Good Evening,
There is a local station playing music from the '80s in the background. I
have not heard The Clash or The Ramones in a long time. This is relaxing
compared to listening to the QRN on 40 meters :) Hopefully they will play the
Plasmatics soon, I miss Wendy. However, the nets were OK but not great;
conditions were marginal once again. On 40 meters there was one guy calling CQ
with a drifting rig. He would start out far below my frequency and while he
was calling the rig would drift until he was gone again on the high side. I am
not sure where his receiver was tuned or whether he had QSK but he never did
hear me respond. You have to love tube gear; I would have preferred a little
chirp though ;)
From the reports I gathered it looks like spring is slowly coming across the
continent. I think I may have had the only snow this week. Even the folks in
Colorado and Alaska did not report any, just here. I had a few daffodils
zapped by cold. Maybe I should cut them and put them in a vase. Then I can
sneeze for a week from all the pollen :) But, Pat likes them so what's a
little sneezing?
On to the lists =>
On 14049 kHz at 2300z:
N0SS - Tom - MO - K3 - 008 *** QNI #305 ***
K9DMV - Joe - IL - K2 - 5628
NO8V - John - MI - K3 - 820
K1THP - Dave - CT - K3 - 686
N6IB - Ron - CA - K3 - 1873
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K3 - 642
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K3 - 1183
K9ZTV - Kent - MO - K3 - 21
KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798 * QNI #165 *
W9FFU/7 - Glenn - WA
WB5BKL - Nick - TX - K3 - 231
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866
On 7044.5 khz at 0100z:
K6PJV - Dale - CA - K3 - 1183 * QNI #120 *
N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866
K9DMV - Joe - IL - K2 - 5628 QNI #50!!!
NO8V - John - MI - K3 - 820
N0TA - John - CO - K3 - 994
W7KTE - Herb - OR
W6NF - Jack - NV
Now that Ron, AC7AC, is on the coast I no longer get calls from Forest
Grove. That changed this evening when I asked W7KTE his location. Forest
Grove to me on 40 meters. I do believe I have seen that call on a license
plate while out driving. Once again K6PJV buzzed my headphones. A very
distorted signal but I know it is not his rig; he is simply overloading my
phones! Maybe I should turn AGC back on. But the signal to noise ratio seems
better without it in the way.
Until next week stay well,
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS (Net Control Operator 5th Class)
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