Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    I just got home from the picnic given to the ARES volunteers for last  
week's airshow.  Very good food and fun chatting with the others.  I am  
glad the rain held off until it was done.  The weather was pleasant this  
week but it has gotten chilly again.  Enough so that I started a fire this  
morning and got more wood in before I left for town.  Earlier today I was  
able to work NM7N from his mountain top location.  He worked from Mt. St.  
Helens for about three hours.  I was not able to drag him out of the  
contest when he switched to SSB but I did hear him for most of his two  
hour stint on CW.  It sounded like he worked quite a few stations.
    While I was listening to Karl work folks I was checking a circuit I  
built a while back for errors.  I had got it together before the airshow  
last week but had no spare time to check it since.  I had corrected an  
error in the schematic but had failed to complete the power circuit to one  
of the chips.  Seems like ICs will not pass a signal if they are not  
powered :(  Once I put a wire where it should have been I started hearing  
signals on 40 meters.  It is my first scratch built receiver and it is on  
a protoboard.  Now to fiddle with it to see how I can make it better.
    I have a question for the group, hopefully there is a birder who can  
help me with it.  After I moved to Oregon about ten years ago I noticed  
the similarity in species from what I had learned while living east of the  
Mississippi.  In particular there are three species of jays here.  One of  
them lives only in the lowlands: the scrub jay; another lives only at  
altitude: the grey jay; and the third lives all over: the Steller's jay.  
Since I live at 2000 feet I am not too familiar with the scrub jay.  The  
question I have is about the interaction between the grey and the  
Steller's.  When I feed them I find the grey jay arrives in flocks of up  
to ten or even twenty.  They will follow me on my walks for great  
distances awaiting food offerings.  The Steller's comes to the food in  
ones or twos but rarely work in teams.  The greys seem to have close knit  
flocks.  But I have noticed something strange.  Even though the Steller's  
jays are larger they seem to put a good distance between themselves and  
the greys.  Why?
    This morning forty meters seemed quite active and open.  Later, while  
listening on twenty, I found it open as well.  I hope tomorrow gives us as  
good conditions as I heard today.  Hopefully you had a chance to hear Karl  
and worked him if you could.  See you tomorrow.

  Tomorrow:

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

    Please join us:

Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7 PM PDT)  7045 kHz

    73,
           Kevin.  KD5ONS
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