Elecraft CW Net Report
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Both bands were weak, with noise and QSB. But I was moderately successful given the conditions. One strange thing, NO8V was stronger than either K6XK or K4TO. That's just not normal :) I did hear some ESP code on 20 meters but not well enough to convince me it wasn't just in my head. It happens now and then. Often when I'm working and a squeaky fan is on. I sat down to start the 40 meter net and I listened for a while. To nothing. Not one sound. I looked out the window and found the antenna still up. I checked the switches and the antennas were both online. There was just no noise at all on 40 meters. Two weeks ago that meant I worked no one. I called CQ and K6PJV popped up; weakly, but there. Dale was spending the day inside where it's cool with his KX3 by his side. On the next call I copied M0YK M0YK M0YK. I stared at the paper trying to figure it out. With code this good why hasn't he upgraded to a G call? Then W0YK called again so I could hear the initial dit :) I gave Ed a 329 and he proceeded to tell me he was on K4 number 2. The second K4 to check in to ECN and it's number 2? The first K4 was when K6KR checked in last year. I don't think I got his SN but I am sure #001 is in Wayne's hands. The K4s sound good guys. Brian checked in with a weather report much like mine. He lives closer to the ocean but the Pacific has been socked in for the last few weeks. The clouds just comes inland a bit farther up here. He was working on a clean sweep of the 13 colonies contest. He needed a couple more on CW. On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z: NO8V - John - MI K6XK - Roy - IA K4TO - Dave - KY On 7047.5 kHz at 0000z: K6PJV - Dale - CA W0YK - Ed - CA K0DTJ - Brian - CA Writing parallel code is getting easier. Now to learn how to tune it for best performance. If done well you can achieve teraFLOP performance. If done poorly you can do worse than brute force on a CPU. Maybe another two weeks of study to mount the initial learning curve. Until next week 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Actually, the K4 I am currently using is Wayne's SN 2. Mine is SN 11 and Wayne swapped with me to investigate something on my radio. Dick's, K6KR probably has a SN between our two radios. You were 599 at the beginning, then dropped down to about S7. I was running 100 watts. I couldn't find/hear you on 20m at 22Z which surprised me. It should have been an easy path. Unfortunately, the marginal propagation these days is driving most activity to FT8.
73, Ed W0YK -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of kevinr Sent: 05 July, 2020 19:02 To: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report Good Evening, Both bands were weak, with noise and QSB. But I was moderately successful given the conditions. One strange thing, NO8V was stronger than either K6XK or K4TO. That's just not normal :) I did hear some ESP code on 20 meters but not well enough to convince me it wasn't just in my head. It happens now and then. Often when I'm working and a squeaky fan is on. I sat down to start the 40 meter net and I listened for a while. To nothing. Not one sound. I looked out the window and found the antenna still up. I checked the switches and the antennas were both online. There was just no noise at all on 40 meters. Two weeks ago that meant I worked no one. I called CQ and K6PJV popped up; weakly, but there. Dale was spending the day inside where it's cool with his KX3 by his side. On the next call I copied M0YK M0YK M0YK. I stared at the paper trying to figure it out. With code this good why hasn't he upgraded to a G call? Then W0YK called again so I could hear the initial dit :) I gave Ed a 329 and he proceeded to tell me he was on K4 number 2. The second K4 to check in to ECN and it's number 2? The first K4 was when K6KR checked in last year. I don't think I got his SN but I am sure #001 is in Wayne's hands. The K4s sound good guys. Brian checked in with a weather report much like mine. He lives closer to the ocean but the Pacific has been socked in for the last few weeks. The clouds just comes inland a bit farther up here. He was working on a clean sweep of the 13 colonies contest. He needed a couple more on CW. On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z: NO8V - John - MI K6XK - Roy - IA K4TO - Dave - KY On 7047.5 kHz at 0000z: K6PJV - Dale - CA W0YK - Ed - CA K0DTJ - Brian - CA Writing parallel code is getting easier. Now to learn how to tune it for best performance. If done well you can achieve teraFLOP performance. If done poorly you can do worse than brute force on a CPU. Maybe another two weeks of study to mount the initial learning curve. Until next week 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I had the same issues with the SSB nets. (The CW nets come
