[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement part three

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
   There was another short lived sunspot from cycle 25 this week. That's two in less than a month.  I sense a trend.  Maybe this spring we'll see a flowering of new spots. Please join us tomorrow on: 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday  (2 PM PST Sunday)  7047 kHz at z Monday  (4 PM PST Sunday)

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement part two

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
   A note on our Elecraft CW Net exchange.  Since it is a directed net I call for check ins then work each in order.  I send a signal report and pass control to the operator.  They send me a signal report and whatever it is they want to talk about and then pass control back to me.  Weather

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement part one

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Loggers moved in early Monday.  Today I am hearing the beeping like after a CW contest.  Each time the harvester moves forward or backward there are a series of blasts from the air-horn.  The logger told me it is fed directly from the hydraulic cooling system's air pumps. 

Re: [Elecraft] Test test test test

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
I am getting short emails posted but never the announcements    Kevin.  KD5ONS On 11/17/19 11:04 AM, kevinr wrote: Will this email get posted on the Reflector? Kevin.  KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net

Re: [Elecraft] Reflector email problems

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
Were you able to see my net announcement either from last night or today?    73,   Kevin. On 11/17/19 11:07 AM, Rose wrote: FWIW, I'm not aware of missing postings, including yours. All appears normal here. 73 Ken - K0PP On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 12:01 kevinr <mailto:kev...@coho.net>&

Re: [Elecraft] Reflector email problems

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
/19 11:01 AM, kevinr wrote: I have not seen any of the messages I have sent to the Reflector posted in the last two days. Is there a problem with the Reflector?    Kevin.  KD5ONS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net

[Elecraft] Test test test test

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
Will this email get posted on the Reflector? 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

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement test SIX

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Loggers moved in early Monday.  Today I am hearing the beeping like after a CW contest.  Each time the harvester moves forward or backward there are a series of blasts from the air-horn.  The logger told me it is fed directly from the hydraulic cooling system's air pumps. 

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement 4th attempt

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Loggers moved in early Monday.  Today I am hearing the beeping like after a CW contest.  Each time the harvester moves forward or backward there are a series of blasts from the air-horn.  The logger told me it is fed directly from the hydraulic cooling system's air pumps. 

[Elecraft] Reflector email problems

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
I have not seen any of the messages I have sent to the Reflector posted in the last two days. Is there a problem with the Reflector?    Kevin.  KD5ONS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft

[Elecraft] Fwd: Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-11-17 Thread kevinr
This message never got posted on the Elecraft reflector.  I sent it last night but it never showed up.    Kevin.  KD5ONS Forwarded Message Subject:Elecraft CW Net Announcement Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 20:28:53 -0800 From: kevinr To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-11-16 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Loggers moved in early Monday.  Today I am hearing the beeping like after a CW contest.  Each time the harvester moves forward or backward there are a series of blasts from the air-horn.  The logger told me it is fed directly from the hydraulic cooling system's air pumps. 

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-11-10 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    QSB needs to have a metric associated with it.  Today it was slow and covered about 4 S units.  On some ops it was as deep but there was less variation.  The fluctuations were never fast enough to cut up characters so copy was easy enough.  On twenty meters reports were S6 at

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-11-09 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,   It was cool and sunny this week, perfect for splitting wood and marking the last property line.  Now it is foggy, wet, and cool. All that firewood makes a cozy fire.  The loggers have moved in some heavy equipment with more due on Monday.  For the next month I won't need to

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-11-03 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,   QSB was more intense this week.  S1 to S7 reports were common. There were also many contesters passing through.  I was able to find open frequencies though and held them, more or less, for each net.  Mostly mild weather with one report of snow.  From what I have read the fires

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-11-02 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Remember the time change this week.  Both nets will start an hour earlier if you use your local time as a reference.  But if you use UTC to reckon time there is no change.  I tried this last year and it better fit the propagation than did the previous method where the local

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-10-27 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    QSB was very slow and not very deep; a little faster on forty meters.  Both bands were quiet, so quiet it wasn't easy to find anyone.    The smoke and fires are creating lots of problems in California.  Hopefully the recent cold front will reach them and slow the winds.  

