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Kevin Rock

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Good Evening,
I had a fairly good week. I spent some time outside working on my
firebreak and a lot of time inside working on software. Many projects saw
progress. Unfortunately I did not dig into my K2. I had a few errands
into town which eat up most of a day. Some unsolicited advice to you all:
do not go to the dentist and talk to your tax advisor on the same day. It
is not good for you! I am glad I had some pressing software projects to
take up the excess processing cycles in my head, getting to sleep was
tough enough! But it all will work out. Life seems to take care of
itself as long as I keep moving ;)

I was able to get on the air a few mornings this week on 20 meters.
The band was pretty good at 1700z so I only lost a little to QSB. After
that I was able to get outside to burn a large amount of brush so I am
closer to having the backyard clear. When that is accomplished I can drop
some of the more dangerous trees and fix my antenna installation.
Currently it is temporarily hooked to some small alder trees. since I
lost the tree which supported that leg I have to compromise with much,
much shorter trees (down from 100+ feet to 10 feet). When I drop the
leaning trees I'll have a direct path to a large cedar. Hopefully the
next blow will not take it since it is very exposed.

Since the price of alder is much higher than the price of Doug fir I am
going to replant the devasted four acres with alder. The side benefit is
its value as firewood. Side note: the hemlock which landed on my house
was a little over 60 years old. The Doug fir which fell a few feet behind
the house was of similar size but only 30 years old. Alder grows at twice
the speed of fir. In twenty years I'll have some very nice, furniture
grade, alder.

Now on to the important stuff: radio! I have been mulling over the
procedure of calling by zone. I want to simplify things a little. So we
are going to call not quite by zone but by area. Here is a list of what I
suggest.

East Coast (1, 2, 3, 4 plus anything from across the Atlantic Ocean)
East of the Mississippi (1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9)
East of the Rockies (1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 5, and 0)
West of the Rockies (1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 5, 0, 6, 7, and anything from
across the Pacific)
Anywhere from then on.

I need to find good names for each of these. East, Miss, Rockies, West,
All ? If you have ever tried to spell Mississippi in CW you'll know why
I've cut it back a bit :) Since Tom normally calls East or West due to
his 20 meter beam I tried to modify his system to fit my geographical
location. Almost all of you are East of me since the Pacific is right
over there. If it was light you could see it :) Let's try this for
tomorrow and see how it works. Remember the zones are inclusive. Because
of my location the weakest stations would normally be on the East Coast;
thus they gain preference. Next weakest are the Great Lake states and the
lower Mississippi. 0 and 5 normally are not too bad except for Tom since
he lives there. Much easier for me are CO, UT, NV, MT, ND, MN, NE, TX etc.

Once again please use 'hail signs' as described last week; they worked
quite well. If you can act as an NCS please help with the net. It is fun
and not too difficult. Only a few minutes of your time will work wonders.

Once again a short review:
1) Hail signs (first letter or two of the suffix of your call)
2) Call by geographic area (East, Mississippi, Rockies, West, All)
3) NCS help is always appreciated (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help)

Please join us:

Sunday 2300z (Sunday 3 PM PST) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 6 PM PST) 7045 kHz

Kevin. KD5ONS
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