Elecraft CW Net Report for September 4th, 2005

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
    The net ran as usual this evening.  Contacts from Nova Scotia to Texas
to Virginia to Colorado.  QSB reports from all sectors but the noise level
was down so contacts were fairly good.  Jim and Dick were giving other
rigs a chance to breath tonight.  Dick's 70 watts seemed pretty weak
though.  I think the band was much longer than normal.  Now that the sun
is going down earlier we may need to reassess whether 40 meters will work
for us soon.  I heard something about Daylight Savings Time changing late
this year but have not had this confirmed.  Do any of you know about this?

At 2257z on 14050 kHz:
WU3R - Brian - WV - ?
AA3WF - Mychael - PA - K2 - 1025
K2HYD - Ray - VA - KX1 - 608
KI8JM - Bob - OH - K2 - 3630
VE1RGB - Gary - NS - K2 - 2519
WU5X - Jim - AR - using his IC rig to learn how good his K2 really is!
N5QVF - Dario - TX - K2 - 4327   QNI #5
W0NTA - Dick - CO - K2 - 1787  QNI #55!!

Thanks folks.  I was tired from chores but it appears the cramping to my
hands has gone away.  Guess that means I may be getting back into shape
;)  The deck is getting closer to covered, the framing is going well, and
lastly -- the wood pile has another cord on it with more stacked in the
forest.  We will be warm this winter!  Feels good to be getting outside
and changing our environment.  Now to drag a radio out and work QRP for a
while.

I need to do a bit of antenna work but the other chores are taking
precedence.  When they get completed I will use my dacron rope to get all
of my antennas higher and more permanently affixed to the fir trees.  The
long awaited loop will get up there too, I promise.  Just have to get all
these other things done first.  I still want to see if we can try 80
meters.

As ever if there are any errors in the above list I will fix the database
and post the errata.

73,
     Kevin.   KD5ONS  (Net Control Operator 5th Class)
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[Thomas M. Beaudry]

> The net ran as usual this evening.

I tried to join this week finally but could just barely make out some
squeaks.  Had the radio here with me in the office tonight but a quicky
indoor antenna just wouldn't cut it.  That and something generating a
whole lot of spurs all over 20M.  Maybe next week from home where the
radio belongs...

> I heard something about Daylight Savings Time changing
> late this year but have not had this confirmed.  Do any of you
> know about this?

My calendar shows the time change on 30 October.  That would be the
last Sunday of the month, same as last year.

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ARS # 1566 ARRL Life member
FPQRP # 1005
NAQCC # 0223 K2 # 3422

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[Matt Osborn]

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:06:02 -0700, Kevin Rock
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> I heard something about Daylight Savings Time changing late
>this year but have not had this confirmed.  Do any of you know about this?


Another month of daylight
 
Clocks will go cuckoo
 
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
 
WASHINGTON - The clock is ticking on a new Y2K-style techno scare in
2007 - thanks to Congress.
That's because legislators slipped a measure into the energy bill that
President Bush is set to sign today extending daylight-saving time by
four weeks - a change-up that machines already programmed for the
annual hour jump may not be prepared to cope with.
 
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/335379p-286516c.html 
 

I've heard some say it will go into effect this year; the above
article says 2007.  I'm not sure if this measure was stripped from the
bill.


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[Kevin Rock]

Thank you Matt.

You have clarified what was ringing in the back of my brain.  I had heard
something was going to change with Daylight Savings Time but not the
particulars.  Thus we may (or may not) have to wait until next year for
the change to occur.  Thank you Ben Franklin and the US Congress ;)  What
would we do without either one of them?  (That was rhetorical folks!)
    Kevin.


On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:08:07 -0500, Matt Osborn <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Another month of daylight
>
> Clocks will go cuckoo
>
> BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
> DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
>
> WASHINGTON - The clock is ticking on a new Y2K-style techno scare in
> 2007 - thanks to Congress.
> That's because legislators slipped a measure into the energy bill that
> President Bush is set to sign today extending daylight-saving time by
> four weeks - a change-up that machines already programmed for the
> annual hour jump may not be prepared to cope with.
>
> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/335379p-286516c.html
>
>
> I've heard some say it will go into effect this year; the above
> article says 2007.  I'm not sure if this measure was stripped from the
> bill.

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