[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

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Good Evening,

    I received weather reports from Alaska to Alabama and from Michigan 
to California.  The coldest was 0 F in North Dakota but Rick did mention 
below zero for his morning low.  The folks in California are basking in 
their early spring.  Here there are tiny bugs in the air so those 
hummingbirds are not far off.  QSB was on everyone.  Sometimes the 
signal would go from near ESP to S8. Luckily it was slow QSB the fast 
fluttering kind really chops up characters.



On 14049.5 kHz at 2300z:

NO8V - John - MI

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K6XK - Roy - IA

KS4L - Randy - AL

K4JPN - Steve - GA


On 7045 kHz at 0100z:

KG7V - Marv - WA

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

KL7CW - Rick - AK

K6PJV - Dale - CA

You folks in the Midwest: bundle up and warm up those shovel arms, you 
are going to be locating your mailboxes tomorrow.


   73,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Cancellation

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Hi Folks,

    I have been very busy this week.  Building a new computer and 
gathering wood before the first snowfall.  So, I missed two facts: 
Daylight Savings Time changed last night & there is this massive ARRL 
Sweepstakes event.  Instead of competing with the sweepstakes I'll split 
more wood and clean my house.


    Until next week,

    Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
   Walking through a temperate rain forest varies from following the 
game trails to breaking new ground.  When you step off the trails you 
can sink a foot or more into the pile of decomposing needles.  If you 
dig into that mass you’ll find a wide variety of fungi busy changing 
needles, dead plants, and branches into soil.  Due to our ecosystem most 
of the nutrients are either in the trees, the plants growing on and 
around the trees, or in that foot of decaying needles; little is 
available from the clay beneath the needle layer.  The number of fungal 
species in this space differs with the age of the stand.  100 year old 
stands of timber have a wide variety of species while younger areas have 
a great deal fewer.


   Some plants are dependent upon the order of the underlying mycelial 
mats.  While plants around a bog require the different acidic and basic 
layers to survive our local Calypso orchid needs a certain series of 
fungal layers to exist.  As my forest matures the diversity increases 
allowing me to look for mushrooms in more places.  As I cut the dead, 
standing trees I buck them in place and hand carry the chunks to a 
road.  The sawdust and slash are left in place as shelter for birds and 
rabbits and to feed the forest floor.  The best reward for my 
stewardship is when the Calypso orchids bloom in late May.  I get paid 
back for all of my careful wood moving.


Please join us tomorrow on:
   14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

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Good Evening,

    QSB, on everyone and everything: QSB.  But the bands were both 
quiet enough to work down to near S0 so I only lost a few letters here 
and there.


Subjects: origin of the word blizzard (from someone who lives them), 
Veerys and their work, overwork of faithful radio amateurs during ECOM 
events, raking leaves, cutting wood, first frost in Texas, K2s vs KX2s, 
and visiting.


On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z:

N8OV (?) - Ned - MI

KN1CBR - Ted - CO

K6XK - Roy - IA

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K4TO - Dave - KY

KG7V - Marv - WA

W8OV - Dave - TX


On 7045.5 kHz at z:

K6PJV - Dale - CA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

W0CZ - Ken - ND

KG7V - Marv - WA

KN5L - John - TX

WM5F - Dwight - ID

W7ARG - Geo - ID

W8OV - Dave - TX


Until next week 73,

    Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
   A very mild, dry week brought color changes to my elevation.  Lots 
of ferns turned gold and red with many other plants yellowing too.  I've 
done my best to modify the elk trails by clearing out dead trees.  They 
had better be patient because it will take another week to buck them all 
up.  With the forest becoming more open I should be able to see them 
more often.


The sun has a few tiny spots so we're dependent upon the solar wind to 
charge the ionosphere.  The forecasts predict them to increase on 
October 31 and again on November 9th & 10th.


Please join us tomorrow on:
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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening

On 14050 kHz at 2200z:

NO8V - John - MI

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K6XK - Roy - IA

K4JPN - Steve - GA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K4TO - Dave - KY


On 7045 kHz at z:

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K6PJV - Dale - CA

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

WM5F - Dwight - ID


Subjects: collecting leaves on windy days, rain, Elecraft's new 1500 
watt amp at Pacificon, fancy little antenna at same location, fir 
needles, QSB, QRN, & QRM, rain, Cal vs AZ, fine weather at most 
locations, rain, changing colors of leaves and ferns, signal reports 
from 1/4 wave verticals, beams, loops, and doublets, as well as 
collecting wood.  We are an eclectic group.


   73,

   Kevin.  KD5ONS  Net Control Operator 5th Class


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
   When I first moved to the Pacific Northwest I had to learn the 
subtle difference between showers and rain.  Rain can start on Monday 
and keep going for the entire week, or more.  Showers admit the 
possibility of cessation.  The probability of seeing the sun during a 
rain storm is at or near zero; during periods of showers the probability 
rises into single digits.
   The sun is still blank but not inactive.  Solar winds are causing 
aurora which means there are some ions reaching the Heaviside layer.  
This is good.  Even though there will be flutter, wows, and all manner 
of odd noises there should be propagation to somewhere.


Please join us tomorrow on:
   14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
  After a cold, wet week the sun is out for the weekend.  High of 60 
today.  Too bad there are not more leafy trees up here because in the 
valleys they are reaching peak color.  I do have a few vine maple but 
the colder air is settling much lower down the mountain so they have yet 
to change.  More rain is due Tuesday but it would be better if it 
traveled a few hundred miles south.  The folks in California could use a 
month of rain.


The sun is blank as it has been for six days.  SFU is at 70 but we are 
getting auroras in the north.  I expect QSB of various types and some 
whistling, crackling, and hissing.  If it were easy it would not be as 
much fun.


Please join us tomorrow on:
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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

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Good Evening,

   Twenty meters was not as open as last week.

On 14050.65 kHz at 2200z:  (WES contesters were packed like fish in a tin.)

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K4JPN - Steve - GA

K4TO - Dave - KY


While forty meters was much better than last week.

On 7045.5 kHz at z:

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6PJV - Dale - CA

WM5F - Dwight - ID

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K4TO - Dave - KY

W8OV - Dave - TX

WI6O - John - CA


As fall progresses into winter I hope both bands improve.

   Until later, 73,

   Kevin.  KD5ONS


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
  A mostly dry week let me cut a lot of firewood.  Falling trees on a 
hill makes it tricky to read how they will fall. But the laws of physics 
can be bent.  A come along helps a lot.  Moving all the wood is a great 
way to get a little exercise.  I am sleeping well.


The sun is almost blank today.  SFU is above where it has been stuck all 
summer at 83.  Maybe contacts to the east and south will be possible again.


Please join us tomorrow on:
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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

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Good Evening,

    40 meters was not as strong as 20 meters today.  But on 20 meters 
the band was open to all over the US and up into Canada. Today was the 
first time I have worked the Yukon Territory. Whitehorse was easy copy 
from Oregon.



On 14050 kHz at 2200z:

NO8V - John - MI

W6HV - Troy - CA

W0CZ - Ken - ND

K6XK - Roy - IA

K4JPN - Steve - GA

VY1JO - Scott - YT


On 7045 kHz at z:

K6PJV - Dale - CA


Lots of noise on both bands; storm noise and space noise combined.  QSB 
was a fast flutter on top of a slow wave but copy was good all around.


Hope to hear you all again next week.

   73,

   Kevin.  KD5ONS


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
  After a wet rainy week the sun came out.  We are gradually working 
our way into the rainy season :)  The forest is green except for the odd 
deciduous tree; they are turning gold and red.  When the sun pops out 
the foggy view is pleasant.
   Our sun has repopulated itself with spots.  The SFU is up but so is 
the noise.  Time to test our hearing against the crackling sounds.  I 
keep checking for a time change but that has to wait.


Please join us tomorrow on:
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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

After a week of rain the sun has returned.  Only now the sky is blue and 
the smoke is gone.  What a summer of fires. Luckily the rain was heavy 
enough to allow a lot of fire fighters to go home.


Tomorrow the nets may be farther from the noted frequencies due to the 
ongoing RTTY contest and secondary use by the folks in Mexico for 
earthquake traffic.  Search lower because the RTTY folks push the upper 
frequency boundaries.


Please join us tomorrow on:
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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The weather has turned.  It may be the start of the rainy season 
tomorrow.  At least the forecast has no breaks in the showers for the 
'known' future.  The sun has gone back to a more quiet state; at least 
until that big sunspot rolls around again.


Please join us tomorrow on:
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    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good evening,

  The sun has been pretty active this week.  Repeated solar flares have 
raised the solar flux to 129 and higher.  The auroral oval has calmed to 
where it's not radiating much noise.  A few days back it was very loud 
here.  Propagation should be favorable tomorrow.
  Some much needed rain came a few days ago.  Now it is cool and the 
fires have slowed down.  Smoke was very thick on Monday with ash piling 
up on the deck.  I'm glad it was not from Mt. St. Helens.


Please join us tomorrow on:
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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] Items you think you can depend on

[kev...@coho.net]

But how do you un-ionize an electron?

    Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 9/6/2017 8:35 AM, David Woolley wrote:


But the electrons only get less than a micron back before they get 
sent forward again, and they've only had about 1/120th of a second to 
rest. You are lucky they are not unionised, with those working 
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Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report errata

[kev...@coho.net]

Between K0DTJ & K6XK there should be a line with

K4JPN - Steve - GA

Whoops.

