Elecraft CW Net Announcement

Good Morning,

    After a week of rain there may be sun on the horizon; if the
forecasters are correct maybe Wednesday.  Propagation has been rather
chilly with SFU around 80 and no sunspots.  Well today the SFU has risen
to 92 and the sun has at least four numbered spots so things may be
getting better for now.  The sunspot minimum is coming with all the doom
and gloom sayers wailing on the street corners.  However, with a good CW
rig solar minimum is not a problem.  The low bands have been getting
better while the upper bands fade.  6 meter E openings are popping up
now and then so enjoy a little CW activity there.  Solar minimum does
not mean you need to pack your rig away in the attic and wait for better
conditions.  If you can't make a contact then work at the bench building
a rig or practice sending the phone book to keep your CW skills facile.  
If you take your rig out into the forest and the propagation fades at
least you are still in the forest - enjoy it.

Please join us on:

     14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
      7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (6 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Bill Frantz]

Kevin is absolutely correct. With wire antennas running QRP in
the IARU contest, I logged:

    4 QSOs on 160M
    7 QSOs on  80M
   11 QSOs on  40M
   37 QSOs on  20M
    2 QSOs on  15M

These scores aren't going to win any contest, but they do show
the bands are open and I certainly had fun. I will note that one
of the 15M contacts was with ZW0HQ. Other bands included
contacts with Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, and Ontario, so it wasn't
just local stations.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 7/10/16 at 10:32 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

>Good Morning,
>
>After a week of rain there may be sun on the horizon; if the
>forecasters are correct maybe Wednesday.  Propagation has been
>rather chilly with SFU around 80 and no sunspots.  Well today
>the SFU has risen to 92 and the sun has at least four numbered
>spots so things may be getting better for now.  The sunspot
>minimum is coming with all the doom and gloom sayers wailing on
>the street corners.  However, with a good CW rig solar minimum
>is not a problem.  The low bands have been getting better while
>the upper bands fade.  6 meter E openings are popping up now
>and then so enjoy a little CW activity there.  Solar minimum
>does not mean you need to pack your rig away in the attic and
>wait for better conditions.  If you can't make a contact then
>work at the bench building a rig or practice sending the phone
>book to keep your CW skills facile.  If you take your rig out
>into the forest and the propagation fades at least you are
>still in the forest - enjoy it.
>
>Please join us on:
>
>14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
>7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (6 PM PDT Sunday)
>
>73,
>Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[k6dgw]

Bob, N6TV, did a full-bore single-op effort at W7RN and the remote was
thus inop so I did about 3 hours on and off in the IARU from home with
K3/100 and my HOA-Stealth.**  All CW, all search and pounce:

         Band     QSOs     Pts  ITU   HQ
          3.5       3       3    1    1
            7      22      48    5    0
           14      38     106    8    2
           21       1       5    1    0
        Total      64     162   15    3

             Score : 2,916

QSO's included CE, OA, LU, KH6, PY, and ZF.  I'd have done much better
on 80 except I fell asleep.  Sunspots help of course but the bands were
still usable in June when the SSN was exactly zero for most of the month.

73,

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV
Washoe County DM09dn

**"HOA-Stealth" is an 80-10 EFHW strung on electric fence insulators
along the top of our wooden fence at about 1.8 meters AGL.

On 7/10/2016 11:21 AM, Bill Frantz wrote:

> Kevin is absolutely correct. With wire antennas running QRP in the IARU
> contest, I logged:
>
>    4 QSOs on 160M
>    7 QSOs on  80M
>   11 QSOs on  40M
>   37 QSOs on  20M
>    2 QSOs on  15M
>
> These scores aren't going to win any contest, but they do show the bands
> are open and I certainly had fun. I will note that one of the 15M
> contacts was with ZW0HQ. Other bands included contacts with Alaska,
> Hawaii, Japan, and Ontario, so it wasn't just local stations.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV

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