Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   Through a short break in the rain I can see the sun.  The first sun to shine in a few days.  Rain varies from a drizzle to quite heavy.  Tonight and tomorrow are expected to be quite heavy once again.  Yesterday it got heavy enough so I was having a hard time hearing CW under my 'phones!  Once before the first net was interrupted by heavy rain.  Not because of lightning but because the roar on the roof was so very loud.  
   However, the propagation has been good this week with fine signals and very little QSB.  It was fine to have such nice copy while the weather kept me in the house.  It was cold but now it is warm enough to go hiking without a jacket when the rain stops.  I need some rain gear to allow me to hike during inclement weather.  Although now is not a good time to be hiking in the woods.  Deer season is in its fourth week with constant traffic driving back and forth searching for game.

Please join us tomorrow evening.
 
1) Hail signs  (first letter or two of the suffix of your call)
2) NCS help  (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help)

Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0100z (Sunday 6 PM PDT)  7045 kHz

   Stay well,
      Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Mary Carll]

Hi Kevin,

Just thought I'd drop you a quick note from ZL.

I'm a reader of the Elecraft reflector, and a very happy K3 owner - #2867.

I always really enjoy reading your comments regarding your QTH - you
paint a wonderful picture of nature and what is happening there. It
sounds a beautiful place.

Do keep up your writing!

I hope to catch you on the bands some time. I'm 100% CW here, mainly 40
and 30mx at the moment, as the higher bands still aren't a lot of use.
Roll on those sunspots!

Take care, and very 73,

Tony, ZL2AGY/E51AGY
          ( FOC #1645 )
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[N5GE]

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:30 +1200, Mary Carll <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>Hi Kevin,
>
>Just thought I'd drop you a quick note from ZL.
>
>I'm a reader of the Elecraft reflector, and a very happy K3 owner - #2867.
>
>I always really enjoy reading your comments regarding your QTH - you
>paint a wonderful picture of nature and what is happening there. It
>sounds a beautiful place.
>
>Do keep up your writing!
>
>I hope to catch you on the bands some time. I'm 100% CW here, mainly 40
>and 30mx at the moment, as the higher bands still aren't a lot of use.
>Roll on those sunspots!
>
>Take care, and very 73,
>
>Tony, ZL2AGY/E51AGY
>          ( FOC #1645 )

[snip]

I too enjoy the comments in your announcements, Kevin.  It makes me
want to move in next door and raise an antenna farm ;o)  Just kidding,
but I do envy your place from your descriptions of it.

Keep up the good writing!

73,

Tom, N5GE

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[N5GE]

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:19:06 -0700, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>Kevin is demonstrating the art and pleasure of "rag chewing". Comments like
>his are the essence of a great contact on the air that makes Ham radio so
>enjoyable for a lot of us.
>
>Your observations about wherever you live and comments about what's
>important and interesting to you each day are instructive and interesting to
>others.
>
>73,
>
>Ron AC7AC
>

According to QST and the ARRL, ham radio is all about "Radio Sport",
not rag chewing ;o)

You are right Ron.  All of this started happening around 1980 or so.
Now it's completely out of hand.  Saturday night I was trying to work
a rare one when a station in the NY QSO party landed right on top of
him.  What was so bad was that he was below 7.025 in the DX window.

Sorry about the OT Bytes.

Tom, N5GE

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[Julius Fazekas n2wn]

Hi Tom,

You should have listened to what was happening above 7025. Pretty much wall to wall RTTY and SSB. There were. at least, five contests happening on CW, SSB and RTTY...

Some of us did stop contesting to ragchew with JOTA and other non-contesters and I heard one station in the NYQP move on SSB because he was a bit close to a net.

Frankly on 40 it was kinda tough to even hear K4M with all the tuners and cops and other assorted ummm people right on top of them. Thankfully all we had to fight with on 160 was QRN, but it wasn't bad enough to not get 'em in the log. 20 was just as bad here. Big turnoff for working DXpeditions, sometimes wish they wouldn't publish frequencies in advance, seems like there is less QRM then.

Weekends are tough... EVERYONE wants to do their own thing, this past weekend was insane for sure.

Want to get even more insane? Try hopping between all the modes and contests ;o) Oh, QRP most of the time too! hihi

73,
Julius

Radio Amateur N5GE wrote

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:19:06 -0700, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>Kevin is demonstrating the art and pleasure of "rag chewing". Comments like
>his are the essence of a great contact on the air that makes Ham radio so
>enjoyable for a lot of us.
>
>Your observations about wherever you live and comments about what's
>important and interesting to you each day are instructive and interesting to
>others.
>
>73,
>
>Ron AC7AC
>
According to QST and the ARRL, ham radio is all about "Radio Sport",
not rag chewing ;o)

You are right Ron.  All of this started happening around 1980 or so.
Now it's completely out of hand.  Saturday night I was trying to work
a rare one when a station in the NY QSO party landed right on top of
him.  What was so bad was that he was below 7.025 in the DX window.

Sorry about the OT Bytes.

Tom, N5GE

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K3 #806, K3 #1055, PR6,
XV144, XV432, KRC2,
W1 and other small kits.

2 W2's on order
1 K144XV on order

http://www.n5ge.com
http://www.swotrc.net

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