Good Evening,
After fighting with two computers and giving them both a good talking too I
am now at the report. I had to shake my finger at one and tell it to get
squared away or it would get nuked. I probably should zap the OS and move to
something a bit more robust. I am thinking of
Good Evening,
A day late but there was no emergency. I just got tired and went to sleep
very early last night. I think the never ending snow storm took its toll. If
it had accumulated there would be quite a pile right now but the snow level
keeps rising and falling. One minute it is
Good Evening,
It took a while after the second net for my hearing to come back! A couple
stations were so loud they were extremely difficult to copy. The front end of
the rig was getting hammered as was my hearing. They could have turned down to
5 watts or less and been much easier to
Good Evening,
Even though the signals were strong on 20 meters the coverage was spotty. I
could hear Florida great but Georgia was gone. I could hear Indiana and
Michigan well but Minnesota was gone. North Dakota was hard but Wyoming was
great. However, I got South Dakota and then
Good Evening,
It is just turning from dusk to dark. There is some snow left from the
multiple snow storms I have received over the last week but the forecast is
for warmer weather and even some sun later in the week. One brave daffodil is
about to burst open but it has been holding off
Good Evening,
No mention of my allusion to Jim Reeves on the net announcement. Hmmm... I
may need to start quoting 17th century poets again :) I had to check my rig
when I moved to 40 meters. I thought I had bumped something because the tuning
was way off on my antenna and the noise level
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was very quiet today while forty meters had its normal amount
of QRN. A little QSB was on many signals and the few operators where I did not
have it reported hearing some on mine. However unsettled the ionosphere may be
it provided great signals from all over.
Good Evening,
Both nets went well. A little QRM on them but the contesters did not break
the rhythm of our call and response. Each bands was medium quiet with good
propagation. Temperatures were warmer across the continent too. Both Alaskan
stations I heard were quite loud even with my
Good Evening,
A piece from West Side Story on the radio while I type; thanks Lennie! Both
nets were pretty good though I received comments that 40 meters was going to
get better as the night wore on. Now I am reading of experiments to test the
waters above 7100 kHz for a new QRP watering
Good Evening,
The bands were good tonight. It was mentioned to me that the turn out today
may be lighter than normal since there is some game going on. Hmmm... turn out
was pretty good even with that little game. Geaux Saints :) The was some QSB;
at times of two different types: slow and
Good Evening,
Both nets ran fairly well. A little QSB on each but the noise levels were
much lower than they have been in quite a while, especially on forty meters.
It was pleasant not having to worry about digging under the noise by cranking
the gain levels to where it hurts. I did go
Good Evening,
It has been quite a while since twenty meters has sounded so good. For the
first ten minutes I each call up was followed by a single toner instead of
characters. I could only copy the folks at the end and then only a character
or two. I may need to reinstitute some method of
Good Evening,
Yes, it is still raining. The weather is testing my new roof to see if it
can find a way in. My skylight appears to be the weak link. Uck! There must
be a way to solve this. But the fire is toasty and my bench has a pile of
projects ready to build. Some kits, some parts
Good Evening,
The nets went quite well tonight. I used the attenuator on both twenty and
forty meters to good effect. Much less fatiguing than hearing the hiss at the
levels I need to run. However there are a few California stations who could
use a dummy load on 40 meters and still make
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was not kind today. I did get a little relay help from Tom
and then he acted as NCS for a bit. Neither of us could hear very well.
Luckily forty meters was much better. The weather reports (except for one 77
degree temperature) was chilly, to cold, to quite
Good evening,
Twenty meters was getting longer as time passed. There was also quite a bit
of noise on it. I worked until I could no longer hear under the noise.
However, forty meters was good until I reached the very same limit. My ears
were ringing after both nets. Luckily I could sit
Good evening,
Twenty meters was noisier than usual. The large coronal mass ejection must
have struck the magnetosphere recently. This bodes well for propagation
though. When the Heaviside layer equilibrates it should support higher
frequency communications. I read fifteen meters has been
What is a K4?
73 de M0XDF
--
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a
man's
foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
-Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1995)
On 14 Dec 2009, at 02:25, Kevin Rock wrote:
On to the lists =
On
David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
What is a K4?
Possibly a K1 driving a K3?