   Kevin.


On 9/3/2017 5:25 PM, kev...@coho.net wrote:
Twenty meters was more open than it has been in months.  I had strong 
signals from all over and weak signals from even more places.  The 
band was moving quickly though.  I'd start off hearing an S7 station 
only to close with an S2 signal.  QSB was on all reports to me but 
only on a few from my end.  It ranged from a fast flutter to a slow 
ocean wave.  Noise came in a variety of types too.  Whistlers, to 
walls of moving static, to a steady hiss followed by the crackle of 
storms.


  On 14049.5 kHz:

NO8V - John - MI

WOCZ - Ken - ND

AB9V - Mike - IN

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6XK - Roy - IA

AC5P - Mike - OK


  On 7045 kHz:

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6PJV - Dale - CA

WM5F - Dwight - ID

The smoke is steady, the heat is too, send rain, please.

    73,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

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Twenty meters was more open than it has been in months.  I had strong 
signals from all over and weak signals from even more places.  The band 
was moving quickly though.  I'd start off hearing an S7 station only to 
close with an S2 signal.  QSB was on all reports to me but only on a few 
from my end.  It ranged from a fast flutter to a slow ocean wave.  Noise 
came in a variety of types too.  Whistlers, to walls of moving static, 
to a steady hiss followed by the crackle of storms.


  On 14049.5 kHz:

NO8V - John - MI

WOCZ - Ken - ND

AB9V - Mike - IN

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6XK - Roy - IA

AC5P - Mike - OK


  On 7045 kHz:

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6PJV - Dale - CA

WM5F - Dwight - ID

The smoke is steady, the heat is too, send rain, please.

    73,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good evening,

   The sun has some sizeable spots.  The solar wind is causing strong 
auroras. Twenty meters should be open and noisy.  After a week of clear 
skies the smoke is back.  During the middle of the day the sky is an odd 
orange color.  The fir trees which are normally green have a gray cast 
to them.  The birds seem to be effected.  The normally ravenous Gray 
Jays just looked at the food I offered them.  Until the Steller's Jay 
swooped in; then they mobbed him.


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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
    Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good evening,

    It pays to know the produce manager of your local store.  He had a 
fresh batch of Hatch chilies and made sure to tell me.  Today I roasted 
four of them while I toasted tortillas.  The beans were already on the 
stove.  The smell was fantastic but the glow after eating three of them 
is something else.  Kind of like XC skiing for twenty miles or so when 
the endorphins kick in.


   The sun has some spots and a little activity.  Solar flux is not 
high but enough to support some communications.  After an oddly chilly 
Monday the temperature has risen to a pleasant 80. Nights are in the low 
50s.  Makes stargazing more pleasant with little wind the stars are 
easier to magnify.


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    7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
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Re: [Elecraft] Eclipse update

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Make sure to have your old pots and pans ready.  If the eclipse is 
lasting too long you can scare the dragon into spitting out the sun by 
banging on them loudly.  Belt & suspenders for the ECOM folks.


    73,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 8/19/2017 7:35 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
First hand very very early report:  Bright sun, very round. 
Semicircular black disk begins to cover the sun, more and more, 
eventually just a teeny tiny speck of the limb remains and is very 
bright, then night.  Then the video tape runs backwards and it's day 
again.  If clouds, it just gets dark, then day-ish again. Given the 
physics, they're all exactly alike, and will be for perhaps 600 
million years when the last one will occur.  Like snowflakes ... seen 
one you've seen 'em all, notwithstanding the urban legend that every 
one is different.


We'd still have driven to Oregon if it would have worked out. [:-)


On 8/19/2017 2:06 PM, Logan Zintsmaster wrote:
We traveled to South Carolina to add in some family time. Drove from 
Beaufort to Columbia to Anderson (near Clemson). Some traffic around 
Columbia otherwise smooth sailing. Since you West Coast folks will 
see it over an hour before us, I'm looking forward to some early 
first hand reports.


Logan, KZ6O


On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote:

We're our way up I-5 to Corvallis. There's *no* traffic, suggesting 
that all the gloomy predictions dissuaded some potential travelers.


Corvallis webcams showed bright sunshine at 8 this morning. Looking 
good so far.


20 m was quite active in all band segments yesterday. Most of my 
QSOs were on SSB running 10 W to the 4' whip. The KX2's auto-notch 
and filtering helped a lot with QRM.


Signing /7 got me more attention than /QRP

Wayne
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

I must have been two or three years old when I first really experienced 
radio.  I was seated high enough so I could see the back of our little 
Emerson radio.  My mom turned it on and I watched the tubes turning 
orange.  The odd sounds of a warming up radio and then music came out.  
The scent of hot tubes mixed with the smells of my father's 
construction: saw dust and pitch.  Mom told me how the waves in the air 
fed the radio.  DX from all the way across town!  From then on I 
listened to that radio and my brother's shortwave rig all I could.  I 
was hooked.  The magic of waves from the air making music from far away, 
what an adventure.


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    73,
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Re: [Elecraft] Eclipse logistics and em-comm nets?

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
   It has been another very smokey week but there is rain in the 
forecast.  After two weeks of heat (quite out of character for Oregon) I 
was getting used to working in it.  The first week I spent at ground 
level to acclimate but I was on the ladder just yesterday.  The wood 
surely appreciates the new stain; you could almost hear it sigh.
   The solar wind has been resupplying the ionosphere but reports are 
of unkind to poor conditions.  Nevertheless, it always pays to try the 
odd CQ to see if 6 or 10 or 80 is open. You may not be able to sustain a 
sked but there is most probably somebody somewhere who can hear you.


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73,
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

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Well that was fun.  Both nets had alright propagation.  Nothing to write 
home to mom about but OK.  A wide variety of QRN types as well as the 
ever present QSB.  Then there are the tests: a weak KX3 signal from the 
wilds of Minnesota, 400 watts from Central California, and then an ear 
testing 1500 watts from the mother ship.  Listening to the forest is 
always a treat after a summer's 40 meter net :)


On 20m 14050 kHz:

NO8V - John - MI

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6PJV - Dale - CA

K6XK - Roy - IA

W0CZ - Ken - either MN or ND


On 40m 7045 kHz:

K0DTJ - Brian - CA

K6PJV - Dale - CA

K6KR - Dick - CA  testing a 1500 watt amp (it works, my ears are still 
ringing)


WM5F - Dwight - ID


Now to go for a walk and rest my ears.

73,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS

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Good Evening,

This week has been hot and very smoky.  Only today is there enough 
breeze to see the surrounding mountains.  All week it was very calm and 
the smoke thick.  Sleeping is not easy when the smell of smoke wakes you 
up all the time.  Your natural instinct is to find the fire but these 
aren't even close.


The massive sunspot of two weeks ago is back but most of its energy has 
been expended.  Even so the solar wind has not ceased.  The only real 
impediment should be summer storms and just plain weak signals.  
However, you just never can tell.


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73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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Good evening,

   I took a break from painting today to walk around the property 
scouting for next year's firewood.  An area I had thinned under the 
alder had been visited recently.  From the residual scent I could tell 
there had been elk sleeping there within the last two or three days.  We 
have shared land use rights.


The sun has been active but only on the other side.  Our side of the sun 
has been blank.  Though the bands may be weaker the band noise is too; 
as long as you can avoid the lightning crashes and waves of QSB you can 
make contacts.  Weak contacts but they are possible.


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73,
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good afternoon,

  I was high on a ladder scraping my house and birding by ear when I 
began musing how listening is a learned skill.  Perceiving the 
difference between a veery's call and that of a crow or a pileated 
woodpecker is simple; determining which species of finch is a far 
different matter.


The hours spent on my brother's Lafayette receiver learning how to hear 
the weak ones during fading, lightning crashes, and random noises taught 
me to listen thoroughly and over a period of time to discern the 
patterns.  Teaching trained me to parse a student's halting question so 
I could craft an answer to help the class.  Taking notes during a Nobel 
laureate's lecture on creating a Bose-Einstein condensate from his 
collection of rubidium atoms allowed me to ask pertinent questions 
afterward.


Truly hearing the facts from a seriously frightened victim during an 
emergency helped me call in the best and quickest assistance.  However, 
asking a seemingly simple question of my wife and receiving a totally 
orthogonal answer is something no training will assist :)


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73,
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Re: [Elecraft] Fractal antennas

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My lab partner was working on fractal antennas last time I was in 
school.  The lab always reeked of acid fumes from his etching. His 
lowest band was in the 10 cm range; most of his work was above that.  I 
don't know if you could fit one for HF in the room you have on a window.


 GL,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 7/16/2017 4:38 PM, Steve Sergeant wrote:

On 7/16/17 16:16 PM, Emory Schley wrote:

I'm certainly no expert here but a fellow I know once told me that fractal 
antennas were showing up in car interiors because they're efficient, quite 
small and don't use much material to construct. Something about punching them 
out with a die... didn't quite understand what he was saying completely, but 
fractals might be something to look into. Again, I'm unsure about this, but I 
think cellphones commonly use fractal antenna technology, too.

Do you mean, like this?