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-10-26 Thread kevinr
Good Evening, The time change is next week, November 3rd.  I'd just as soon they left it in either one place or the other and never changed it again.  This time of year it's difficult to tell if it's day or night anyway :)  However, there was a little sun this week.  The blue sky was visible

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-10-20 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Both bands were fairly quiet with little QSB.  It was nice to hear about sunshine when I was sitting in dense fog.  By the way I checked my stereo and found I had heard the CW signal when I was listening to 910 AM.  910 and 1817 kHz are related.  Now to check K7RAT's

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-10-19 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I was listening to the ALCS game 6 on 750 AM.  It was loud but I kept hearing tones.  I thought I was imagining CW from the noise.  It wasn't repeated often enough to catch more than a character or two once or twice an inning.  Then in the 4th I got K7??T.  I put that into

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-10-13 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Conditions are holding at less than desirable.  QSB was less which normally means the sun is quiet.  The lack of signal strength enhanced that assessment.  Twenty meters was shorter this week.  Normally California is too close.  But Texas and Nevada on forty meters was a

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-10-12 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    A cool week let me process more wood.  Four truck loads and I am only half done.  The woodpeckers enjoy when I peel off the outer layer of bark.  They find all sorts of tasty things to eat. A hungry gray jay found its way into the house and tried all of the windows to get

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-10-05 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The cool weather has brought the mushrooms to life.  I hiked to the SE corner of my land and found many species ripening.  One area was carpeted with chanterelle mushrooms.  They were easy to spot now that the ferns are down; a bright gold against the brown background.  I

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-09-29 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Twenty meters was more surprising than last week.  My first call got no response.  But the second one brought Roy, K6XK.  I called for more but again no response.  I should have known it would be tough.  I started the net on 14050 but had someone ask if the frequency was in

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-09-28 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The seasons are progressing rapidly.  Only a few days into autumn with frost a day away.  Even though I have a few grasshopper tendencies mostly I'm an ant.  Multiple piles of wood just need to get to the house.  When the frost knocks down most of the ferns I can find them.

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-09-22 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,   I had to move from the announced frequencies slightly to accommodate all of the contesters on both 20 and 40 meters.  Both bands had a lot of noise but the signals were clear.  Only a few stations were effected by QSB.  The sun angle is changing rapidly as summer departs and

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-09-21 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,   The summer has passed quickly; tomorrow will be the last nets of the season.  Conditions have been improving slightly over the last month.  A stream of solar wind is due on the 23rd, the first day of autumn.  That will help conditions for the rest of the week.    It has been

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-09-15 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Both nets had strong signals with limited QSB.  Some space noise with a little from thunder storms.  Brian checked in to the forty meter net with his KX2 at 10 watts on an AXE antenna.  He was very loud, occasionally I had to turn him down.  I enjoy hearing how all of you are

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-09-14 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Autumn began this week.  Leaves started falling, animals changed behavior, and the spiders got very busy.  The bow hunters are also out in force.  Won't be long before the snow starts blowing.  Next week I plan to move a lot more of the large tree onto a wood pile next to the

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-09-08 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Conditions were different from last week.  The noise was less and the QSB was almost gone.  All the signals I copied were pretty easy to copy.  The problem was those were the only stations I could hear at all.  There was a hint of a sunspot this week but that was not enough

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-09-07 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a good week to split wood.  The deer path was disrupted when this tree came down.  Now they have to walk all the way around it.  It's sad.  So I'm busy giving them more options. Throwing the wood uphill gives me time to think.  More like not think.  Just keep splitting

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-09-01 Thread kevinr
On Behalf Of kevinr Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2019 7:34 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report Good Evening, My ears are still ringing and it has been over an hour since I got done with the second net. At the end I was trying to invent calls out of the noise

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-09-01 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    My ears are still ringing and it has been over an hour since I got done with the second net.  At the end I was trying to invent calls out of the noise.  A solar stream is hitting the earth right now causing lots of noise and QSB.  A few signals were ESP to S6. Luckily the ESP

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Announcement

2019-08-31 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The bear berries are getting ripe.  That means the grouse will soon be out.  The hot weather in the middle of the week excited the spiders into a frenzy of orb spinning.  Always around face level.  Once you clear a trail you may have twenty minutes before there is a new one. 

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-08-29 Thread kevinr
Good Afternoon,    It got hot this week.  As the temperature rose to the mid 90s the humidity dropped from its summer normal of ~ 50% down to 20%. At the same time the wind rose from 5 mph to 25 mph.  I had never seen the fire danger sign increase by two steps in one day until this week. 