73 de M0XDF
-- The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a
man's
foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
-Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1995)
Good evening,
Twenty meters was weak to me this evening; or at best one way. I could hear
the folks Tom worked but while I was calling those same folks could not hear
me. I seemed to be shooting right over them. The books say propagation should
be reciprocal. In practice, theory is not
Good Evening,
First I must apologize for not announcing the twenty meter net not being
held. There was simply no room. By that time it was much too late to tell
folks it was not going to be held. Then, since the next net was due to start
in only an hour, it made little sense to write an
Good Evening,
The new net times helped a great deal. A bright sunshine filled day greeted
the opening of the first net. The second net had a guest critter. There was a
doe present right outside my window for the entire time. The sun was just
setting when I got the first check in
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was going well until I closed the Tom. He went from decent
copy to ESP in seconds. In an email to confirm a serial number he told me the
very same thing. The band cut off quite sharply. Forty meters, on the other
hand, did not so much cut off as never turn on.
Good Evening,
Both nets were run during noisy band conditions. When a KX1 and a K1 give
the strongest signals one has to wonder what is happening. Scanning the check
in list I notice something odd. There are KX1s, K1s, and K3s, where have all
the 6000+ K2s gone? Maybe we are just in a
Good Evening,
Forty meters was noisy but some of the sounds were rather odd. I was not
sure what I was hearing. Kind of like the inside of an engine room of a ship.
Thrumming sounds all around. The static hiss was high but not as bad as I have
heard. There was a little QSB on both bands
Good Evening,
Another couple of fine nets. Twenty meters worked OK, not spectacular but
OK. QRN on forty meters was loud and then louder as time went by. I read
between the nets that we are being hit by a solar stream. It was noticeable on
40. I tightened up my filters but that only
Good Evening,
The nets went well this evening. Decent propagation but 20 meters did seem
a little long. 40 meters had its normal QRN but the check in count was good.
The weather reports were chilly everywhere except in Georgia and Alabama but
that is to be expected too. What was not
Good Morning,
After losing this once I am now ready to send it. The report landed in
\dev\null for some reason and is now floating in bit heaven. Oh the wonders of
modern electronics! Luckily I had finished updating the database so the lists
were easy to replicate from the log sheets and
Good Evening,
This report is a day late but extenuating circumstances intervened.
However, conditions were good yesterday; especially on forty meters where I was
able to work many locations. Thank you for the continuing efforts of Steve to
make contact from Georgia. It has been a long
Good Evening,
Toward the end of the second net Mike mentioned QRN. At that point I
realized I had been ignoring it the entire time. Yes, there was QRN, but,
since it was 40 meters it seemed normal :) Twenty meters was OK but spotty in
coverage. It seemed rather long too. Weather
Good Evening,
Twenty meters had QSB on most callers though it was productive and fair to
most locations. Weather reports were cooling off from what they had been last
week. I even got a report of rain in California! There were sprinkles up here
but not enough to prevent walking outside
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was weak while forty meters was noisy. This has become
standard lately. But we had a good number of check ins. When I passed the net
to Tom he must have turned on some power because I could not get my phones off
my ears fast enough. I think my ear drums
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:52:33 -0400 (EDT), Kevin Rock
kevinr...@earthlink.net wrote:
Good Evening,
Wynton Marsalis is playing in the background as the sun moves behind the
fir trees. The temperature is quite pleasant with a light breeze. It is
soothing. I am glad, soothing is good after
Good Evening,
Wynton Marsalis is playing in the background as the sun moves behind the fir
trees. The temperature is quite pleasant with a light breeze. It is soothing.
I am glad, soothing is good after getting booted off the air. I am unsure how
to proceed at this point. The operator
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was faint while forty meters had stronger signals and more
storm noise. Luckily Tom was available before he sacrificed some beast to the
BBQ gods! I imagine he is in his Lazy Boy right now digesting! I wonder if he
roasted marshmallows afterwards? Weather has
Maybe our rigs won't be working all that long after all. A dim
memory tells me diffusion rates in silicon are on the order of tens
of years. Maybe if we store our rigs in large Dewars filled with
liquid helium they will last a little longer :) Kevin.
KD5ONS (Net Control
Good Evening!
What a contrast between the two bands. Twenty was weak and noisy while
forty was very, very strong with a little QSB and summer QRN. My walk after
the second net was not to clear my head of heavy QRN but from the very strong
signals. It was a nice walk on a sunny evening.
Good Evening,
Both nets were good though the bands were weaker than they could have been.
QRN from summer storms along with QSB (non-reciprocal of course) were the order
of things. There were only a few reports of cooler weather from North Dakota,
Alaska, and Oregon. It seems California
Good Evening,
Both nets were rather noisy but the second one had more lightning crashes.
