[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[kevin]

Good Morning,

    I appreciate the pleasant propagation report you imagined for me.  
The critters were a nice touch.  No QRN without QSB sounds like living 
in RF paradise.  I am consistently amazed at net activity; only once 
have I called a net to no response. Propagation was terrible on a major 
holiday.

    I have been calling for check ins for nearly 21 years.  The 
experience has been edifying and instructive.  I have lost track of how 
many antennas I have used.  They last only a few years due to heavy snow 
fall or high wind.  From resonant dipoles to doublets to 1/4 wave 
verticals to an inverted Y which works rather well.

    I meet quite a variety of individuals.  Each week I learn a little 
more about each of you.  After twenty years I have a pretty good idea of 
who each of you are and your weekly activities.  I stress giving 
complete signal reports, but I hear many more details about each of your 
lives, or a quick weather report.  Very rarely we talk about our rigs or 
antennas.  I think it is enough to know we are both on the air using CW 
as a mode of communication.

    I doubt I am the only person who dreams in CW :)  While I am not a 
hard core contester I do test my mettle now and then.  In the days 
following I hear faint CW in any rhythmic sound.  The interesting fact 
is: once I 'lock in' to an op's rhythm the code part goes away and I am 
in a conversation with them.  However, if you slow down too much I have 
to pick up a pencil for decoding purposes.

   An interesting aside: many weeks I get more email about my 
announcements and reports than I do actual check ins.  Some of them are 
from folks who are called away for one reason or another, but the lion's 
share is from folks who comment on my writing.  You never can tell what 
will interest a person :)

    Most of all I appreciate the forebearance with which the Elecraft 
crowd has treated me.

Thank you all for your continuing support.

    VY 73,  Kevin.  KD5ONS



On 5/24/23 05:31, Al Lorona wrote:
> Kevin's perseverance is astonishing. Week after week, suffering through poor conditions. He never seems to catch a break. So here is THE KD5ONS CW NET REPORT I HOPE TO READ BEFORE I DIE.
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> "Signals were fantastic. There was no hint of noise nor QSB. At one point, I laid the headphones down and could still copy everyone. We had 91 checkins, including some DX. We all reduced our power to 100 mW. A fox nestled at my feet to listen. A bald eagle landed on the window sill while I called the net. The birds were even chirping CW. It was a night for the ages. See you all next week."
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> Al  W6LX/4