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-08-24 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I got to watch a logger fall a very large tree exactly where he said it would land.  He laid it down between two long rows of trees with only a few live limbs broken.  After he left I got out my long tape and a shorter one just in case.  Laying down made it much easier to

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-08-18 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Conditions lately have not been great.  QSB is constant which is an oxymoron.  The noise level is not very high but neither are the signal levels so it's a wash.  The sun continues its inactivity. I was not able to get to last week's net report so we'll start with that.  

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-08-17 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a cool week so I spent my time inside working on plumbing.  I needed to find a tool so went to the shed where they're stored.  Then my eyes wandered to the shelves of books. Three bankers boxes of my Analog collection came in the house with me.  I began reading science

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-08-10 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The fire danger has been very low this year.  I don't think we ever entered a true dry season.  Today it rained like it was the middle of November.  In about two weeks the tree which supports my main antenna has to come down.  I told them to drop it early in the week so I can

Re: [Elecraft] Dedicated FTx Rig

2019-08-10 Thread kevinr
Another way to connect the two worlds of computers and radio would be to add the radio to the computer as a card on the motherboard.  Or plug it into a USB port on a laptop like a flash drive.  It is not quite a dedicated machine to do one thing but you will be able to upgrade the two parts

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-08-04 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Both nets had medium to deep QSB.  Reports of S3 to S7 were common.  QRN was in a steady hiss with a few crackles of summer storms on 40 meters.  Hopefully our pleading to the ion provider did not go in vain.  We may have to sacrifice a metaphor to propitiate it.   I have a

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-08-03 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Each time I walk the woods with another logger I learn a little more about the forest.  They estimate 25 loads of timber and I'll have it thinned.  Alder, cedar, fir, and hemlock.  The market for all of them is depressed but after thinning the rest recover quickly and grow

Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage

2019-07-30 Thread kevinr
Think more long term.  Velocity in Mega-parsecs per millennia.     Kevin.  KD5ONS - On 7/30/19 5:14 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote: Hey! That’s my choice, Furlongs/Fortnight... Chuck Jack Hawley KE9UW Sent from my iPhone, cjack On Jul 30, 2019, at 3:26 PM, rich hurd WC3T wrote: At the

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-07-28 Thread kevinr
Good Evening, Conditions were not good, abysmal comes to mind.  However, the day was not a total bust.  Two flocks of warblers are surrounding the flowering shrubs near the house.  The yellow warbler is fairly common, they got on my life list almost ten years ago.  But there was a new one

[Elecraft] My Elecraft impression

2019-07-27 Thread kevinr
A short note to you-all, Please lend me your forbearance.  Since my introduction to Elecraft products in 1999 I have linked them with outdoor activities.  The smell of the forest is bound as firmly to them as is the scent of rosin.  Whenever I see or hear the word Elecraft I think of working

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-07-27 Thread kevinr
Good evening, Early August in Northern Wisconsin.  He awoke early, just before dawn.  He yawned his way to the dock as the sky became lighter and got in his canoe. Paddling out to the island in the middle of the lake he woke up. The mist was rising off the water and the loons were calling in

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net .....speed

2019-07-22 Thread kevinr
…..what wpm do you run your net ? Thanks, Tom W4TMW --- Message: 15 Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 19:40:40 -0700 From: kevinr mailto:kev...@coho.net>> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net <mailto:elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement Pl

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-07-21 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Twenty meters was less noisy than forty.  QSB was deeper on the latter too.  Surprisingly everyone on 20 meters reported mild temperatures while on forty meters only two ops reported cooler temperatures.  One was hiding from tourists on a hillside near the Pacific.  The

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-07-20 Thread kevinr
    Good Evening,   The sun has finally pushed the clouds away.  It got warm too. Huckleberries are going great as are the wild strawberries.  I haven't seen the bear again but she would like them; there are even a few salmon berries left.  The coyotes started yipping at the moon last night

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-07-15 Thread kevinr
Good Morning,     I spent an hour hiking the property with another set of loggers.  Three times in one week; I am getting my exercise. Today it was wet so we didn't break trail through the vine maple. Following in the elk paths was good enough to let them see the work to be done.  After this

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-07-14 Thread kevinr
Good Morning, Please join us on: 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)  7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS _ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-07-07 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Roy, K6XK, mentioned not having any earthquakes this week. During my formative years in Wisconsin I had never felt one.  Then in 1972 or '73 the New Madrid fault in Missouri let loose. Instead of working on chemistry problems I was reading Ambrose Bierce in my third floor

