Elecraft CW Net Report for March 25th & 26th, 2007

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    Forty meters was much more RF friendly than 20 meters today.  I  
received a number of reports of prospective QNIs going begging since there  
was either no one there or they could not hear the NCS.  In this case  
there was only one NCS: me, way out in Oregon.  I read on Space Weather  
that we are entering a solar stream but not quite sure when that started.  
Twenty meters had a background hiss which was fairly strong.  Forty meters  
was transmitting a spring thunderstorm quite nicely.  Reports of QSB were  
also wide spread.  But, this is why we get on the air.  If we did not at  
least try we would never know what works and what does not.
    To all the folks thanking me for running the net you are very welcome.  
I get a big kick out of hearing all of you and digging as deep as I can  
hear to put you in the log.  After two nets on Sunday I buzz for a few  
days with the happy glow it gives me.  Pat would chuckle at me when I told  
her of all the folks from here and there who talked with me.  She made  
sure I had the net times set aside so I could continue.  Now that she is  
gone I keep running the nets both for her and for me.  I think they are a  
good thing.  Because of them I have met a great many very nice people.

    On to the lists =>

On 14050 kHz at 2300z:
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422
K3JHT - John - PA - ?
K4GT - Jim - GA - K2 - 2015
NN8K - Sonny - WV - K1 - 380
N3AO - Carter - VA - K2 - 678

On 7045.50 kHz at 0159z:
W6ZH - Pete - CA - KX1 - 85
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422   QNI #45!!!
VE3XL - Ric - ON - K1 - 968
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798
N0FU - Bill - CA - Kenwood
K4GT - Jim - GA - K2 - 2015
AB9V - Mike - IN - K2 - 3993     QNI #95!!!!
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K2 - 1031
W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767
K0RS - Larry - CO - K2 - 2072
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866
W1BPJ - Terry - CO - K1 - 1800
WA3UCR - Bill - PA - K2 - 4716

As ever, if there are any fills or corrections you would like made in  
these records please email me and I will fix the database.  I hope you all  
have a good week this week and have some nice spring weather.  I am  
looking forward to at least one day of sun but cannot plan on much more  
than that given Oregon's capricious weather.  I think the daffodils may  
just open this week if the temperatures stay in the 50s.  We shall see.

Thank you,
    Kevin.   KD5ONS (Net Control Station 5th Class)
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[k6dgw]

Kevin Rock wrote:
> Good Evening,
>    Forty meters was much more RF friendly than 20 meters today.  I
> received a number of reports of prospective QNIs going begging since
> there was either no one there or they could not hear the NCS.

Space weather or no, something was very strange yesterday at 2300Z.  I
heard exactly no one QNI to the net.  Right at net time, an S5 very QRS
station did a QRL? on 14050.6 and twice I told him "yes," however he
didn't hear me I guess and began calling CQ.  Tuned around the net freq
for about a half-hour but nil.

I'm sure the tribander was at least semi-OK since the phone band was
filled with the great bedlam of CQ WPX SSB.  Oh well, I guess that's why
they call it "The Magic of Wireless."  Rigger/tree guy comes out today
to climb my tower, fix broken low band antenna, and set up rigging for
an experimental Marconi-T.  Wind is coming up so not sure if it'll be
save to climb the one steel and one organic towers.

73

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
- www.cqp.org
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