[
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The dry season must be here; at least it has not rained in over two 
weeks.  Only the morning fog has relieved us from the sight of the sun.  
Not having it for six months a year makes us sensitive to light :)  The 
population of small aircraft has increased.  I live just below the 
aircraft beacon for the area which gets used by all types: commercial 
and military craft as well as the propeller driven and rotary wing types.


Our sun decided to show us a burst of activity.  Only a day ago it sent 
a stream of ions our way.  Hopefully the reactivated Heaviside layer 
will give us some good propagation.


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

It's been a very pleasant week.  It has warmed up a little now; all the 
way to 75 degrees.  The fog comes up the mountain each morning and then 
flows back down a little later.  The trees stay green that way.


Propagation may have improved; I checked Spaceweather.com and found a 
change.  An actual sunspot with the SFU in the 80s. Who knows?  Things 
may work out tomorrow.  Hopefully this email won't take three days to 
reach Elecraft.  Last week that is what happened.


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73,
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

   Field Day was unseasonably hot, at least for this region. 
Temperatures got to 100 even at my elevation.  But it has cooled.  The 
foxgloves in front of the house weren't blooming last Sunday.  Now they 
are 3/4 filled.  Normally they take another month to progress that far.  
Maybe this cool weather will slow them down again.


Propagation was good enough to get me contacts on 15, 20, 40, 80, and 
160 meters.  I tried on 6 meters early on when there was an opening and 
10 meters when that failed.  Even though both bands had no signs of life 
I had to try, you never can tell who is listening.


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73,
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Re: [Elecraft] Newsletter

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The Newsletter came to my inbox, not to my normal Elecraft folder.  You 
may want to check it did not get automatically tossed into the trash.


   73,

   Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 6/18/2017 5:34 PM, Harry Meyer wrote:
i didnt see an email newsletter, how do i get one, didnt see anything 
on the elecraft website


harry kc1tn


On 6/18/17 7:58 PM, MaverickNH wrote:

Me 2, keep'em coming!

Bret/N4SRN



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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

After a very cool, wet week the sun may come out again tomorrow.  It has 
been a long spring this year.  The Doug fir are putting on a lot of new 
growth but it's been too wet to take a decent walk.  Hopefully the 
upcoming change of seasons will finally bring with it the dry period.


Static is not normally a problem here in the Pacific Northwest.  Nothing 
like the torture of walking across carpeting and touching anything metal 
in Albuquerque.  While building my K2 as well as my computers and robots 
I was grounded at all times.  Even moving on my chair was enough to zap 
a FET.  Here the mist keeps static levels very low, even in winter; but 
then I heat with wood which does not keep the house at tinder dry levels.


The sun has not been very active.  But, then, I have been buried in a 
system with virtual destructors giving me fits. This is not just a 
memory leak, it is a veritable flood.  I find debugging multi-threaded 
routines using interrupts easier!  Hopefully the sun (and those 
destructors) will cooperate soon.


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

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73,
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net 15th Anniversary

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Good Evening,

Even more sun and less rain, the dry season is nigh.  The few trees 
which have leaves have them.  More species of birds show up each day.  
After the winter's sparse collection of bird calls the variety of sounds 
is amazing.  But the two pairs of pileated woodpeckers are by far the 
loudest.  Benefits of being on top of the pecking order.


Propagation is still weak even with the sun sending a few storms our 
way.  This net started on June 6th, 2002 so tomorrow will be fairly 
close to 15 years.  Many thousands of QNIs later it has weathered 
changes and propagation cycles but still keeps going.  If you can hear 
me tomorrow give me a call.


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73,
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

It may just be summer.  The sun has come out for four days in a row.  
That's just not common unless it's summer in the PNW. The smell of the 
forest has changed too.  The spice of cedar and terpenes fill the air.  
Lots of new growth too.  The grouse have been pretty common this week 
with the local Pileated woodpeckers keeping up their racket and creating 
piles of tree chunks.


Because of the WPX contest there will be no twenty meter net tomorrow.  
But at z the contest will be done so I can start the forty meter 
net.  There is not a lot of band noise but the contest is bringing out 
lots of stations.  They drift in and out with the QSB.  It's fun to hear 
all of the DX.


Please join us tomorrow on:

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73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] KX2 Firmware

[kev...@coho.net]

I must be getting old.  I really don't remember what I was doing in the 
11th century.


   73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 5/23/2017 5:38 PM, Tom Francis, W1TEF wrote:

Greetings,

I was just looking at the KX2 firmware, Beta and 2.69 and discovered 
that they were built

and released in the 11th Century!! Who knew?!?

**MCU 2.69 / DSP 1.49, Final Release Feb 5, 1017**

**MCU 2.75 / DSP 1.49, April 7, 1017

**Best regards,

Tom, W1TEF
Lexington, SC


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

Spring, with a few sunny days, has brought flowers, birds, and the 
biting flies.  This year's crop of no-see-ums is vicious. I get about 
thirty seconds outside before they start burrowing into the corners of 
my eyes.  Uck!  Anyone from Alaska or Canada know any remedies?


   HF has not been very productive recently.  But today there was a 6 
meter opening which worked its way from East Coast to West Coast.  I 
would copy a call sign and then they would disappear.  But then there 
was the next one to chase.  The QSB sounds different on that band if 
that is possible.


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net 15th Anniversary

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Howdy Folks,

In 2002 I started the Elecraft CW Net to meet people and improve my 
CW.  Over the years I have met many fine folks and lost a few along the 
way.  My CW has improved (somewhat).  The propagation has been poor, 
then better, then good, and now poor again.  I expect that cycle will 
continue long after I am gone.


   The official date would be June 6, 2017 but June 4th is close 
enough.  Hopefully the bands will perk up a bit; the sun does have a few 
tiny spots on it.  Solar flux is marginal but I have been making 
sporadic contact with the East Coast, Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, 
Western Canada, and folks not local to the Pacific Northwest.  While I 
do get the occasional weak check in from Washington and the line of 
sight folks in Oregon the PNW is usually too close for good copy.


   Please think about checking in on June 4th to be part of this large 
group of like minded folks.  Family news, dog health, camping trips, 
fishing, and the weather have all been discussed in the past.  Since we 
all use Elecraft gear we rarely talk about our rigs.  We do discuss new 
gear being offered, stories about repair of old gear, and antennas - 
always antennas.


   Until then,

   73,

   Kevin.  KD5ONS  Net Control Person 5th Class.

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Re: [Elecraft] OT: N6KR (et al) testing KX2 on San Bruno mountain today at 12 PM PDT, ~14.058 MHz

[kev...@coho.net]

You were very marginal copy for the first ten minutes but were getting 
S7 reports from those you worked.  Then you dropped out and I could only 
hear those you were working.  You were not lonely :)


 73,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 5/15/2017 10:34 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:

Hi all,

A friend and I will be deploying our KX2s and antennas at exactly noon today 
from an excellent perch: San Bruno mountain (Just south of San Francisco). This 
will be my first field operation since adding the KX2’s newest firmware 
features (in particular, multiple ATU data sets).

The bands don’t sound all that great, so we could use some company :)  We’ll be 
listening/calling with 10 W on 14.058 or so.

73,
Wayne
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

Please join us tomorrow on:

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7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] A good map to eclipse

[kev...@coho.net]

https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/oregon/

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Re: [Elecraft] OT: Looking for Oregon/Idaho Eclipse accommodation

[kev...@coho.net]

I am finding lots of links with the Sky & Telescope web site.


http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm#Oregon

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/2017-total-solar-eclipse/rv-guide-to-2017-total-solar-eclipse/

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-telescope-magazine/experience-2017-total-solar-eclipse-wyoming/

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/2017-total-solar-eclipse/webinar-2017-total-solar-eclipse/

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-events/solar-eclipse-experience-lowell-observatory/

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/?s=solar+eclipse=


So there are quite a few options for you and your son.

East of the Cascades is your best bet.  High and dry near Madras is a 
good place.  The high power rocketeers camp east of Madras. No, it is 
not pronounced like the city in India.  Think mad as in angry and raster 
as in scan.  Put them together for Mad ras, accent on the first syllable.






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Re: [Elecraft] OT: Looking for Oregon/Idaho Eclipse accommodation

[kev...@coho.net]

Most of Oregon is not along its coast.

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 5/7/2017 8:01 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

Here on the Oregon Coast overcast is common, particularly before noon. The
National Weather Service currently predicts we have a 64% chance of overcast
skies on August 21st, at least in the morning hours.

If we get to see any more than a darkening of the sky, we will consider
ourselves lucky.

73, Ron AC7AC

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Oregon's weather is pretty predictable.  August is in our dry season.
It is very rarely cloudy let alone is the weather inclement.  There is a
very high chance of it being clear during the eclipse.

  73 & Clear Skies,

  Kevin.  KD5ONS





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Re: [Elecraft] OT: Looking for Oregon/Idaho Eclipse accommodation

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Oregon's weather is pretty predictable.  August is in our dry season.  
It is very rarely cloudy let alone is the weather inclement.  There is a 
very high chance of it being clear during the eclipse.


