Ah, yes Ron -- Paper QSLs! On my QRZ page it says "No LoTW, no eQSL and
no Buro." I still revere old fashioned QSL cards, with handwritten
notes and some evidence that our QSO was something more than just "599
TU". Try showing your grandchildren a printout of your LoTW contacts
and see how many oohs and aahs you get ;-)
73, Stan WB2LQF
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
I don't "chase DX" but over the years have had a number of great,
albeit short CW rag chews with various DX stations on a dead band.
Usually the DX responds to my CQ, noting that they were surprised to
hear me because the band seemed dead. So we chat for a few minutes.
Unfortunately (depending upon your point of view) the various spotters
would notice us, alert the 'net and soon there would be tuners on top
of us so we'd QRT. As one DX station noted, "Sigh, here we go
again..." and sure 'nuf pandemonium would erupt on the frequency with
the DX station sending "UP 2 UP 2 UP 2..." while I set down my
'phones, refreshed my cup of tea and wrote him a thank you note on an
old-fashioned paper QSL card.
73, Ron AC7AC
-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
stan levandowski
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 7:54 PM
To: k6...@foothill.net
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Propagation
Well, science provides predictions and suggests outcomes but I'm still
a hopeless romantic who tunes the bands in spite of the numbers.
Tonight I found a completely dead 20M band at 0220Z except for a
single CW QSO in progress between WB6UIA (QRZ says Wyoming) and XE2HOE
in Baja California (La Paz). When they were finished, I gave XE2HOE a
call and got a 579. He was a steady S9 and the guy in Wyoming was S6.
I live in NY, my antenna is a 67' doublet in my attic and my rig is a
KX2 and it was running at 5 watts (I'm 100% CW and QRP).
Afterward, I tuned the band again but heard nothing. Guess everyone
read the prop stats and turned off their radios....
73, Stan WB2LQF
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 09:35 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
There have been a string of M-class flares for the last 30 hours or
so. Initial ones were in the M.8-M.9 range, recent ones somewhat
smaller. A was 8, Kp was 3 earlier this afternoon which wouldn't
normally suggest terrible conditions, but I guess if the ionization
is already very weak, any disturbance can have a large effect.
73,
Fred K6DGW> - Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org
On 7/24/2016 6:28 PM, Kurt Cramer wrote:
Today was the most difficult Elacraft SSB net I have ever seen. Two
nets were running at the same time.. One on the East coast, the
other
on the west coast! They couldn’t hear each other. About half past
the
hour I started hearing Eric in Chicago here in Arizona. I guess
there
were a couple of solar flares.
73 Kurt W7QHD
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