Good Evening,
Both bands were weak, with noise and QSB. But I was moderately
successful given the conditions. One strange thing, NO8V was stronger
than either K6XK or K4TO. That's just not normal :) I did hear some
ESP code on 20 meters but not well enough to convince me it wasn't just
in my head. It happens now and then. Often when I'm working and a
squeaky fan is on.
I sat down to start the 40 meter net and I listened for a while. To
nothing. Not one sound. I looked out the window and found the antenna
still up. I checked the switches and the antennas were both online.
There was just no noise at all on 40 meters. Two weeks ago that meant I
worked no one. I called CQ and K6PJV popped up; weakly, but there.
Dale was spending the day inside where it's cool with his KX3 by his side.
On the next call I copied M0YK M0YK M0YK. I stared at the paper
trying to figure it out. With code this good why hasn't he upgraded to
a G call? Then W0YK called again so I could hear the initial dit :) I
gave Ed a 329 and he proceeded to tell me he was on K4 number 2. The
second K4 to check in to ECN and it's number 2? The first K4 was when
K6KR checked in last year. I don't think I got his SN but I am sure
#001 is in Wayne's hands. The K4s sound good guys.
Brian checked in with a weather report much like mine. He lives
closer to the ocean but the Pacific has been socked in for the last few
weeks. The clouds just comes inland a bit farther up here. He was
working on a clean sweep of the 13 colonies contest. He needed a couple
more on CW.
On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z:
NO8V - John - MI
K6XK - Roy - IA
K4TO - Dave - KY
On 7047.5 kHz at 0000z:
K6PJV - Dale - CA
W0YK - Ed - CA
K0DTJ - Brian - CA
Writing parallel code is getting easier. Now to learn how to tune it
for best performance. If done well you can achieve teraFLOP
performance. If done poorly you can do worse than brute force on a
CPU. Maybe another two weeks of study to mount the initial learning curve.
Until next week 73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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