73 & Clear Skies,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 5/7/2017 3:39 PM, David Anderson via Elecraft wrote:

Wayne

I went from Scotland down to Cornwall for the total eclipse of the sun in 1999, 
the only chance in my lifetime to see a total eclipse in the U.K., we were 
fortunate in not having to pay to stay in a hotel, as we travelled down by 
overnight train from Scotland on a special old train run by the steam 
preservation society, arriving at Penzance just before dawn, seeing the sun 
rising before it went behind a band of cloud.

Unfortunately the weather did not oblige and the sun was totally eclipsed by 
that cloud as well as the moon. :-(  However it was still an impressive sight, 
getting dark in the middle of the day, with an eerie silence and a chill in the 
air, the birds went quiet and then started to make a noise again as totality 
passed and the light started to rush across the sea to us. It was also 
spectacular to see 100's of flashes from cameras going off all along the 
headland, presumably people who didn't know how to work their cameras properly.

Once the total eclipse phase was over and we had packed up our camera and 
telescope tripods, the clouds parted so we could see a partially eclipsed sun. 
Oh well, maybe in another lifetime!

One of my fellow workmates who was on that trip was determined to see a total 
eclipse and has been all over the world to try to catch one, I think it took 
him about 4 trips before he was lucky enough.

Wayne, wishing you clear skies for your eclipse.


73 from David GM4JJJ


On 7 May 2017, at 17:00, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote:

Hi all,

My wife, son and I are planning to drive to Oregon or Idaho to view the solar 
eclipse on August 21st. Hotels in the rarified Zone of Totality are either sold 
out or price-gouging. We booked one 50 miles outside the path, just in case, 
but we'd love to find an AirBnB room or other option closer in, if possible.

Anyone have a hot tip for us?

Tnx
Wayne
N6KR


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good evening,

The sun has been active but not overly so.  The SFU hovers around the 
mid to low 70s as it has all winter.  There is a CME due sometime around 
the 10th; maybe that will perk things up a bit.  But you never can 
tell.  Predictions need to be tested.


Please join us tomorrow on:

   14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7045 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] NVIS HF vs VHF line-of-sight & CB

[kev...@coho.net]

One item which rarely makes it onto the ECOM check lists is fitness.  
How many folks are prepared to actually do all the work necessary after 
a major disaster.  The majority of folks would not be able to walk to 
the nearest shelter let alone help others.  We, as a nation, are 
woefully under-prepared for disasters.  The ECOM folks talk about it, 
plan for it, but don't train the public to be in better shape to handle 
any given disaster.  While I have taught many ECOM classes I am never 
allowed to say more than a few words about fitness.  I do it for rehab 
but it has helped me stay safe in the various unsafe times I have had up 
here in the wilderness.


73 & GL,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 4/30/2017 5:05 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
The 1964 Alaska earthquake was a 9.2 centered SSE of Anchorage.  I was 
at Galena AFS at the time, on the Yukon River in the northern interior 
just south of the Arctic Circle. It's fairly flat up there and after 
we realized there was an earthquake, we could watch to the south and 
it appeared that there were ground waves moving rapidly toward us.  It 
ultimately broke off the wooden flag pole in front of the chow hall.


The WW2-era wooden hanger and control tower survived just fine, some 
bookcases toppled and spilled coffee was about all that happened.  The 
reinforced concrete alert hangars ... not so well. Much of the damage 
in Anchorage was the result of liquification of the ancient stream bed 
beneath it.


The effects of any given magnitude earthquake are almost completely 
determined by the conditions at any given place.  We had a couple of 
not-high dipoles and one of those humongous LP arrays for the MARS 
station.  ACS went down, our dipoles worked just fine.  That LP 
monster is basically a poorly optimized 3 element yagi on any given 
frequency and didn't work all that well.


Were I in the EMCOMM business and planning for a major widespread 
disaster situation, I'd focus on the physical aspects of the antennas 
... transportability, survivability, ease of deployment, weight, and 
the like.  The rest will be what it will be, and it will likely be 
enough ... at least until better can be arranged.


73,

Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
Sparks NV USA
Washoe County DM09dn

On 4/30/2017 4:15 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
Right, an NVIS antenna is effectively a Yagi pointed at the sky. So 
put a reflector on the dirt.


The Loma Prieta was a 6.9. The Cascadia area could produce a 9.0. 
Richter is a log10 scale, so that is 100X as strong.


wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
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Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Island & CB in 9.0 quakes

[kev...@coho.net]

More likely is Elecraft Island will be all that remains of California.  
Oregon will have a brand new coast too; maybe all the way into Salem :)


 Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 4/30/2017 4:56 PM, Peter LaBissoniere wrote:

I better order a K3S quick as Elecraft will be toast.

Peter LaBissoniere
k...@wi.rr.com




On Apr 30, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote:

I was at work during the Loma Prieta earthquake. Our HP building (now a Tesla 
building) on Deer Creek Road had hydrogen piping and “HF Waste” piping. That 
was fine, but a 4” main in the sprinkler system broke, soaking lab notebooks. I 
remember planning a route home to Mountain View that did not go under or over 
any bridges. I still had to deal with a water main break.

And then there was Hurricane Betsy when I was growing up in Baton Rouge. No 
phone for 7 days and no power for 10 days. The toppled red oak in the back yard 
was the best tree fort ever.

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)


On Apr 30, 2017, at 3:26 PM, kev...@coho.net wrote:

When we get that 9.0 quake many of my local roads will go away. The gravel 
logging roads carved into the side of the mountain will collapse.  They 
regularly do so during our torrential rain season.  A quake will just make it 
worse.  Plus the number of trees I'll have to cut between here and my mailbox 
will take at least a 5 gallon container of fuel.  Luckily the CB radios will 
still work so I can get the local loggers to carve me out.

However, at that point I'll have to worry about all the bridges between here 
and there.  Only the smallest ones will have a chance of remaining passable.  I 
have charged deep cycle marine batteries and reels of spare antenna wire.  As 
long as I have a roof over my head I'll be able to communicate.  Even then I do 
have a tent to live in until civilization rights itself again.  The local 
grouse, rabbit, and deer population may take a hit though :)

   GL in the big one,

Kevin.  KD5ONS

On 4/30/2017 2:43 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:

The potential Cascadia earthquake could be 9.0. That means that every tower 
will fall, maybe even those built like this CHP/CalOES tower.

http://www.oesnews.com/going-towering-heights-keep-emergency-communications-flowing/ 
<http://www.oesnews.com/going-towering-heights-keep-emergency-communications-flowing/>

That is why I suggested easily erected wire antennas and small beams, like a 
10m Moxon. After the big one, it will be Field Day, not “flip the switch on the 
linear”.

Regular practice with field antennas will be more useful preparation than a big 
antenna farm. Maybe some regular exercises with a Par EndFedZ antenna, or even 
SOTA activations.

http://www.lnrprecision.com/endfedz/ <http://www.lnrprecision.com/endfedz/>

More info on the potential Cascadia earthquake.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one 
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one>

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)


On Apr 30, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> wrote:

I have always wondered how towers hold up during earthquakes. Being able to 
work with ad-hoc antennas seems a good attribute for any emergency plan.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 4/30/17 at 11:34 AM, kev...@coho.net wrote:


Please try NVIS on 40 or 80 meters.  You'll find you can cover most of the 
state with its use.  Plus the antennas can be ad hoc - tossed into trees or 
even an old fence line.

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Re: [Elecraft] NVIS HF vs VHF line-of-sight & CB in 9.0 quakes

[kev...@coho.net]

When we get that 9.0 quake many of my local roads will go away. The 
gravel logging roads carved into the side of the mountain will 
collapse.  They regularly do so during our torrential rain season.  A 
quake will just make it worse.  Plus the number of trees I'll have to 
cut between here and my mailbox will take at least a 5 gallon container 
of fuel.  Luckily the CB radios will still work so I can get the local 
loggers to carve me out.


However, at that point I'll have to worry about all the bridges between 
here and there.  Only the smallest ones will have a chance of remaining 
passable.  I have charged deep cycle marine batteries and reels of spare 
antenna wire.  As long as I have a roof over my head I'll be able to 
communicate.  Even then I do have a tent to live in until civilization 
rights itself again.  The local grouse, rabbit, and deer population may 
take a hit though :)


GL in the big one,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS

On 4/30/2017 2:43 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:

The potential Cascadia earthquake could be 9.0. That means that every tower 
will fall, maybe even those built like this CHP/CalOES tower.

http://www.oesnews.com/going-towering-heights-keep-emergency-communications-flowing/ 
<http://www.oesnews.com/going-towering-heights-keep-emergency-communications-flowing/>

That is why I suggested easily erected wire antennas and small beams, like a 
10m Moxon. After the big one, it will be Field Day, not “flip the switch on the 
linear”.

Regular practice with field antennas will be more useful preparation than a big 
antenna farm. Maybe some regular exercises with a Par EndFedZ antenna, or even 
SOTA activations.

http://www.lnrprecision.com/endfedz/ <http://www.lnrprecision.com/endfedz/>

More info on the potential Cascadia earthquake.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one 
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one>

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)


On Apr 30, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> wrote:

I have always wondered how towers hold up during earthquakes. Being able to 
work with ad-hoc antennas seems a good attribute for any emergency plan.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 4/30/17 at 11:34 AM, kev...@coho.net wrote:


Please try NVIS on 40 or 80 meters.  You'll find you can cover most of the 
state with its use.  Plus the antennas can be ad hoc - tossed into trees or 
even an old fence line.

