to 94 sfu earlier in the week, 
but it has dropped back to 87 at the present time.  Summer storms send 
their normal background noise. Hopefully they signal rain and not more 
fires.

    I was standing under a vine maple when a hawk landed right next to 
me.  I heard the rush of wings then a thump as he grabbed a branch.  We 
looked at each other for a few moments before he decided to leave.  The 
thinning has given him more flight paths through the forest.  That 
chipmunk had better be vigilant, an incautious rodent can become a feast.

Please join us on (or near):

14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
   7047 kHz at 0000z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
       Kevin. KD5ONS


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Time passes softly and I'm a day older
But still I'm living days gone by
Ashes to ashes, the rain's turning colder
Finding tomorrow, the ashes, the rain and I