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-07-07 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The sun almost developed a spot this week.  Its polarity was for the next cycle.  The solar flux index has been under 70 for quite some time.  But, like fishing, you just have to wait; and keep casting.    Weather remains unchanged from last week, cool and wet with a few

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-06-30 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Conditions were poor.  QSB was deep.  But the thunderstorm noise was not too bad.  I remember the bottom of the last cycle seemed interminable, this one compares to it.  At least the upward path is steeper than the backside.  Now to start seeing improvement.    The folks

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-06-29 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The annual Field Day hiatus has passed.  It has been cool and wet.  But, then, it is not yet officially summer in Oregon.  For that you have to wait until after July 4th.  However, the loggers have been very active.  They're clearing the other side of the top of this

[Elecraft] More than you ever wanted to know about solar cycles

2019-06-24 Thread kevinr
I found this paper and thought some of you would be interested. Warning: things look grim from 2019 to 2055 since we'll be in a grand solar minimum.  Looks like the next three 11 year cycles will not be too good.  Better prepare space for your 160 m antennas. Oscillations of the baseline of

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-06-16 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,   Twenty meters was interesting today.  Signals would appear for a few seconds and then be gone.  But normally they came back again and again.  Reports came in from Alaska to Connecticut, Iowa to California but the closest was from about 16 miles away.  Forest Grove, Oregon sits

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-06-15 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Solar conditions are little different than they have been for weeks.  We're due to enter another stream of ions which will keep us in business for a while.  I will continue switching between antennas to see how they compare.    I mentioned the black bear to my neighbor who

Re: [Elecraft] FIELD DAY PREP

2019-06-15 Thread kevinr
Over the years I have been bitten by some tenacious flying insects.  The tiniest are the no-see-ums.  They will drive you crazy.  The largest were in Arkansas.  I swear their mosquitoes were as large as small sparrows and could take a pint of blood at each involuntary donation.  But the

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-06-09 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    A few minutes after the second net I started dinner.  Then I walked out onto the deck.  I took a few steps when I heard the crack of a branch.  Deer don't do that.  I turned and saw a round black shape which ran like a bear.  Hmmm... black bear, cool.  Not very big but I

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-06-08 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was cool but not very wet this week.  Good for all the hiking it takes to retrieve and rebuild an antenna.  It is a doublet with one leg a few inches shorter than the other.  A portable spar pole was not lowered as the loggers moved it around the mountain.  It was tall

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-06-02 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Conditions were poor.  Many thunderstorms left layers of noise.  QSB was ranging over 5 to 6 S units.  The ionosphere seems to be jumping if not active.   On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z: K0DTJ - Brian - CA K4TO - Dave - KY K6XK - Roy - IA K4JPN - Steve - GA   On 7047.5 kHz

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-06-01 Thread kevinr
Good evening,    It has been a very pleasant week.  Mornings of fog rain and then the sun comes out for the rest of the day.  Plants are growing like crazy.  The biting flies are not too bad but the breeze certainly helps.  They just can't find me to eat me.    I checked both 20 and 40

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-05-25 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,     Writing that always gives me the chills; like Alfred is about to start his monologue.  My parents never should have let me stay up that late.  Scared me silly.  Be that as it may the week has progressed.  Cool, rainy, but pleasant.  K4 chatter remains high as does Elecraft's

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-05-19 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The difference between propagation on twenty and forty meters was amazing.  Normally one predicts the other but not today. Twenty was pretty good while forty was not.  Both bands had strong QSB.  I gave more than one report of S0 to S6.  There were a few thunderstorms but

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-05-18 Thread kevinr
Good evening,    A chilly, rainy week is causing the fir and hemlock to expose new growth.  More shades of green than you can imagine.  The deer are taking advantage of it.  Lots of elk sign too.  Many new birds but most of them are passing through on their way north.  A red shafted flicker

Re: [Elecraft] K4, Spouse, Retirement, Burning Fascination

2019-05-17 Thread kevinr
Just walked into the radio room for a quick button inventory. Power, Band, ATU Tune, A/B, and Spot get used. The rest are just place holders    73,   Kevin.  KD5ONS - On 5/17/19 7:20 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: INT QKH:  "How many knobs does your radio have?" QKH12: "My radio has twelve

Re: [Elecraft] K4

2019-05-16 Thread kevinr
Yes. On 5/16/19 4:32 PM, kb2mj...@att.net wrote: Do you have any documented proof of this, like I did?  73 Jeff kb2m -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of kevinr Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 7:02 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re