---
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Re: [Elecraft] NVIS HF vs VHF line-of-sight & CB

[kev...@coho.net]

I lose my antennas about once each year to straight line winds. Flying 
branches knock them down.  But if the wires are still intact I can run 
the nets with the lowered antennas.  Using less than optimal antennas 
works; just not as well as perfect antennas.  In an emergency I really 
don't care about perfect performance, I simply want to contact someone 
for assistance.  By all means put up the best antenna you can just 
remember any antenna can make contacts.


Years ago I wrote some software to display antenna propagation patterns 
as a half wave dipole was lowered from 1 wavelength above ground until 
it was on the ground.  The results were pretty interesting.  By using 
the program I found many heights would work well depending on where I 
wanted to contact.  At less than 1/10 wavelength above the ground the 
radiation patterns got rather odd but still worked for in-state comms.  
Once I had modeled what was going to happen I tested it by dropping my 
antennas to different heights and tested comms.  Theory and practice 
correlated quite nicely.


Kevin.  KD5ONS

P. S. The application also modeled 1/4 wave verticals and loop 
antennas.  I never found the time to model the Yagi-Uda, the math got 
too hairy.  Using Euler's equation a few times got me through the three 
antenna types I was able to model.  Beating on the Bessel functions 
would have taken longer than the time I had allotted to me.


 K.


On 4/30/2017 1:22 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
I have always wondered how towers hold up during earthquakes. Being 
able to work with ad-hoc antennas seems a good attribute for any 
emergency plan.


73 Bill AE6JV

On 4/30/17 at 11:34 AM, kev...@coho.net wrote:

Please try NVIS on 40 or 80 meters. You'll find you can cover most of 
the state with its use.  Plus the antennas can be ad hoc - tossed 
into trees or even an old fence line.

---
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(408)356-8506  | internet. I have DSL.| 16345 Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |  | Los Gatos, CA 95032

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Re: [Elecraft] NVIS HF vs VHF line-of-sight & CB

[kev...@coho.net]

I live in Oregon's Northern Coast Range.  2 meters has the same problems 
up here as it does in the Southern regions.  Because most of the locals 
have CB radios it is how we communicate in an emergency.  The local 
repeaters are dead other than during net times or drive times.  If you 
really need help CB radio works much better than our amateur bands.  We 
also use it to avoid the many log trucks.


Please try NVIS on 40 or 80 meters.  You'll find you can cover most of 
the state with its use.  Plus the antennas can be ad hoc - tossed into 
trees or even an old fence line.


73 & GL,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 4/30/2017 8:30 AM, KG7FYI wrote:

Thanks Bill. Yes it is a very nice area. This is us
http://www.singingfalls.com

Right now the antenna plan is thus. :

Two towers spanning 380 feet. The foundations are poured and towers
staged. Working on refurbishing a used KT34XA to current '36XA specs. I
will have a 2M yagi pointed and our ARES relay tower and a 2M vertical
for general purposes to access other available bands. I will have a 11M
yagi up to communicate with unlicensed locals. Most folks have a cb base
out here. I've got a multiband dipole and a long wire to span the two
towers. ( I named the towers Sauron and Saruman :) )

73
Stan KG7FYI

On 04/30/2017 03:04 AM, Bill W4ZV [via Elecraft] wrote:

Hi Stan,

Responding to excerpts below:

 KG7FYI wrote
 Our very local scenario is filled with mountains and valleys. We
 are the
 land of “One Hundred Valleys”. Actually there are thousands of
 them! 2M
 is very spotty.

 Our ARES group requires go bags for all vehicles. Few people but a
 lot
 of livestock and gardens here.

 My only concern was availability of frequency bandwidth. We have a
 least
 two Extra Class licenses in the community and one MARS certified.
 Unfortunately they are many 15+ miles away deep in a valley.

Sounds like a beautiful area!  You probably know this but NVIS would
be a perfect solution for you.  40 meters would be the easiest NVIS
antenna (very low dipole) to implement.  "Military NVIS communications
mostly take place on 2-4 MHz at night and on 5-7 MHz during daylight."

Here's a link explaining:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_vertical_incidence_skywave

However this would require General Class licenses or higher for voice
modes.

73 and Good Luck!

Bill  W4ZV


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Good Evening,

   I lost another one of my mentors recently.  Royal Robbins was 82.  
He joins another mentor who left us in 2012: Herb Conn. Between these 
two I learned how to climb and how to cave.  I owe many of my wilderness 
ethics to them.  While I never climbed the big walls of California nor 
spelunked the largest caverns of Kentucky I did climb in the Black Hills 
and at Devil's Lake in my home state of Wisconsin.  Most of my caving 
was in the Hills under the Conns' tutelage.  Royal taught me how to 
leave as few marks on the rock face as I did on the way to it.  I do 
miss standing on a summit and lying under twenty foot long soda straws 
but miss them both even more.


   The sun has been active this week as the auroras show.  I got two 
emails from my brother telling me the West Coast was booming into 
Wisconsin right around net time yesterday.  He said the East Coast and 
EU were weak but everybody west of the Rockies was 30 over S9.  Too bad 
I can't convince him to get his license again.  However, this bodes well 
for at least the forty meter net.  Hopefully, twenty meters will open up 
again too.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Robbins
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39697638
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Herb_Conn

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The sun has been tossing ejecta at us for the last few days. The 
ionosphere is bouncing all over the place in response.  So I guess the 
ionosphere is active but not necessarily good for comms.  I expect QSB 
and a number of types of noise.  However a lot of ions also may mean 
louder signals to drag out of the noise.  It is always fun to find out.



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Re: [Elecraft] A little theory

[kev...@coho.net]

The link was not off topic when I posted it.  My intention was not to 
advertise an already famous person but rather to get folks more 
interested in learning theory.  There has been so much discussion of 
grounding, dielectrics, antenna theory, impedance, and feedline problems 
which a few equations could solve quite quickly.  An equation can 
substitute for ten thousand words.  The Reflector would not be so 
deluged with antenna and feedline questions with just a little more 
theory being learned.


I find the ARRL antenna books anecdotal.  They give me fish but don't 
teach me how to fish.  When I learned the antenna equations I found I 
could fish any way I wanted to.


73,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] A little theory

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I wish I could have met the man - he was a pistol :)

73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 4/16/2017 1:54 PM, jrquark wrote:

Dick was my mentor many years ago, I still feel honored to have been a student 
of his.

Jim - K7BIE


On Apr 16, 2017, at 3:16 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote:

I'll attest that it is great and interesting reading for anyone interested
in Physics. I bought the three-volume set in San Francisco back in the
1980's, and it remains a valued part of my scientific library alongside
Pauling's text on Inorganic Chemistry.

Feynman also wrote an eloquent text on quantum electrodynamics for those
with little scientific background called "QED The Strange Theory of Light
and Matter".

And for some thoughtful insights into Feynman himself there is his book "The
Meaning of it All - Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist" or for a few chuckles
his autobiographical book "What do YOU Care What Other People Think?"

I strive to live by his advice, "Study hard what interests you the most in
the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

I'm afraid not all of my college instructors agreed, however.

73, Ron AC7AC



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If you are not familiar with Richard Feynman he was a physicist who worked
on the Manhattan Project.  He was also a professor at Caltech.
Here are some of his lectures on physics which he offered to undergrads.
Introductory college level physics taught by a master.

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

73 & GL,

  Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] A little theory

[kev...@coho.net]

If you are not familiar with Richard Feynman he was a physicist who 
worked on the Manhattan Project.  He was also a professor at Caltech.  
Here are some of his lectures on physics which he offered to 
undergrads.  Introductory college level physics taught by a master.


http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

73 & GL,

 Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The sun has continued to be quiescent.  A CME just grazed us and another 
high speed stream of wind is on the way for tomorrow. Ions are getting 
to the ionosphere but nothing like last spring. Spinning the knob gives 
me not much to nothing on the higher bands while lower down there are 
more stations.


The week was filled with a variety of precipitation types. Only this 
morning there were flakes of snow, slushy streaks of snow, pellets of 
snow, and rain.  Between the snow falls, the rain showers, and the gusty 
winds there were a few pauses. Let's me collect wood and not get 
soaked.  Then came the sun. Not just for five minutes but for a number 
of hours.  Maybe winter is losing its grip.  I had not seen the sun for 
that long since October.



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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The sun was quite active during the early part of the week. It has since 
quieted.  Last Sunday the sfu was over 100. Currently it is hovering 
around 70 again where it seems to have been stuck all winter.  The 
strong auroral oval tells me there are ions coming in so the lower bands 
should be noisy but OK. The ELVE in Eastern Europe was interesting.  I 
doubt the lightning ever gets that intense in the PNW.


The daffodils are budding and will open in a week.  That means the last 
snow is due.  Before noon we got half an inch of pellets but we normally 
get a few inches once the daffodils start blooming.  I think their 
clocks are set for warmer areas.



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[Elecraft] Lightning can effect the ionosphere

[kev...@coho.net]

I just read about an ELVE above the Czech Republic.  ELVE - Emissions of 
Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations. http://spaceweather.com/ has 
an article and an image.  The phenomenon creates a red doughnut shaped 
ring lasting less than 0.001 seconds.  It does require a more forceful 
lightning stroke than normal: 150-350 kiloAmps; approximately ten times 
the normal strike.


