Elecraft CW Net announcement

[Kevin Rock]

Good Evening,
   One more week has passed beneath the bridge.  Water is once again
flowing onto our Oregon hillsides.  We did have a few nice sunny days so I
know they exist but our daffodils are getting another drink before all the
buds complete their mission.  ARECC was good today.  Our class has one
more installment before Pat and I graduate a number of students at level
3.  We will miss teaching our EC what his position requires.  He is a
hoot.  An old Coastie who worked on the Staten Island icebreaker.  It is
often a struggle to stay ahead of these folks.  We will prepare them to be
the best ecomm team in the Northwest if not the entire West Coast!
    But I digress ;)  Tomorrow evening we will attempt another installment
of the Elecraft CW Net.  Hopefully propagation will allow me to get past
the Rocky Mountains and at least in to the plains states.  Ohio and
Pennsylvania are to be hoped for but may be possible.  My sked into OK was
mostly good this week but working down to ABQ was a struggle at times.  We
did enter a few streams of particles from the sun giving us a bit higher
noise level but just makes life a bit more interesting copying S1 sigs
with an S3 noise level!  But in a couple of years the down years of the
solar cycle will just be a memory and we will be working Eastern Europe
and New Zealand with no difficulties.
    I hope to see you all try your hand tomorrow on the nets.

Please join us :
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4pm PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7pm PDT)  7045 kHz

Visit our web site: http://ecn.visionseer.com/ for net details.  Thank you
Dan.

What do you say?  Do you wish to give it a try?  Please do!
    Hasta luego,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS


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[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy-2]

Good Morning Kevin,

Don't give up on 40m propagation yet !! Last night (Saturday) stateside
signals were very strong (East coast to Central states) exchanging Party
reports. There were some West coast signals later, weak but readable when in
the clear. Heavy RTTY QRM  7.025 up. I had been experimenting with a new
antenna phasing system until dark with much more to do, so all this heard
with a mismatched, mismanaged antenna firing who knows where. Did not
transmit in case I blew up a balun. The problem here with the ECN / QRP
frequency 7.040 +- is RTTY, Letter Station and SSB QRM.  K2 sweats!

73, Geoff.
GM4ESD

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Rock" <[hidden email]>
To: "Elecraft" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 3:58 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net announcement

>     But I digress ;)  Tomorrow evening we will attempt another installment
> of the Elecraft CW Net.  Hopefully propagation will allow me to get past
> the Rocky Mountains and at least in to the plains states.  Ohio and
> Pennsylvania are to be hoped for but may be possible.  My sked into OK was
> mostly good this week but working down to ABQ was a struggle at times.  We
> did enter a few streams of particles from the sun giving us a bit higher
> noise level but just makes life a bit more interesting copying S1 sigs
> with an S3 noise level!  But in a couple of years the down years of the
> solar cycle will just be a memory and we will be working Eastern Europe
> and New Zealand with no difficulties.

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