[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[Rick M0LEP]

On Mon 18 Apr kevin wrote:
> Conditions were worse than I had expected.  Weaker signals, higher 
> noise, with moderate QSB.  Everyone on twenty meters mentioned snow, 
> either actively falling or in the forecast.  I have ferns pushing 
> through corn snow with bedraggled daffodils crushed flat to the ground.  
> The hummingbirds are guarding their feeder.  Forty meters had more noise 
> with no signals.  The sun is not being helpful.

The difference an ocean makes... We (at almost 52 degrees North in IO80) 
have had temperatures over 20C in the last few days.

Propagation has been variable, though. I did manage a fair number of 
SOTA chases over the weekend, but there have been a few radio black-outs 
thanks to solar flares in the last few days. There was one reported at 
around 2330Z yesterday, which is presumably the one that wiped out the 
40 metre Net. There's been another reported at 0748Z this morning...

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73, Rick, M0LEP   (KX3 #3281)