I had reports there were storms in the Sierras so that would be why they were
so loud here. Colorado was hot as were reports from California and from my
front yard. Hopefully the rain forecast for my
Good Evening,
The twenty meter net was not so bad considering I was running QRP throughout
the whole thing! I was trying two antennas out as I ran and getting
conflicting reports. Propagation is still magic! Right at the end I thought
about the FOBB I had run earlier in the day and
Good Evening,
The twenty meter net was challenging due to weak signals and QSB. Forty
meters was challenging in another way with heavy QRN covering some signals
pretty well. However we persevered and dug as many stations as possible out of
the muck and mire. Weather reports, except for
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was filled with reports of QSB while I was sending reports of
QSB. Hmmm... reciprocal reception? Maybe it can happen :) There was also
some noise but it did not sound like thunderstorms here; just an overall layer
of static. Conditions on forty meters were not
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Good Evening,
It has been almost an hour and a half since I signed off after the 40 meter
net. My
Good Evening,
The bands were a little strange this evening. Twenty meters was much noiser
than forty meters. Since I do not have much time between nets to prepare and
eat dinner I could not go outside for a quiet break. Luckily when I got on
forty meters the band was simply weak and not
Good Evening,
After the second net I went out for a walk to listen to some quiet. Rick is
sending me some heat from Alaska so it is gettng warmer. I don't think I will
light my fire but I will keep my vest on until I go to bed. Hopefully the
temperature will stay above 50 in the house.
Good Evening,
Conditions seemed pretty good on both bands but the number of check ins does
not mirror this. Twenty meters seemed pretty clear with strong signals from
each person checking in. Forty meters had QSB and some loud QRN from a storm.
I expect those storms will be a part of our
Good Evening,
Bands were tough today. First the WPX folks were everywhere and they moved
right on top of me at times. Luckily I could close the filters down to where
they were not dominant. The second net was filled with a lot of dead air. I
programmed the rig to call CQ and read for a
Good Evening,
Today's nets were filled with lightning strikes from storms across the
continent. Tom mentioned he was awaiting a storm when he made contact before
2300z. Sure enough when I called him a few minutes later he had gone. Later I
received an email from him stating he had had a
Good Evening,
The sun is still shining and the temperature is high. Luckily the weather
will go back to normal soon otherwise we would have fire danger quickly.
Currently it is drying very fast so another couple days of dry would bring out
the firewatch signs; it does feel nice though.
Good Evening,
Once I figured out my high SWR problem the first net went well. I was on
the wrong antenna because I had last used the rig for MARS. After a few
switches were flipped all was in order. I expected fewer check ins because of
Mother's Day but was pleasantly surprised by Pete.
I could copy Tom on 20, but couldn't break the pileup trying to check in.
He might have answered my AC, but there were so many tail enders on top
of his replies that I couldn't tell. He was about QSA4. From here it sounded
more like a single-frequency DX pileup than a net, Hi!
The phone rang
Good Evening,
The nets this evening went rather well. Conditions were not all that bad on
either 20 or 40 meters. On twenty Tom worked a number of stations but I was
neither able to follow along with him nor copy him well enough to receive a
list of his check ins. Thus the ... in the
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
Good Evening,
The nets went rather well today. Strong signals on both kept me turning
down the gain so my ears would stay intact. Some were so loud I was getting
very distorted sounds until I adjusted the gain level. Since I always run with
AF at max I use the RF gain to keep the levels
Good Evening,
Forty meters was normal: noisy and full of QSB :) But it was nice to hear
folks from all over. Afterward I would have enjoyed a walk in the quiet but
the rain was pretty heavy. Guess I need to invest in some rain gear this year
so I can walk no matter what. The heavy
Good Evening,
I am now sure spring is nigh. The QRN on 40 meters was testament to its
imminent arrival. 20 meters had QSB but then so did 40 meters. 20 meters was
quite long because I got HR9 out of the mud. Well actually I got /WQ7R and
Kent got the HR9 part. Thank you Kent! I need a
Good Evening,
Forty meters was loud tonight. Not yet summer but the noise level is
rising. However, contacts were pretty good through the QSB and QRN. Noise was
increasing by the end so I may not have been able to drag out the last few. I
just do not know if there was someone there or if
Good Morning,
Sorry about the late report but just as I was going to send it out last
night it went away. I do not know how or why, it simply disappeared in front
of my eyes; strange. So, instead of creating it again as an email I am
crafting it in a text editor and I will cut and paste it
What operating system are you running on that computer? hi hi...
Mike
WE0H
K2 6698
Linux user of course...hi hi
Kevin R wrote:
Good Morning,
Sorry about the late report but just as I was going to send it out last
night it went away. I do not know how or why, it simply disappeared in
Good Evening,
It was a chilly, wet, and very windy day. I had to check a couple times
whether or not my antennas were still up. I had to check whether or not the
trees were still there!! Branches were flying by but not very big ones just
the kind which are prunings of winter damage.