Re: [Elecraft] K4

2019-05-16 Thread kevinr
I used the term K4 in 2006.  Pre Nabble.    Kevin.  KD5ONS - On 5/16/19 3:55 PM, kb2mj...@att.net wrote: I think I might have been the first one here to use the phrase 'K4'. I found this from 2010 https://marc.info/?l=elecraft=126615874431045=2 Interesting read for me as I now am

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-05-12 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Conditions were a little noisy, weak, with moderate QSB.  I was hoping for better.  Weather, on the other hand, was great all over.  I plan to spend the week getting my fingers dirty planting seeds and starts.  The birds keep me company with an occasional hummingbird eyeing

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-05-11 Thread kevinr
Good evening,    A hot week caused the fire danger to spike.  The moisture is baking out of the ground, any wind can spread a spark.  Even so there was heavy logging higher up this mountain.  Luckily they didn't start falling trees until 4 AM.  As it dries out they start much earlier.   

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-05-05 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    QSB plus a roaring background made copy interesting.  But with a few repeats things went fine.  Outdoor activities were discussed with food prominent in some of them.  It was sunny here with enough wind to keep the few biting flies off my scent.  Some insects use infrared

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-05-04 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    A recycled sunspot is rising for another pass.  It rounded the limb with a bang sending a CME off into space.  Hopefully it will continue its activity and shoot something in our direction. Weather has been very pleasant.  The moist green palette is being replaced by a

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-04-28 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Both bands had a medium level of QSB; but copy was OK on each of them.  Mostly tales of yard work but Dave was doing antenna work.  He had a much better signal than he did last week.  I had frost last night while Roy had some snow.  I remember skiing in Wisconsin on May 5th

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-04-27 Thread kevinr
Good Evening, The last of the neotenous flowers are blooming before the alder close the canopy.  Hummingbirds have ceased gathering cobwebs from around my windows.  Bracken fern are growing rapidly; not yet unrolling but over a foot tall.  Yesterday they were only lumps pushing out of the

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-04-21 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Twenty meters was noisy but open to the east.  QSB was deep so repetition was appreciated.  Forty meters was also noisy but QSB was deeper, cutting out whole words.  It was fun digging out all of you.  I did have one problem.  I thought I was copying noise. The signal was so

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-04-21 Thread kevinr
Good Morning,    Last week's sunspot is passing over the limb of the sun.  The rest of the surface is blank.  But twenty meters has a roaring sound to it.  Even though the CME thrown by the spot was not aimed at us there are still a few effects from it.  There are a few contests going on but

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-04-14 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Propagation was better this week.  Plenty of noise and QSB but at least signals were present.  S0 to S5 with decent copy.  I did not hear any thunderstorms.  Cool weather reports for the most part.  Lots of yard work and clean up.  Antenna projects will get pushed off for a

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-04-13 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    More birds are returning and leaves are starting to appear. The deer I've not seen in months are right outside my window. They are taking advantage of the winds of last night.  Long strands of lichen which normally hang from the trees blow on to the ground and the deer eat it

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-04-07 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,     I have not been skunked in many years.  But, on 40 meters I was met with dead air after each CQ.   On 14049.5 kHz at 2200z: NO8V - John - MI  healing as his weather improves K6XK - Roy - IA   living the good life with cheap parking AB9V - Mike - IN  enjoying fewer bugs

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-04-06 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    After a rainy week we had a break.  And then more rain.  The weather is back to normal.  Peaceful gloom and the sound of rain drops.  The moss is glowing.  The sun is slightly more active. Who knows how that will effect the ionosphere?  We can find out tomorrow. Please join

[Elecraft] Elecraft Inc. circa 2497

2019-04-01 Thread kevinr
Wayne and Eric are still running the company, both having taken /T//he Elixir/ in 2025.  Elecraft currently generates 12.3 % of the Earth’s gross domestic product. Wayne created the ultimate radio outfit ensemble.  His universal heat modulator layer worn next to the skin to wick off excess

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-03-31 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    QRM got out of hand on the second net.  I just cannot compete with those running power.  But, it is not about competition it's about finding out how you all are doing.  The biting flies are just beginning to dominate the landscape so I'm grumpy :)  (later in the year I'll be

