Elecraft CW Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Howdy Folks,
    I hope you all are having fun in the EQP.  I have been on a few times
during the day and have worked a number of you.  Sorry if my rig started
to chirp but I did not get the battery charger in gear in time.  The fire
is going well.  Sam is quite happy in his box next to the stove and the
next few loads of wood are drying nicely.  Tomorrow those chunks can warm
me as I bring in a few more loads to dry.
    Friday I got myself snowed in and the power did not go out.  What a
treat!  I did get on the air a few times and worked a couple of folks but
mostly I just listened to the sound of CW.  It is soothing as I work on my
papers.  I dug out and got down to town for some supplies so I will
weather this storm.  Oddly enough the daffodils down in Banks are blooming
like crazy.  They don't know what Pat's daffodils are going through only a
few miles away but 2000 feet higher.  We have at least ten inches left out
of the 18 inches of snow we got starting Thursday night.  I did get a
chance to experience winter driving once again.  My nephew and I went to
see Roger Penrose talk about tensor analysis, conformal mapping, and how
it relates to Cosmology.  It was good to hear the talk and good to talk
with my nephew.  He has got a good head on his shoulders.  We talked about
losing Pat and he was quite helpful and understanding.  I hope he can come
up this summer and help on the house and property work.
    After he dropped me off at my truck the snow got very heavy with very
large flakes.  I drove while watching the fog line since it was very
difficult to see straight ahead.  I stopped in North Plains to eat an ice
cream sundae.  Pat and I used to stop there after errands.  It was a good
way to get my blood sugar up and wait on the storm a bit.  The flakes got
smaller so I started for home again.  The drive to Buxton was better.  I
could see the tracks of the vehicles which had preceeded me.  I hoped none
of them had driven off the road because I could no longer see any of the
road markings.  Third gear and 30 miles an hour was fine.  I got to Buxton
and while getting my mail a friend drove up and told me the road report
for the next eight miles to my house.  I got off the paved road and was
relieved to have the gravel under me.  I drove upward as the snow got
deeper but only lost traction once.  Second gear held all the way.  The
worst part was when I went through the transition from Tualatin Valley
weather to Pacific Ocean weather.  The snow got much deeper fast.  Luckily
it was unusual for Oregon with very dry snow.  I drove through it pretty
easily.
    The EQP is great fun.  I worked a few strings and then searched around
and worked some others.  It is interesting to meet you all in another
venue :)  I know a lot of you from working with you on ECN but the party
is a different way to meet.  I did start with Ken, W0CZ.  That was nice.  
We chatted a bit.  I was his second contact and he was my first.  Quite
fitting since he was my second contact when I started ECN!  I also ran
into Wayne a couple times.  That was nice.  I've yet to hear Eric but I
know he is out there somewhere.  Maybe tomorrow morning I'll find one or
both of them.  I tried a few calls on 15 meters but no luck.  20 was good,
but  40 was better.  80 is currently a bit noisy but I worked a few there
then back to 40.  I think I will take a break and solder a bit.  Can't
spend all my time on the radio :)

     Please join us:
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 3pm PST) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 6pm PST)  7045 kHz

Visit our web site: http://ecn.visionseer.com/ for further details.  Thank
you for the web space Dan.

Until tomorrow,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS
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