[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevin]

Good Evening,

    After a wet, cool week today feels very nice.  Sunny skies, no wind, 
temperature rose to 79 F.  It is nice to walk outside without the bugs 
around.  The spiders eat them.  The Canada jays are migrating to lower 
limbs eating more bugs.  A few followed me around today as I inspected 
the cleared area.  Elk found the opening last week and are locating 
what's edible.

    The sun did not send many flares this week, but there is a steady 
stream of ions on the way.  When the sun dried things out I laid my 
newly built antenna on the roof, routed some coax from the outside into 
the radio room, and knotted guy rope on either end. I tied one end to 
the rope holding up my 1/4 wave vertical.  I tied the other end to the 
rope holding up my other vertical antenna.  Thus I did not need to waste 
a day shooting, and losing, sinkers to guide leader lines.  I have never 
tried a resonant, flat topped dipole before.  I've always had a rope at 
the feed point as well as one at both ends.  This normally gives me an 
inverted V.  So this antenna is more directive.   It favors a swath from 
Upper Michigan down to northern Florida.  On RBN I find a 6 dB 
difference between my 1/4 wave vertical and this new dipole.


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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