[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevinr]

Good Evening,

    The twenty meter net may or may not meet tomorrow.  That depends on 
whether there will be room amoungst  the WPX folks. The second net won't 
be a problem: it will begin the moment after the contest closes.  
Conditions are not auspicious.  However, that has not stopped us yet.  
The sun was active earlier in the weak but less so today.  By the way: 
next Sunday, June 6, the Elecraft CW Net will be 19 years old.

    Sometime in 1957 my brother put headphones on my head so I could 
hear his new shortwave receiver.  He found he could keep me out of his 
hair for hours after he showed me how to use the tuning knob and the 
gain controls.  I was hooked on all the odd noises I could find.  
Listening became a habit I maintained until I graduated from high 
school.  The bands are still filled with odd noises.  Many new ones as 
our neighborhoods fill with electronic gadgets.  But there are still the 
old standards.  Whistling noises which move through the passband.  Snaps 
of distant lightning. Hearing my own callsign echoed a little out of 
sync.  Fewer AM heterodynes, but far more SSB signals.  Then there is 
phantom CW found in static the day after a contest.


Please join us on (or near):

14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)    Maybe way off if I can 
find room.
   7047 kHz at 0000z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
       Kevin. KD5ONS


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May my silences become more accurate. - Theodore Roethke