Good Evening,
Conditions were good today. The RTTY contest was nowhere near our frequency
as had been feared. That is good. There was some QRM but nothing untoward. I
was getting sunny reports from much of the US except California. The folks
down there were telling me rain, rain, and more rain. Good for them; they
won't have to create a pipeline to the Pacific Northwest :) Here in Oregon we
are in a transition from winter to our extremely long spring season. I have
seen spring start in February and not truly switch to summer until late July.
Odd compared to the often short spring season of Wisconsin. Forty below zero
to 75 above in just a few weeks is not uncommon. Sometimes true spring weather
would last as much as ten days! Green plants and flowers would explode out of
the mud with vigor. Bugs would fill the sky in profusion. Oh how I enjoyed
Wisconsin winters ;)
I am tempted to restart the forty meter net. Please send signal reports of
that band for 0000z to 0200z so I can ascertain whether it is time to get them
going again. I do miss hearing the folks I can only hear on 40 meters and it
would be nice to get more work. Currently I am feeling lazy by getting so much
of my Sunday to myself. It was nice to hear a few new folks today and to hear
some who have not visited in a while. With the sun shining longer and at a
higher angle the band is coming to life. The was a solar stream due on the
14th which did help perk up the ionosphere. There was also a rare sight seen
on the sun: a sunspot! A real sunspot. It was from the last cycle but that
does not matter so much as there being one at all ;) Predictions are for a
strong cycle this time around but who knows how accurate that will be.
Predictions of solar activity are very much in their infancy. Maybe in another
few cycles they will work out the theory a bit better. For
now we are simply plotting points on their diagram.
On to the list =>
On 14050 kHz at 2300z:
W6ZH - Pete - CA - K2 - 5138 * QNI #160 *
N0SS - Tom - MO - K3 - 008
AB9V - Mike - IN - K3 - 398
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422
W0NTA - Dick - CO - K3 - 1208 QNI #85!!!
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K3 - 642
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K3 - 1183
W6HPK - Steve - WA - K3 - 365
K7SJ - Roger - WA - K3 - 75
AB2ZI - Kevin - NY
AE6IC - Fred - CA - ? - 2241
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798 * QNI #155 *
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457 ** QNI #265 **
WS7L - Carl - OR - K3 - 486
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866
Hopefully there are no mistakes in the list but if there are please send me
the corrections via email. Pete, you have two K2s I am unsure which one is QRO
so I picked the later model. Fred, AE6IC, I did not hear which rig you were
running but the serial number could fit into either the K2 or K3 series. I
have not heard a K1 in a while but with the coming spring more folks will be
working from the field and the K1 is an excellent rig for that activity.
Speaking of which QRP to the Field is coming up again this year. That is a fun
contest and allows us to get out into the country and get the kinks out of our
field gear and out of our winter lulled bodies. I know there is a problem with
their website due to ISP problems but the news will pop up on QRP-L soon so
stay tuned.
Until next week stay warm and stay well,
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS (Net Control Operator 5th Class)
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