Good Evening,
Wow! I had forgotten how much fun it was to be at the end of a pile up!
Having two nets really helped as well as good propagation on both of them.
Each net ran for over forty minutes. I did get one complaint: the SSB net had
been cancelled or W0NTA would have had a 3-fer ;)
Good Evening,
After I found an open spot between contesters I started making my
announcement. I was answered immediately by two early callers. They were easy
to copy. Then a couple more called me. By then it was net time so I ran
through the pre-net litany and was greeted by two more
Good Evening,
Conditions during the net this afternoon were challenging. QSB effected all
of the eastern stations, QRN was strong, and QRM from the many contesters was
rampant. I was running with AGC off at first until the pain level got too high
to handle. Key clicks were pretty bad from
Good Evening,
Conditions were good today. The RTTY contest was nowhere near our frequency
as had been feared. That is good. There was some QRM but nothing untoward. I
was getting sunny reports from much of the US except California. The folks
down there were telling me rain, rain, and
Good Evening,
A walk outside just now showed me a bright moon and a sparkling deck. The
heavy mist has turned to frost while the fog has settled into the valleys. The
forecast is for snow until Saturday when my weather site runs off the calendar.
Accumulations are to be only a few inches
Good Evening,
The band was not happy this afternoon. I did not hear much noise, or any
flutter for that matter, but the signals were not as good as they had been
earlier in the week. Even Tom, with his beam and extra power, was not very
strong. I looked at the various propagation sites
Good Evening,
The band was quite happy today! So much so that I was having problems
discerning separate signals ;) More than once I had to call again to attempt
to get one character out of the howl. Stations checked in from Connecticut to
Southern California and from Georgia to Oregon.
Good Evening,
Another nice day in Oregon. Unfortunately WS7L announced he washed his car;
now we must endure five months of rain until spring appears :( Oh well, it was
nice while it lasted! Carl, if you drive up here real quick all the fresh mud
will fend off the rain :) If we could
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was OK tonight. Nothing spectacular but we were able to meet
and greet one another. When I closed the net KL7CW was calling N9OHW so my
goal had been attained. The original purpose for the net was for folks to meet
like minded people. Plus two KX1 guys got to
Could someone enlighten me as to what a 'grader' is please?
--
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion designer (1890-1973)
On 4 Jan 2009, at 03:52, Kevin Rock wrote:
Then, after Charlie the grader guy helped me out with his trusty
grader
David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
Could someone enlighten me as to what a 'grader' is please?
Googling it gave me a selection of photographs. Wonderful thing, this
internet ;-)
73, Pete F5VNB
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On 4 Jan 2009, at 12:33, Peter Connors, F5VNB wrote:
David Ferrington, M0XDF
Good Evening!
First off: the time changes have worked. I get just enough time to fix some
leftovers and eat between nets. If the first one gets any longer I'll be stuck
eating a sandwich. I used to eat a very nice meal prepared by Pat. Then that
changed to me fixing myself a nice meal.
Good Evening,
At long last I have reassembled this computer and its OS. It now has all
the bits (no pun intended) necessary to collect and disseminate email and run
the database software for ECN's log. The computer which was hosting everything
while this computer was having fits is now
Kevin Rock wrote:
Good evening, Happily there were a few folks I could hear. One for
each net to be exact.
I was there for both nets ... exactly nothing heard from 14045 to 14055
and 7040 to 7050.PropFire reported SFI=67 A=1 K=0 SSN=0. There were
signals down around 14025 but not many
Good evening,
Happily there were a few folks I could hear. One for each net to be exact.
It got to the point where I checked the antenna a few times after I had already
checked if it had survived the storms. Yes, it is still there and there is not
much ice on it either. I also programmed
...@mailman.qth.net]on Behalf Of Kevin Rock
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 7:51 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for December 22nd, 2008
Good evening,
Happily there were a few folks I could hear. One for each net to be exact.
It got to the point where
Good Evening,
Neither band was very happy tonight. The first net gathered three check ins
from Indiana, Oregon, and Minnesota. The second net got two from Florida and
California. Forty meters had some ESP stations but I never got more than a
couple letters and then they would change the
Good Evening,
That was interesting ;) Twenty meters was less than optimal whereas forty
meters was just noisy, weak, and filled with QSB. It was also changing a
minute by minute basis; still it was much better than twenty! I know a solar
stream was due to hit the earth in the last week
Phil and Christina wrote:
Hi Kevin,
The last few times I have checked in were with the K3 at 100 Watts.
