Elecraft CW Net Announcement

Good Evening,
    I was hiking downhill this morning making more than enough noise
when I saw a doe bounce almost straight up in the air.  It seems I had
awakened her from her mid-day nap and cornered her.  I was walking along
a path I had made by cutting through all of the wind fallen timber.  She
was at the end of the path where I had quit cutting last year.  The
funny thing is she moved only a few yards and then hid.

    I monitored 6 meters this week but to no avail.  All I ever found
were a few birdies.  Twenty meters was up and down when I checked it but
my normal skeds were not possible.  I worked the RMR Net on Thursday,
that was not easy either.  The sun does not look dappled enough for the
QSB we're experiencing.  There was an M-class flare yesterday but it was
not pointed at Earth.  What else could be the cause of our propagation
conditions?

    Please join us tomorrow afternoon and 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 2200z (Sunday 3 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0100z (Sunday 6 PM PDT)  7045 kHz

        Stay well,
           Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Gary Smith-2]

Interesting,

After 35 years as a ham I made my first ever 6M qsos last night with
my K3. The ARRL VHF Contest was on and I have no 6M antenna but long
ago I found my 160M antenna works nicely as far as a match goes for
6M (for 10M. 12M and 15M as well) but I never heard anyone on 6M
ever.

Perhaps the almost 400' run of coax to the has something major to do
with that, line losses & all and frankly, a 160M inv-L on a salt
marsh is not the right antenna for 6M much less contesting but... I
managed to work 12 stations and 5 states on 6M barefoot with this
minus gain antenna. So 6M was definitely intact yesterday.

73,

Gary
KA1J
 

>     I monitored 6 meters this week but to no avail.  All I ever
> found
> were a few birdies.  Twenty meters was up and down when I checked it
> but
> my normal skeds were not possible.  I worked the RMR Net on
> Thursday,
> that was not easy either.  The sun does not look dappled enough for
> the
> QSB we're experiencing.  There was an M-class flare yesterday but it
> was
> not pointed at Earth.  What else could be the cause of our
> propagation
> conditions?

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