With the recent talk of antenna protection from a local strike I thought 
this reference was timely.


Kevin.  KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] SSB Net

[kev...@coho.net]

"The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little 
longer."  Construction Battalion circa 1943


Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 4/2/2017 8:23 PM, Steve Sergeant wrote:

We do these things, to borrow from JFK, "...not because they are easy,
but because they are hard..."


On 4/2/17 14:30 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:

And that's all you need to know about QRP.

On 4/2/2017 1:37 PM, Steve Sergeant wrote

I knew I didn't have chance to be heard using QRP power.

--Steve, KC6ZKT

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

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While twenty meters got me into Michigan, North Dakota, Georgia, and 
Japan twenty meters only got me to California.  Even though the sun is 
active right now it's a bit too active :)  Yes, we never get it the way 
we want it but I think it's going to be better tomorrow.  Unfortunately 
for us all that is the work week. So here's to the sun keeping very 
active up until Friday mid-afternoon.  Then slacking off for excellent 
conditions on Saturday and Sunday.  One can dream.


73,

 Kevin.   KD5ONS

Net Control Person

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Re: [Elecraft] SSB Net

[kev...@coho.net]

I just called the 20 meter Elecraft CW Net.  I worked folks in Michigan, 
Georgia, North Dakota, & Japan.  QSB was strong except to the West, the 
JA was blasting in at S6 with weaker QSB. Waves of QRN were passing 
through the band which wiped it out for a few seconds too.  100 watts on 
CW works pretty well when the band is passable.


73,

   Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 4/2/2017 3:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

By that assessment, sometimes 10 kW is "QRP" (can't be heard) and sometimes
100 mW is QRO (heard Q5).

It's ALL about band cdx.

73, Ron AC7AC

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And that's all you need to know about QRP.

On 4/2/2017 1:37 PM, Steve Sergeant wrote

I knew I didn't have chance to be heard using QRP power.

--Steve, KC6ZKT


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

   There is some good news on spaceweather.com  Not only are there 
spots on the sun, the ones which are there are big and unstable.  The 
SFU is at 91, higher than it's been all winter.  If it's not too noisy 
tomorrow there should be decent propagation.


On Thursday there was a break in the downpour.  I slowly opened the 
front door.  That wasn't enough, the hummers zipped toward me defending 
the feeder.   They don't seem to understand I am the one who fills it.  
While wondering about the birds I saw two does looking at me.  They were 
dripping wet from the last storm.  They did not look happy.  I should 
have invited them in for hot chocolate.


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73,
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

After two spotless weeks the sun has a new speckle.  There was a 
decent solar breeze earlier in the week too.  Auspicious thoughts here.  
I am hoping for more band noise and better reception.  They seem to 
correlate.  If the band sounds like I am in the middle of cotton ball I 
never do well.


   Speaking of sound I am hearing a Saw Whet owl who has been filing 
away for over an hour.  Now that the snow is gone more species of birds 
are showing up.  Instead of my winter flock of Grey Jays, Steller's 
Jays, and Oregon Juncos the snowbirds are returning.  Some of them are 
here for only a week; others for most of the summer.  But come mid 
October I have only those three species again.  We need to hang together 
in the winter.


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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The sun has been on a stretch of spotless days (& nights).  Even the 
solar wind is desultory. Maybe a good contest with all the Elecraft 
linears filling our dreams would revivify the ionosphere.  However, 
tales from the lower bands are more enticing.


During the breaks in the storms I've been out clearing up broken trees.  
The wildlife is coming back now that the snow is gone.  A pileated 
woodpecker called for a while then hammered on a tree.  Six elk in very 
shabby winter coats walked in from the mist.  We looked at each other.  
Then they slowly walked on by and back into the mist.  No fear; well 
maybe a little, they could have stepped on me.



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[Elecraft] Elecraft Net revised times

[kev...@coho.net]

A little figuring gave me these times for tomorrow's nets


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[Elecraft] ECN addenda

[kev...@coho.net]

Forgot, this is the week to change times.

I'll dig up the times and post them in a minute.

 Kevin.

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The sun has been spotless for the last few days.  A CME just missed 
the earth earlier this week.  Plus the SFU is getting rather anaemic at 
71.  But the right time of day on the right band can work wonders.  Late 
at night on the low bands has been fun; the higher bands not so much.  
Tomorrow we can test 20 & 40 meters again.


Laziness is a virtue.  If I can split wood with only one swing I can 
split more wood before I'm beat.  If there is a knot I rotate the wood.  
If there is any crack I exploit it; natural cleavage lines are best.  
The optimal spot to set my wedge is about 1/3 of the way in on a radial 
line from the center (orthogonality is important).  1/2 way for smaller 
logs, as little as 1/8 of the way in for larger logs (4 footers).  If I 
set the wedge too close to the center I work too hard; that triggers my 
inherent laziness. Splitting wood gives me time to think :)



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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

   The sun has been active this week.  But it appears we are leaving a 
stream of solar wind.  That should mean a refreshed ionosphere with 
improving conditions.  I have been known to be wrong on occasion.  Being 
a hopeless optimist is not easy.


   That ground hog was right.  I have had continuous snow since early 
December.  I will get at least another week more.  Today it went from 
almost bare to three inches.  More Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc.  
However, the first flowers are blooming which has to mean something.  
Time to clean the hummingbird feeders.


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Re: [Elecraft] Sunday Net on 40 meters

[kev...@coho.net]

When you hear the others sending their call or "hail" sign just send 
yours.  Usually I'll get alerted to you by the other ops. Today I was 
getting comments about how folks were hearing which did not match what I 
was hearing.  I was in the middle of a torrent of rain from my trees.  
The sun was hitting the new fallen snow and melting it.   My normally 
strong path to the Anchorage, AK area was not there as well the one into 
MI.  Forty meters usually captures all of WA and some of OR.  I did work 
one Portland, OR station which is normally out of my reach because of 
the mountains in the way.


So send your call sign when you hear the others send theirs. Then they 
will feel guilty for not telling me if they read more of these email 
messages.  Guilt worked for my parents I think this is the perfect spot 
to attempt it :)


73 & please keep calling,

   Kevin.  KD5ONS

   Net Control Operator 5th Class


On 2/26/2017 5:29 PM, Marvin Wheeler wrote:

I listened to check in to the 40 meter net. I could faintly hear the net
control station but could not copy his transmissions here in Washington
State.  Most California stations were at least 5 7 or 5 9 but I didn't hear
anyone ask for relays to check in.

  


Marv

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

Please join us tomorrow on:

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73,
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Re: [Elecraft] KX2 Happiness

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I have found the Microsoft auto-correct system to be far less literate 
than the majority of folks writing text.  It is quite frustrating to 
have to add a half dozen words to its lexicon while I am writing a 
simple email.  Said lexicon includes a few errors which need to be 
corrected.  My high school English teachers would freak.


   Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 2/20/2017 4:47 AM, Thorpe, Jeffrey wrote:

I refer to it as "auto-corrupt."

Jeff - KG7HDZ


On Feb 19, 2017, at 9:29 PM, Wayne Burdick  wrote:

Damn auto-correct :)

Wayne


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Re: [Elecraft] Radio and the August Solar Eclipse

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If you enjoy mixing astronomical sightings and amateur radio you could 
try timing occultations or the total solar eclipse coming this August.  
Stay in touch with the other folks along your path of occultation and 
find which of you caught the best graze angle. Timing a bright star is 
easily done without a telescope.


73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 2/19/2017 3:21 PM, Doug Millar via Elecraft wrote:

Is anyone else going out for the eclipse and joining in the propagation study?  
I will be in Casper, Wy. with the KX2 and a buddistick and beaconing for the 
reverse beacon network. That is the plan, any comments?
Doug K6JEY
  
drzarko...@yahoo.com

562 810 3989  cell/text

  
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,
The calendar may not show it, the weather surely doesn't, but there are 
a few signs that spring is coming.  I heard a grouse drumming on 
Wednesday, I have no idea why.  Then last night a barred owl started up 
right outside my window.  Next will come the tiny insects the 
hummingbirds enjoy.


  A solar stream is causing a little more noise but signals have been 
better this week.  It's all a matter of S/N; can you get enough signal 
above the floor or are you just copying holes in the noise.  That's good 
for a call sign but not a chat.


Please join us tomorrow on:

   14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday)
7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] ECOM scare -- FW: Soldering lesson

[kev...@coho.net]

I was at a Red Cross headquarters working ECOM when the room filled with 
bystanders.  All of the power supplies were facing the operators while 
their exposed backs were next to the crowd.  I noticed a lot of hand 
jewelry.  I got the most important looking person's attention and 
mentioned how a dead short across 40 amps would effect his hand.  Since 
I had only been there a few minutes he looked at me funny and then at 
the exposed wiring.  Soon afterward there was someone covering them with 
tape.  High amperage DC is very dangerous.  You would need to have a 
finger or hand amputated if your jewelry shorts it out.


Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 2/17/2017 5:08 PM, Jerry wrote:

Well, it is pretty obvious to me. Look at the rock on her left hand! She
shouldn't be wearing that while soldering!! That could be a safety hazard!!