during the dinner hour, and today I was at a family picnic dinner.) On 20M I could hear over half of the stations, some at ESP levels, but only Steve, WM6P managed to hear me and relayed my checkin. This was running 100W from my K3 to a 2 element wire beam. I was hearing Eric, WB9JNZ at 55 to 57, but he couldn't hear me. I've always assumed that being in Chicago, he has a fairly high local noise floor. I'm out in the country and can hear quite well. 40M was a total bust. I could barely hear anyone, and no one could hear my 100W to a dipole. The K3 and the two antennas worked well during Field Day, so I put it down to propagation. The question on 20M is why I could hear well and others couldn't hear me. It may be worthwhile to swap out the 20M antenna for another one and see if that improves things. Of course, on Field Day, I did most of my Qs on CW or digital -- two points per Q vs. one after all. And, CW and digital can punch through when conditions aren't good enough for SSB. 73 Bill AE6JV On 7/5/20 at 10:28 PM, [hidden email] (Ed Muns) wrote: >Actually, the K4 I am currently using is Wayne's SN 2. Mine is >SN 11 and Wayne swapped with me to investigate something on my >radio. Dick's, K6KR probably has a SN between our two radios. >You were 599 at the beginning, then dropped down to about S7. >I was running 100 watts. I couldn't find/hear you on 20m at >22Z which surprised me. It should have been an easy path. >Unfortunately, the marginal propagation these days is driving >most activity to FT8. -------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | There are now so many exceptions to the 408-348-7900 | Fourth Amendment that it operates only by www.pwpconsult.com | accident. - William Hugh Murray ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Oh cripes, reading that actually made me salivate.
7K4 Eric WD6DBM On Sun, Jul 5, 2020, 7:28 PM Ed Muns <[hidden email]> wrote: > Actually, the K4 I am currently using is Wayne's SN 2. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Kevin, not sure if that was ’tongue in cheek’, but if that is a he can’t upgrade. He’s already gained a short ‘contest’ call.
You can’t just pick another call over here. -- We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. -William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965) > On 6 Jul 2020, at 03:01, kevinr <[hidden email]> wrote: > > On the next call I copied M0YK M0YK M0YK. I stared at the paper trying to figure it out. With code this good why hasn't he upgraded to a G call? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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On Mon 06 Jul kevinr wrote:
> I did hear some ESP code on 20 meters but not well enough to convince > me it wasn't just in my head. It happens now and then. Often when I'm > working and a squeaky fan is on. One of these years, perhaps, HF conditions will pick up to the point where my KX3 might just enable me to manage a Net check-in from this side of the Atlantic. Not yet, though. I have, on one or two occasions this year, just about almost managed to hear (maybe) the occasional SOTA activator operating from a summit on the eastern side of North America, but none yet clearly enough for me to work, though other operators in Europe (with better antennas and better Morse than me) have succeeded. > On the next call I copied M0YK M0YK M0YK.ÂI stared at the paper trying > to figure it out.ÂWith code this good why hasn't he upgraded to a G > call? Heh. Given, for the most part, G* calls were issued first, and M* (and 2*) calls only came along (for amateurs, at least) when the G* space was full, I'm not sure there's ever been a path to upgrade from M to G. There are chunks of the G* space that used to be "class B licences" (without HF access), but that distinction died with the Morse Test. There have been cases where folk have taken over a call from a silent-key relative, but they're unusual. For the most part, calls are never re-isssued. Recently the regulator has relaxed (or possibly "confused") conditions a bit, and released some calls that were previously marked as "not to be isssued" into the pool, but changing your call when you're not also upgrading your licence is, at best, tedious. At best, these days, the only assumptions you can make are that Foundation licence holders will have an M?3*, M?6* or M?7* (where the ? is the regional modifier) call, Intermediate licence holders will have a 2* call, and all the rest will have Full licences of some vintage. Even then, there are some short (1- or 2-letter suffix) calls that break the pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United_Kingdom and one or two other places try to make sense of the whole muddle, but just when it seems they've nailed it some other confusion comes along... -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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