[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[kevin]

Good Evening,

     During a lull in the recent storms I had a chance to raise the 
vertical wire of a 1/4 vertical.  I have twenty radials in place with 
four wire segments left to fill in any gaps.  Each element is cut for 
1/4 wavelength at 40 meters.  I started stripping the end of each wire 
when the weather changed.  I remembered the wire nuts in my pocket so I 
used them to affix four radials and the vertical wire to the feedpoint.  
It tested well on both 20 and 40 meters when I sent a few CQs to the RBN.

    Today that 40 m vertical worked well on 20 m, better than it did on 
40 m a bit later.  Conditions were changing all day.  When I turned on 
the radio around 9 AM there was a lot of noise with some QSB.  During 
the first net the QSB ranged over 4 s-units but fairly slowly.  Noise 
was less.  I switched between the two antennas for most noise.  My new 
antenna won, it also got good signal reports.  Signals were a little 
weaker on 40 meters.  Less QSB with higher noise.


   On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z:

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K4TO - Dave - KY

K6XK - Roy - IA

AB9V - Mike - IN

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K4JPN - Steve - GA


   On 7047.5 kHz at 2330z:

KG7V - Marv - WA

K4TO - Dave - KY

K6DGW - Skip - CA

WM5F - Dwight - ID

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

W0CZ - Ken - ND


    Until next week 73,

       Kevin.  KD5ONS


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