A very late Good Evening to you, It has finally happened, I have gone a full week without having to start a fire to stay warm. It was chilly many times but I found another way to keep the house warm until the sun heated the roof enough. Today the temperature rose above 70 again and I think for the next couple of days it was stay in the low 70s before creeping back down. It dried out enough for me to get into the forest and start cutting firewood. I have enough wood remaining to get me half way through the winter unless I have to start more fires this summer. What a strange year it has been. I hear stories about how hot it is but I have yet to experience any day I would call hot. Last week's 77 on Sunday was the hottest I have gotten all year and that would be cool for most of you. Even though I have not had any rain this week I did get precipitation yesterday morning when the fog was so thick it caused the trees to rain on me. The roads were completely dry unless there was a tree directly overhead. The fog was so thick I could not get a connection to the tower where I get my Internet feed until 9 AM when the sun started to burn off the fog.
Propagation yesterday was great at times and during the rest of the week it was good. I finally got the firmware upgrade zip file moved over to the K3 so now I can access the menu command which allows me to run APF. In fact I needed to do nothing to get it other than the firmware flash. When I checked the menu I found APF had already been chosen. I tested it and found it does work rather well if you can handle the ringing it adds to the signal. Sounds much like closing the DSP filters down extremely tight which I assume is what it does with one button hold. But when the signals fall below the noise floor even a ringing signal is better than none at all. I expect it will come in handy during the fox hunts. I found it was unnecessary during my regular skeds this week because the signals had improved markedly from last week. Now that the sun is waning into autumn I expect propagation will keep improving. If anyone is interested in acting as a relay station on either net please email me. I will turn the net over to you for a few minutes so you can call areas in my skip zone. It sure would prove helpful to those I cannot reach directly. Please join us tomorrow afternoon and evening. 1) Hail signs (first letter or two of the suffix of your call) 2) NCS help (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help) Sunday 2200z (Sunday 3 PM PDT) 14050 kHz Monday 0000z (Sunday 5 PM PDT) 7045 kHz Stay well, Kevin. KD5ONS - ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html