[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[kevin rock]

Good Evening,

I was curious about the origin of the Elecraft CW Net so I did some web 
searching early today.  This lead me to the Elecraft email archives.  
They gave me a large number of ECN announcements and reports; dating 
back to 2004.  After about 30 minutes of reading I found I had had a web 
site.  It was a dead link, so I used the Wayback Machine to find out 
when it was alive.  This gave me some data, but the file I wanted was 
missing.  However, now I had it's full name.

I SSHed into my main file server, then started a search from the mount 
point of all the drives.  When each of my computers reaches its end of 
life I make a copy of its files, and store them on my network.  In this 
case my search for the zip file gave me a response in a very odd 
location: it was inside of a music folder! But, no matter, I had found 
copies of the ECN spreadsheet from its earliest days.  Woo Hoo!  They 
had previously been lost.

This gave me the exact date I was foolish enough to commence the 
enterprise: June 7, 2003.  For some reason I had remembered it as June 
6, 2002.  But, when I looked it up, I found that day was a Thursday, the 
anomoly which started this quest.  The reason June 6th sticks in my mind 
is because of my uncle.  He had passed away only a few months earlier.  
He was also a veteran who landed in Normandy.  Not on the beach, but 
inland, as a paratrooper way before dawn.  Their job was to slow the 
advance of the local Panzer regiment, with strict orders not to blow up 
any bridges while doing so.  I wanted the net to commemorate that day.

The entire search took about two hours, but now I know when ECN began.  
I also found out the 40 meter net is only one month younger than its 
sibling.  I also found copies of net procedures from 2004.  A second, 
broader search lead me to ECN files in five separate computer's backup 
folders.  Now I can delve  deeper into the early days.  I am pretty sure 
ECN was the third Elecraft net instantiation.  By the way, the first 
three check ins were: VE1RGB, W0CZ, and N5IB.

Conditions were OK on twenty meters.  Good signals from some.  A lot of 
contesters moved through during the net.  They couldn't seem to hear any 
of us.  QSB ranged from S2 to S7.  My local noise level was about S3.  I 
did not hear any summer storms; they might appear on 40 meters a little 
later in the day.

Forty meters did not have storm noise either; just a low wall of noise 
behind the signals.  It is time to check my antennas.  Maybe I can 
improve them during these doldrums.  The hummingbirds may not approve 
their perch being molested.  It is convenient attack distance from the 
feeder.  Drop silently from the antenna, then buzz their foe.


   On 14050.0 kHz at 2200z:

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K6XK - Roy - IA

N1AL - Alan - UT

WX7V - Chris - TX

K4JPN - Steve - GA

K7PD - Bert - UT

AB9V - Mike - IN

W8OV - Dave - TX


   On 7047.5 kHz at 0000z:

WM5F - Dwight - ID

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K0DTJ - Brian - CA


Until next week 73,

    Kevin.  KD5ONS


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