[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevin]

Good Evening,

    There were moments of sunshine this week.  Mostly sun beams just 
after sunrise and just before sunset.  The rest of the time it was 
cloudy, foggy and rainy.  I saw a movement outside this window 
yesterday.  Not a bird, it was a vole.  It spent about fifteen minutes 
harvesting lichen from a fir trunk.  Food or bedding material?  Probably 
both, lichen is nutritious, deer love it.  It also insulates.

    The sun is covered.  Mostly by one large sunspot group.  It was 
spewing ions as it passed over the sun's limb but has been quiet since 
then.  Lots of energy is tied up waiting to burst.  It will take another 
four or five days before it is not aimed in our direction.  Currently 
solar flux is high; we are in a stream of solar wind.


Please join us on (or near):

14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday  (3 PM PST Sunday)
  7047 kHz at 0100z Monday  (5 PM PST Sunday)


73,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS





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I have taught my fireworks they are matter: they have mass, and take up 
space.  The former lets them be affected by gravity fields.  The latter 
counts when they hit either the earth or the moon in this simulation:

http://bacona.design/fireworks.html

My next step is to give them electrical charge and teach them about 
magnetic fields.  Those particles which hit the earth will interact in 
the ionosphere.  The Lorentz force equation will change their 
velocities.  Ions moving around in a magnetic field create an electric 
field.  Maybe one day I'll take that step too.


A little more about P. A. M. Dirac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-W-w8yNiKU