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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Elecraft" <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