When I point my quad north I usually can tell that you are in there,
but can't always copy much.
73,
Phil NS7P
Sunday, I couldn't hear Kevin at Z on 20. By 0005Z, he was S-6 and
I
: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:13 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for December 1st, 2008
Good Evening,
The bands were not being helpful tonight. On twenty meters I was able to
gain a few checkins but they were mostly 'local' (OR, AK, and CA). UA0IT
Good Evening,
The bands were not being helpful tonight. On twenty meters I was able to
gain a few checkins but they were mostly 'local' (OR, AK, and CA). UA0IT is
probably not local :) [In fact Andy is local, he lives in Magadan.] I'll find
out when I can use the Internet again. Right
Good Evening,
QSB was the order of the evening. Twenty meters had it so bad I thought I
had an intermittent short in my headphones. When I was listening to Tom his
signal jumped up and down in a click-like manner instead of the normal warble
of QSB. On forty meters the QSB was more
Good Evening,
The twenty meter net had some QSB but the forty meter net had QRN, QSB, and
it moved rapidly. As you can see by the lists the locals were the only ones I
heard except for K4BEH who disappeared into the darkness only moments after he
was heard. Kent, K9ZTV, was not strong on
Good Evening,
The time change effected how well the nets worked this evening. The twenty
meter net seemed much quieter, like there was cotton in my headphones. I could
not hear many people calling. The forty meter net was a little easier but only
because Tom could work many stations. I
What time does this net meet?
Adam
ka7ark
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2008
On 14050.5 kHz at 2255z:
On 7044.5 kHz at 0200z
Good Evening,
When Dale said the band (40) would go long shortly he was correct. In only
about ten minutes the band flew eastward and then out over the ocean. I bet I
could have waited a few minutes and worked EU :) But there were a fair number
of check ins none the less. Folks east of
Good Evening,
It was pleasant to have two good bands this evening. Neither of them was
very noisy and copy was pretty good. QRN was low and QSB was almost totally
absent. It does sound like autumn is well underway across the northern tier of
states except for Alaska. They seem to be a
Good Evening,
Twenty meters was pretty good and forty meters was noisy but not too bad
either. Actually forty meters was not as loud as I have heard it. I just went
outside to cool down. The temperature is going up outside in preparation for
the next storm so the fire is putting out more
Good Evening,
Forty meters was not too noisy tonight; that was nice! It did take some
effort to work stations however. Luckily Tom was available tonight and he got
over half of the stations on the lists. Having a rotatable beam on 20 meters
and power on both bands does make a difference.
Good Evening,
Both nets went very well tonight. I had no QSB on anyone but there were a
few comments of it occurring on my signal. QRN got bad on 40 meters but it
waited for a little while. QRM was bad at times on both nets. Tuners and
folks calling across me happened more than once but
Good Evening,
Two very good nets. Conditions were good tonight on both 20 and 40 meters.
I was able to drag in Kristinn at a 339 tonight with a little QSB. Noise on
both bands was way down. I only went outside after the second net to get a few
loads of wood to dry. It is getting dark
Good Evening,
I do believe forty meters will be the death of me! Well, at least of my
hearing ;) It was very loud tonight. The second half of the net had most
operators working beneath the noise. There seemed to be a long line of
prospective check ins too. I just got back from a walk
Kevin Rock wrote:
During the twenty meter net there was some
sort of contest going on but I never found which one. I looked at
the contest calendar: www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php
but it was not listed. Luckily the QRM was not too bad.
FWIW, couldn't find the 20m net
Good Evening,
The forty meter net was not all that loud tonight. I did take a break after
it though to go outside. The black cat gave me a look so I went back inside
and got a knife and a box. He now has his very own cat house. Looks more like
a cat trap but I think he will adjust :) It
Good Evening,
Forty meters was once again interesting. Signals were anywhere from S0 to
S9 but QRN went from S5 to S7. I walked outside after the second net and could
barely hear the rain falling around me. I saw the cat making noises but did
not hear him. Kind of like the day after a
Good Evening,
The forty meter net had some very odd sounds tonight. After I passed the
net to Tom I was able to listen more. It sounded like a flock of high pitched
geese flying by at intervals. I have never heard anything like it before. At
first I was having a very hard time copying
Kevin wrote:
Now a question to you all, check ins and prospective check ins alike: how
fast should we run the net? A few years ago Tom and I agreed to have me limit
my speed to 20 wpm while he varied his speed both up and down. Lately Tom has
been recuperating while I run the nets by
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