Elecraft CW Net Report for August 27th & 28th, 2006

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening Folks,
    The twenty meter net had a little noise caused by a foreign station  
jamming someone else.  Next week I will move further afield.  I will  
announce the offset before I run the net but please look further from  
14050 kHz than normal for ECN/20.  I'll not be close to 14050 kHz if these  
folks keep up their music broadcasts.  Either higher or lower but I will  
try to find a quieter frequency.
    Forty meters was very nice in comparison.  I simply had to fight a  
little QSB and the normal thunderstorm caused QRN.  Not a problem, I've  
grown accustomed to that!  I am not sure about Ron though.  He is normally  
much stronger here.  A note to you folks who don't know our local  
geography.  Ron lives in Forest Grove.  I live north of him about fifteen  
miles but about 1600 feet higher in elevation.  There are no intervening  
mountains like there are for the folks in Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland,  
or Gresham.  He should be strong to me via ground wave.  I assume he was  
using his KX1 but may be fiddling with antennas.  Pete relayed him into me  
 from Southern California!!  Ron may have been skipping right over my home  
above Buxton.  I'll await the rest of the story ;)
    Sounds like most folks had a good weekend and their weather is cooler  
than mine.  I got a bunch of wood cut and stacked into my woodshed.  If we  
have a very mild winter I am ready.  I'll double the amount of wood I've  
got stacked to be prepared for a harsh one.  The decked wood is in great  
shape; now for me to reach that state!  A few hours each day and it will  
get done.  Kevin the ant not Kevin the grasshopper.
    Dinner was a couple of chorizo burritos.  I was stuffed so I gave some  
of the filling to Sam.  He ate all I gave him.  The green peppers, onions,  
even the jalapenos were gone when I picked up his dish!  I think he likes  
the chorizo filling :)  I'll keep him as fat as I can for another year  
with this kind of dinner.  I felt very relaxed after dinner so the second  
net was more fun.  The lack of jamming was a great pleasure but hearing  
you all was best.
    Please stop by whenever you have the time.  Ric has me wanting to  
travel.  I'd love to go to Ontario and work on his hardwood floor.  I've  
done it before out of bird's eye maple so I have a little experience.  I'm  
not sure what type of wood he's using but it would be fun to put in  
another hardwood floor.  Mine came out of a church which had been  
condemned for a bearing wall failure.  We had only a week to take out the  
pews and the floor before they knocked it down.  I was exhausted by the  
time we were done since we were working 18 hour days but we had quite a  
few square feet of very nice wood on our hands.  We sold most of it and I  
put some in my living room in Wisconsin.
    The lists ==>

On 14050.50 kHz at 2300z:
W6ZH - Pete - CA - K2 5138
W0SZ - Steve - CO - K2 - 4088
N8YO - Mike - MI - K2 - 5644     QNI #5!
KT5E - Jay - CO - K2 - 5037      QNI #20!!
WG7Y - Bob - WY - K1 - 2140
AB9V - Mike - IN - K2 - 3993     QNI #65!!
VE3XL - Ric - ON - K1 - 968

On 7045 kHz at 0200z:
W6ZH - Pete - CA - K2 5138
W0ESE - Bryan - MO - K2 - ?    A fly by :)
AC7AC - Ron - OR - KX1 - 004     QNI #10!!
VE3XL - Ric - ON - K1 - 968
KT5E - Jay - CO - K2 - 5037
AE6GC - Jack - CA - KX1 - 1403
WI6O - John - CA - K1 - 922
K1EV - Bill - CT - K2 - 2152

If there are any errors or fills necessary please email me and I'll fix  
the database.  Now I'd better get the rest of my chores done so I can get  
to bed.  Tomorrow I'll not be up at 3 AM but rather a bit later.  The IR  
images came out great.  Now to write reports and get the system in shape  
for the second round of SBIR.  We may even get a chance to rest a bit  
before we do more field work.  I'd like to get the system a bit more  
refined and have the software in better shape.  I am glad it worked so  
well but there is much room for improvement.  Hopefully we'll be granted  
second round funding so that work can take place.  Otherwise I'll have a  
lot more time to work on my house and send out an updated version of my  
resume ;)  Either way Winter will happen so I'd better get ready.
    Until next week: stay well,
       73,
          Kevin.  KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)
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[Ron D'Eau Claire-2]

Kevin wrote:

I am not sure about Ron though.  He is normally  
much stronger here.  A note to you folks who don't know our local  
geography.  Ron lives in Forest Grove.  I live north of him about fifteen  
miles but about 1600 feet higher in elevation.  There are no intervening  
mountains like there are for the folks in Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland,  
or Gresham.  He should be strong to me via ground wave.  I assume he was  
using his KX1 but may be fiddling with antennas.  Pete relayed him into me  
 from Southern California!!  Ron may have been skipping right over my home  
above Buxton.  I'll await the rest of the story ;)

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Nope! I was running the K2 at 100 watts and had just worked a station in the
midwest with strong sigs both ways. I think we're too far apart for ground
wave and short skip "NVIS" propagation wasn't working well.

You were solid copy but definitely very, very weak: almost the weakest
signal I heard check in. I'm blessed with a very low noise level. The
background on 40 is usually a quiet sizzle that doesn't even light up the
first bar on the "S" meter. Your signal occasionally made the first bar
flicker, where others were lighting up the bargraph to S9 or so.

Propagation is very interesting at this point in the Sunspot cycle, despite
what those who grumble about preparing for the next sunspot cycle say.

I'd like to check in more often to see how this works over time, but my
schedule usually doesn't permit it. But when I can I'll be there.

Ron AC7AC


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[Brendan Minish]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 20:27 -0700, Kevin Rock wrote:
> Good Evening Folks,
>     The twenty meter net had a little noise caused by a foreign station  
> jamming someone else.  Next week I will move further afield.  I will  
> announce the offset before I run the net but please look further from  
> 14050 kHz than normal for ECN/20.  I'll not be close to 14050 kHz if these  
> folks keep up their music broadcasts.  Either higher or lower but I will  
> try to find a quieter frequency.

I think this is from China and is jamming another broadcasting station.
It's important that we report these intrusions to our local intruder
watch committees. In the US this would be the ARRL


73
Brendan EI6IZ

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