Good Evening Folks,
I hope your Christmas has been pleasant and safe. Sam and I had fun
getting our chores done. He sleeps and eats, I do the work. I think he
likes it that way :) Elk back strap steak for dinner was a good break
between the nets. It rained most of today after starting last night. The
very last of the snow is gone up here due to that rain and the
unseasonable warmth. It got to 57 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday and stayed
warm well into the night. I had to damp the fire to not cook myself out!
The nets tonight were fun. A little work but fun. Ron, my neighbor
down in Forest Grove, thinks my G5RV works better on 20 meters than on
40. Then he is about ten miles, as the crow flies, away. If I had to
drive there it is almost twice the distance but you simply cannot get
there from here ;) Twenty meters had a little QSB but forty meters had a
lot of it. I had to wait for callsigns to build up over a few repeats for
a few of you. I do not believe Sam and Randy could hear each other
because I was getting a strange KL7TQV call sign ;) But it all worked
out. Randy was a bit weaker even though he is closer. It may be because
he was QRP. I am not sure if the toughest copy was Rick or Pat. Each of
them gave me a problem on 20 meters. QSB mixed with QRP signal strength
was causing Rick's signal to run at ESP or slightly better readings. Pat
had strong QSB on him but I think he is my DX station for the evening. I
am not really all that far from Palmer, Alaska so Rick is usually pretty
easy.
On to the lists.
On 14050 kHz at 2400z:
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K2 - 1031
AC7AC - Ron - OR - K2 - 1289
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798 QNI #25!
K4BEH - Pat - GA - K2 - 5061
KT5E - Jay - CO - K2 - 5037
On 7045 kHz at 0300z:
AC7AC - Ron - OR - K2 - 1289 On a bug
KL7V/5 - Sam - OK - K2 - 3158 Also on a bug
K7TQ - Randy - ID - K2 - 213 QNI #5 running 5 watts to a 2 element
Yagi-Uda
Total check ins to the Elecraft CW Net is now exactly 1900! Thank you for
your support over the years. This may become habit forming :)
Merry Christmas to each of you and Happy New Year too. Next week we will
cross into the new year according to Greenwich Mean Time. When I start
the 20 meter net those Londoners will be ringing in the new year. At the
time of the forty meter net the new year will be across the Atlantic into
Eastern Brazil. Most likely by the time I get the report done it will be
in Newfoundland. Nothing like Amateur Radio to get your geography
exercised!
Thank you and good evening,
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS (Net Control Operator 5th Class)
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