Best laughs

Jerry, W1IE

-Original Message-
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Douglas Hudson
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 6:29 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Soldering lesson

This is an example of how easy it is to build a kit.

http://www.eejournal.com/archives/fresh-bytes/everything-about-this-beautifu
l-woman-soldering-stock-photo-is-w/
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

   Propagation has gotten slightly better.  A little is from the noise 
level dropping and some from the sun moving northward.  I have not had 
much chance to get on the air since last weekend. The power stuttered 
moments after the second net and went out for three days an hour later.


Weather has been hectic since last weekend.  First 20" of snow falls 
then heavy rains melt it again.  Luckily the flooding was not too bad.  
I keep walking the forest and finding more work to do.  Lots of damage 
but it does direct my thinning.  There is now a gap close to 1/8 mile 
long.  A Beverage antenna running due north?  Or the first leg of a 1/2 
mile loop?


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 7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net notes

[kev...@coho.net]

During both nets the power was browning out.  Between the nets the power 
went out twice.  But the second net ran fine at the new time with strong 
signals.  However, just as the last dit dits were being exchanged I lost 
power for a few minutes.  There was a short break in the snow fall 
during the 40 meter net but it is coming down hard again.  On twenty 
meters the snow was causing a lot of noise but I was getting out to at 
least Michigan and Indiana.  On 40 meters my longest reach was Texas.


Now for the next foot to fall :)

73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

   I have been scanning the lower bands since mid-December.  For the 
last two weeks activity on 160 and 80 meters has slowed.  I was hoping 
for better.  Upon checking SpaceWeather.com I find the sun is still 
streaming ions our way; in fact there is a wind at the moment.


I am also tracking an incoming storm.  When I first saw the 
forecast I thought there was a typo: 20 inches of snow tomorrow? Eeeek!  
That means I'll need to shovel the roof at least once. Right now it is 
in the 40s and raining cats and dogs.  How and when the temperature 
drops below freezing will make all the difference.  Freezing rain tested 
the antennas again just a few days ago.


   Because of the lack of propagation on 40 meters I have moved it 
forward in time by an hour.  So those of you who have not eaten too much 
tomorrow can find me a bit earlier.  If I am not on the air it is 
because of the storm.  I expect to lose power and maybe my antennas, 
it's just a matter of when.



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 7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] 9:1 Balun

[kev...@coho.net]

We have all learned to say, "Yes Dear." and carry on.

73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 1/31/2017 3:11 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
This list is a lot like being male and married ... no matter what you 
do or say, you're going to be told you're wrong. [:-)



Most common baluns are *not transformers* as the energy does not pass
solely from input to output by magnetic coupling.  In fact, I would
hazard a guess that *none* of the devices advertised/sold as baluns
are transformers.  Yes, many of the inexpensive 4:1 "baluns" - the
voltage type (auto-transformer) baluns - may qualify due to the
magnetic coupling between windings but they are *not* baluns in that
they do not provide a balanced to unbalanced transformation (they are,
in your terms an "un-un").
We were at our previous QTH on 5 acres for 38 years and I had a lot of 
time and space to experiment with antennas.  I had or had used 6 
different baluns.  All were transformers.  I currently have one on my 
HOA-Stealth wire.  It too is a transformer.  I also have an unused one 
in the garage that is an autotransformer with the shield carried 
through to one of the terminals on the "other" side.  It is an Un-Un, 
but it has a 4:1 turns ratio [16:1 impedance transformation] as well.


While transformers are not the only way to build a bal-un or un-un, 
that's 7 bal-uns and 1 un-un, all transformers.


One can build a balun from transmission line since a transmission line 
will act as a transformer.  They're frequency dependent of course, and 
typically used at VHF and up.


Incidentally, one of the transformer baluns with an SO-239 connector 
carried a rating of "10 KW, 11 KV."  I don't think I'd want to stuff 
10KW into that connector. [:-)  I still have it, I'll never use it 
again, I'll give it away if anyone wants it.



In the classic case, a balanced load [e.g. center of a half-wave
wire] becomes unbalanced [coax, shield grounded] by the bal-un.



Again, NO!  The balanced load is not "unbalanced" by the balun.

Did not intend to say that, English can be seriously difficult when 
describing something.  Let's see if I can re-word that to better 
convey the meaning ...


"The balanced side of the balun is balanced, and it stays that way.  
That's half the point of all this drivel [the other half is impedance 
transformation].  They sometimes use standoff's or such for the 
balanced connection.  Once you go through the balun toward the 
transmitter, you get an unbalanced connection for the unbalanced coax, 
usually an SO-239.  The balun thus allows a balanced load [e.g. the 
center of a wire] to remain balanced when fed with an unbalanced 
transmission line." That should help.



Due to skin effect, a properly terminated coaxial cable is a three
wire transmission line.  The center conductor and *inside* of the
shield form one circuit (which is "balanced" due to the laws of
physics) and the *outside* of the shield carries "unbalanced" (or
common mode) current due to any difference in potential between
the ends of the cable or induced currents from external fields.


Yep, that fact has been discussed multiple times here.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening,

Propagation is slowly improving as the sun moves back north. The 
sun has stopped its recent blank spell and speckled up a bit. Between 
the effects of the solar wind and the change in season a few DX stations 
have been popping up out of the noise.  Work them for a while and they 
fade away.  I don't expect to catch a fish with every cast; I'd get no 
chance to think.


Speaking of meditating the snow has melted to where I can check 
more of my timber.  I took a long walk today through the youngest 
areas.  The alder took the hardest beating with Doug fir coming in 
second.  I found only one broken hemlock which got crushed by its 
neighboring alder trees.  The cedar all seem to have been spared.  I 
have a lot of cutting to do before I see the forest floor again.  If it 
weren't so much fun I'd think it was work :)


Please join us tomorrow on:

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 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening,

A week of more normal weather (near constant rain) has released the 
guy lines and allowed me to jury rig the antenna. It's electrically fine 
just not quite where it should be.  One alder tree has grabbed it (the 
one which broke it).  I thought it unwise to use my chainsaw on a muddy, 
icy slope.  So it will take a few more hours of work to reroute.  I now 
have the classic kinked inverted V configuration antenna.  The tuning is 
just slightly different.


While I checked the bands during retuning I was hearing quite a 
number of folks on the air.  Bugs and paddles both with the odd straight 
key now and then.  The bands I checked are better than they were only a 
few weeks back with an SFU of 83.  That bodes well for tomorrow's nets.


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73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net options

[kev...@coho.net]

Thanks guys!  I appreciate the help.  Once I get the upper guy line out 
of its mini-glacier I'll drop the broken end.  The guy on the center 
tree should be unfrozen by then too.  I am used to fixing antennas in 
the rain; snow just makes it take a little longer.  (Apologies to the 
Sea Bees :)


73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 1/15/2017 6:36 PM, Brian Hunt wrote:

I gave a listen at 0200z on 40 meters and heard Ken, W0CZ, calling CQ ECN. I 
called him a few times but he wasn't hearing me. Thanks, Ken for taking the 
helm. Sorry I couldn't reach up there to the frozen north.

Kevin- Good luck on your antenna repair.

73,
Brian, K0DTJ
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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net options

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening,

A winter storm came on shore sometime last Sunday.  By Monday night 
there was another 20" on snow on the ground.  It was also bending many 
of my trees almost to the ground.  That night a number of trees exploded 
under the weight; twenty foot sections of their trunks turning into 
shrapnel.  Branches breaking under the load of snow and ice also kept me 
awake.  The next morning I found both of my doublets broken.  The 14 ga 
THHN had parted in the middle where a branch had gone through it.  
Currently each of the three guy lines is under an inch or two of ice.  
Hopefully the coming thaw will let me repair them.  One interesting 
note: the broken trees failed from their compressed side toward the side 
under tension.


   Now for the net options: you can appoint a temporary NCS and carry 
on or we can postpone the nets until I can repair the antennas.  This 
should be by next Sunday.  Since each doublet failed in the middle of a 
leg the repair will be easy once I can free the guy lines.


73 & Stay Warm,

Kevin.  KD5ONS



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Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Support

[kev...@coho.net]

I grew up with a stack of pristine ARC-5 receivers.  My dad had worked 
on them during WWII and bought half a dozen when they were cheap in the 
50s.  When I opened them up I found each part was placed just so; the 
resistor color bands all lined up with the tolerance bands in lock 
step.  I just could not bring myself to touch them with a soldering iron 
even years after dad had passed away.  It would be like dismantling a 
sculpture.


73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 1/8/2017 2:42 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:

Please everyone, we don’t need the “appliance operators vs builders” argument 
here. Those are flavors of amateur radio, not levels of goodness.

I was an appliance operator in 1970, with a BC-348 receiver and an ARC-5 
transmitter. My Elmer got those working for me.

See you on the æther,

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)


On Jan 8, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft 
<elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote:

Much of the market has changed over the years with more and more coming into 
amateur radio who are moreor less operators and not builders (as I view it they 
are the ones missing out on 90% of the fun of amateur radio).But as I would 
tend to believe Elecraft wants to stay in business they need to evolve with the 
changing market.
I have built a few radios that were surface mount and they can be a little more 
of a challenge than through hole,but not nearly as hard as I initially thought 
they would be, just a but different in the thought process and work.I think 
Elecraft would be hard pressed to sell a lot of K3's that were 100% in Kit form 
(as in solder the boards).