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-03-30 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was nice to have a day of sun.  The forest floor is just starting to green up.  The early plants need to get as much light as they can before the alder leaf out.  The spiders were making their presence felt.  Very few bugs out but they know better than I do about hunting

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-03-24 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Twenty meters sounded like wind driven snow crossing the prairie.  Hissing with some whistling.  At least I couldn't feel the windchill.  Previous to the net I scanned and scanned and scanned finding only two CW signals between 14000 and 14060 kHz. But I was able to work one

Re: [Elecraft] The case against touch screens

2019-03-24 Thread kevinr
I like using a soldering iron and an assembler for my user interface.  They allow me to do low level coding :)    Kevin.  KD5ONS - On 3/24/19 5:55 PM, Michael Walker wrote: I have used all sort of user interfaces. Knobs, mouse, keyboard, touch screens. They all work and do what they need

Re: [Elecraft] Will there be a K4

2019-03-24 Thread kevinr
Hi Eric,    I think one feature would be a built in single board computer.  One with enough horse power to run a Linux OS.  It needs a 1000 baseT connection to the outside world so it can act as another server on your home network.  The advantage being you could write all the necessary

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-03-23 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,   Yesterday I drove from where there was still snow with my snow drops just poking through.  At my neighbor's house about 600 feet lower theirs were blooming.  At about 600 feet below that the daffodils were just opening.  Another 600 feet and I was in downtown Buxton where the

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report (OT now)

2019-03-21 Thread kevinr
Hi Knut,    No, I found the lyrics applicable to my life; the aria has been running through my head for the last two days.  I have been very busy on a project with lots of long sleepless nights. Eighteen months so far and at least one more to go.  But when this is done life will dawn and I

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-03-21 Thread kevinr
Good Afternoon,   Things got very busy for me so this moldered in my files for a few days.  However, Sunday's propagation was not special nor good.  Very weak signals, deepish QSB, and a steady, windy sound. Even on forty meters the normal crowd was thinned.  Hopefully the sun will be more

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-03-17 Thread kevinr
Good Morning,    The snow is slowly melting its way off the land.  I flushed the first grouse of the season who was checking out the newly exposed soil.  The air smells wonderful, no dust, no pollen, no mold.  With the increasing temperature the bugs will soon be here.  Once they get hatched

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-03-10 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Twenty meters had a steady, windy sound to it.  QSB was medium slow but signals were weaker than last week.  Forty meters was stronger but the QSB was deeper.  I was told of thunderstorms in California but could not hear any lightning static.  There were a few whistlers and

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-03-10 Thread kevinr
Good Morning,    Check the new net times.  I wanted to keep the propagation instead of moving the nets.  So I did not change the Universal times but rather the local times.  If I would have used my normal methods the propagation would be much different.    Now, hopefully, there will be some

[Elecraft] Elecraft Net Errata

2019-03-03 Thread kevinr
W5LA should read W5LA - Jim - one state to the right - Louisiana    Sorry Jim,    Kevin.  KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post:

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-03-03 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Twenty meters was weak with a medium level of noise on my end. Out East they were getting hammered by it.  Forty meters had less noise (again from my point of view) but it made up for it with slow and deep QSB.  I gave more than one S0 to S9 report and a few of S2 to S7. 

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-03-02 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Two whole days have passed with no snow fall.  What a relief, February was interminable.  But even with the warmer temperatures it will take a while for all the ice and heavy snow to melt.  It sure is nice to see the sun again.   While the sun remains as blank as it was all

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Report errata

2019-02-24 Thread kevinr
I looked at the map, verified I had it correct, and then promptly typed the wrong state. K4TAX has not moved.  Bob still lives in Tennessee.    73,   Kevin.  KD5ONS  Net Control Operator 4th class __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-02-24 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Both bands had a steady hiss with rapid QSB between a wow and a flutter.  Signals were weaker than last week.  Weather reports were attention grabbing.  I kept hearing the word blizzard.  50 mph with heavy snow is pretty intense.  When lightning and thunder accompany it

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2019-02-23 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Winter had been mild, now that's only a memory.  It has snowed every day for two weeks.  The sun was also experiencing mild weather but now it has a hole shooting ions off into space.  The stream is turning our way due Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. After the aurora

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2019-02-17 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Forty meters was contesters up and down the dial.  And then it all went quiet.  I ran the forty meter net for 28 minutes and worked a nice group of people.  A few of them fresh from the contest others not so fresh after hours of snow moving.  The report of good food in New

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