The K2 was a great radio and I really enjoyed building it (and in a moment of 
foolishness I sold it).
Of the few radios I regret selling the ones I actually built are the ones I 
regret the most.

  From: Jim Rogers <jim.w4...@gmail.com>
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Support

And I agree with you and Kevin Ron.  Sometimes with growth cracks occur
and you might just fall through one now and then. But you remain
faithful to the cause. There is one Elecraft radio that will never leave
my shack and that one is my faithful K2/10 with that wonderful receiver.
It has the battery supply and that great antenna tuner and every option
except the 100W amp.

Jim, W4ATK

K2, K-Line


On 1/7/2017 9:32 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

Yes, it is clear Elecraft's primary customer base has shifted from builders
to operators. By "operators" I mean Hams who want a rig they plug in, turn
on, and use on the air or perhaps tinker with interfacing it with their
computer, etc.
   
I agree with Kevin.


73, Ron AC7AC

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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Support

Sigh

   Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 1/7/2017 2:36 PM, Jim Rogers wrote:

Does anyone remember the good old days, back when the K2 was king, you
would call support and would be routed to an engineer or perhaps in
the case of the DSP2,  Lyle himself? I remember developing a real
friendship with a guy out west, who worked from his home. Eventually
we shared phone numbers. Or you would turn to the back of the K2
manual and there find the complete schematics and chapter 9, "Circuit
Details"?  Yeah, I know, those were the days of thru-hole kits, solder
smoke, and, "gee I wish I had not done that", when you lifted a trace
and had to break out the blue wire to make things right again. Things
were better thenthose really were the good old days...things were
more personal then.

Jim, W4ATK

Licensed: General Class Sept 1953

K2, K-Line

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening,

After a cold week the incoming storms are bringing warm weather.  
Lots of snow, but it is 15 degrees warmer so I don't mind the slow 
driving.  The sun has been sending solar wind our way even though it has 
been spotless for a few days.  Charting the MUF over the last week has 
shone me why contacts are so tough on the higher bands (anything above 
80 meters).


   I started using the Elecraft reflector in early 2001.  The K2 had 
been around for a while and the K1 was rather new.  The reflector was 
fun and helpful.  As Elecraft has grown and added more products it has 
gathered many new customers.  While I do miss those early days I am very 
glad how Elecraft has grown: steadily and wisely.  I also miss my 
Hodaka, my Post Versalog II sliderule, and 1960's prices.


Please join us tomorrow on:

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 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[kev...@coho.net]

Sigh

Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 1/7/2017 2:36 PM, Jim Rogers wrote:
Does anyone remember the good old days, back when the K2 was king, you 
would call support and would be routed to an engineer or perhaps in 
the case of the DSP2,  Lyle himself? I remember developing a real 
friendship with a guy out west, who worked from his home. Eventually 
we shared phone numbers. Or you would turn to the back of the K2 
manual and there find the complete schematics and chapter 9, "Circuit 
Details"?  Yeah, I know, those were the days of thru-hole kits, solder 
smoke, and, "gee I wish I had not done that", when you lifted a trace 
and had to break out the blue wire to make things right again. Things 
were better thenthose really were the good old days...things were 
more personal then.


Jim, W4ATK

Licensed: General Class Sept 1953

K2, K-Line

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kev...@coho.net]

Happy New Year,

Winter keeps moving the sun northward.  A solar breeze is 
replenishing the ionosphere and making quite a racket.  Hopefully the 
signals can overpower the noise.  Any change in propagation will only be 
better.


After a few days of thaw the chill came back along with more 
precipitation.  Hoarfrost built up over a few hours and then fluffy snow 
began.  Cold days make the wood split more easily. Today's wood came 
inside four days ago allowing me to maintain the symbiotic relationship 
with my wood stove.  She likes dry wood much better.


Please join us tomorrow on:

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 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net hiatus

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Merry Christmas to you all!

There will be no ECN/20 or ECN/40 today.

Please enjoy your family and friends on this holy holiday.

Until next week stay safe and well,

73,

Kevin.  KD5ONS

Net Control Operator 5th Class.

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening,
Conditions continue to challenge.  The sun is active, kind of. Noise 
levels are up from a variety of solar occurrences.  However, you can 
still hear and work folks; just not always where you had wanted to :)


   Colder than normal temperatures have brought fluffy snow. Anything 
touching it leaves a story.  The elk are easier to track.  It's fun to 
see the snow falling into a hoof print in the shade.  If you are very 
lucky you get to see them disappear nearby.  Each new storm provides a 
blank slate.


Please join us tomorrow on:

   14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday)
 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening,


Please join us tomorrow on:

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 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kev...@coho.net]

 Good Evening,

   While scanning the bands I have found a few signals; I know my radio 
works.  However, upon calling people the odds of them responding are 
double plus ungood.  The bands just don't seem very responsive.  The sun 
has been sending a few ions our way though with more spots showing.  A 
lull in the decline.


   Weather has been cooling and quite wet, not torrential, just 
seasonal.  That is due to change tomorrow when the snow starts.  I have 
been watching the cold clouds push over the taller mountains of the 
Coast Range south of me.  Each dollop of dense, cold cloud rolls down 
the mountain only to splash into the cloud layer below creating a wave 
which propagates across the valley and back again with a period of over 
a minute.  If only my RF waves would propagate as well.


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73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net partial cancellation

[kev...@coho.net]

Good Evening,

 CQ world DX contest is everywhere I have looked.  This contest 
will continue until 2400z on the 27th.  Tomorrow's twenty meter net will 
be cancelled.  There should be room for the second net on 40 meters.


Just yesterday I had a contact into AK on 30 meters.  As we went 
along he dropped farther into the noise on QSB dips.  Even with the 
noise I was copying almost everything.  On the peaks I could copy the CW 
tones but during the troughs I was copying the breaks in the steady 
hiss.  When you think about it this shouldn't be possible.  Am I making 
this up or do other folks copy breaks in the hiss too?  It may be due to 
the 2500+ hours we have spent on the air together; better than ESP :)


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73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

The bands have been uncooperative as of late.  SFU steady around 78 with 
few to no sunspots.  My DX has been to such exotic locales as Michigan 
and Ohio.  Fine folks the lot of them but not DX in the truest sense :)  
We are out of the latest solar stream so that steady hissing sound has 
weakened.  Maybe the latest 'upsurge' in spots bodes well for the winter.


I was hiking my forest, looking for dead trees to thin, when I saw the 
flick of an ear.  I spotted the doe looking at me so I waited.  And 
waited.  Then I went back to looking at trees while ignoring her.  She 
took the hint and got back to eating.  For five minutes or so I walked 
cross wind of her assessing next year's pile of wood.  She ate her way 
behind some trees and we lost track of each other.  I have a lot of wood 
to cut.


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 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

   The sun has been active for the last week sending a steady hiss of 
ions.  QSB gives an interesting warble to CW communications while the 
aurora makes it sound like you're in a large pool of water.  Picking DX 
out of this mix is always fun.


For some reason it is getting much easier to gather wood. Somewhere 
around truck load eight I noticed this.  I am sleeping well too.  I took 
a hike today to check out the undergrowth and to see where the elk are 
moving.  More chanterelles in the usual locations.  I need some 
recipes.  The wood gathering also improves my appetite.



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 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

   The sun has been active this week.  So active it made a lot of 
noise.  However, after that calmed down signals were better than they 
had been in a while.  DX kept popping up like the local chanterelles.


   While clearing out an acre of hillside I flushed a grouse. That is 
not uncommon.  But, instead of flying into the nearby thicket of alder 
he perched on a limb.  For the next half hour he watched me improve his 
bit of property.  The bear berries will do nicely next year.  Once he 
was satisfied with my work he glided off.  The elk have already approved 
my work.


Remember the time change.  Local time stays the same (for most of you) 
while the UTC time changes.  If the bands are uncooperative there may be 
changes.


Please join us tomorrow on:

   14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday)
 7045 kHz at 0200z Monday (6 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

During this short lull in the storm I can get this sent.  High winds 
have left the antenna intact, thus far.  Who knows what the back side of 
this storm will bring?  Only 70 mph winds but the limbs are flying 
pretty well at those speeds.


I think there has been (will be) a time change.  My Internet access is 
very spotty so I hope to get this out and then deal with any changes later.


Please join us tomorrow on:

14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
 7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (6 PM PDT Sunday)

   73,
  Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

Please join us tomorrow on:

14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
 7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (6 PM PDT Sunday)

   73,
  Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

Please join us tomorrow on:

14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
 7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (6 PM PDT Sunday)

   73,
  Kevin.  KD5ONS

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[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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Good Evening,

Propagation is a little better this week.  The sun has been actively 
tossing solar streams at the ionosphere adding enough ions to help us.  
Not very many sunspots but the change in sun angle and the shortening 
season is helping too.  Aurora are present if the skies ever clear.


   As I was bucking up a large tree my wandering mind started making 
connections.  Each cut ring of the tree was one year - Sand County 
Almanac - obituary of a friend - Erdős number.  I then realized while my 
Erdős number is slightly less than infinite my Aldo Leopold number is 
2.  There is good reason I like being in the woods :)


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   73,
  Kevin.  KD5ONS


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