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2022-04-30 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It was a wet week with only a little snow.  There were moments of sunshine so spring is here.  The large sunspot groups have moved around the limb.  Their x class flares will be pointed elsewhere until the next pass.  Let's check the S/N ratio tomorrow. Please join us on

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2022-04-23 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It has not snowed in two days.  It got sunny and mild today so I took a walk.  This winter's storm damage is localized to only a few areas.  Those received heavy snow loads followed by high winds.  There are a variety of failure modes.  All of the ferns are crushed flat to

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2022-04-16 Thread kevin
Good Evening,     It started snowing last week before either net.  It hasn't really stopped since.  After the first 24 inches there has been only a few inches more.  Power went out before midnight on Sunday.  Around 8 AM it came back on for a few minutes.  Then it came back on again around 7

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2022-04-09 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The weather has been seasonal: one day it's pouring rain with high winds, the next is sunny and warm, a day later it is snowing.  The daffodils are open with a forecast of six inches of snow.    Coyotes have returned a few times.  The mountain beaver population represents a

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2022-04-02 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Things are looking up, I saw a coyote sniffing around a number of mountain beaver tunnels.  They will return balance by thinning the population.  Maybe they can use the tunnels to start their own den.  My rhododendrons will get a chance to grow more than a few feet tall.   

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2022-03-26 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It has been a quiet week.  Not much snow, the first daffodils are blooming, and the hummingbirds are active at the feeder.  The sun was relatively blank until today.  Some active sunspots are now visible.  A CME is due tomorrow or Monday.  It is moving rapidly so the strike

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2022-03-19 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Winter will not let go.  Gray skies with snow.  However, this cannot last long, the daffodils are starting to show some color. Last night a chorus of Barred owls woke me up.  There was moving fog with an intermittent full moon; like a set from the Addams Family.    The sun

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2022-03-13 Thread David Hourdequin
Good morning Kevin. 15 degrees here in WNC! I tried to play the videos but no joy. Is there something special I need to do to play them? Tnx es 73, David, NS4V > On Mar 12, 2022, at 10:02 PM, kevin wrote: > > Good Evening, > >The sun is acting up. We are due for some effects from a

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2022-03-12 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The sun is acting up.  We are due for some effects from a CME sometime tomorrow afternoon.  Hmm... the timing seems suspicious. A few large sunspot groups are moving around the limb of the sun. A few more are moving in from the other side.  The sunspot number is a bit lower

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2022-03-05 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    After a rainy week today's sun felt good.  Buds are starting to expand.  Daffodils are about four inches tall, just in time for the next snow storm due late in the week.  There was one day of fog and snow.  It was like a Turner painting in shades of gray.    The sun is

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2022-02-26 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Wind started blowing after midnight moving the cold weather away.  Rain instead of snow so I can see my radials again.  Four inches of snow compressed them into the top layer of fir needles. I have the guy rope in place but it was too cold for me to solder the vertical

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2022-02-19 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    I spent some time cutting salvaged antennas into 1/4 wavelength segments.  Then I hiked them through brambles, bushes, dead ferns, and branches.  Currently 20 of them are in place.  I have a few more segments left to fill any gaps with one left over for the radiator.  Snow,

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2022-02-12 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    I have been exercising my ears this week.  I bought a new set of speakers * and a sub-woofer  * so I had to check them out.  I started with a variety of types of music.  Then I wanted to test the specs.  A variable sound generator would be good but I didn't have one.  I could

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2022-02-05 Thread kevin
Good Evening,     The sun has remained active all week; cycle 25 is well underway.  At the present we are being hit by some solar wind. Hopefully the stream will cease before tomorrow's nets, leaving better propagation with moderate QSB. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2022-01-29 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It is easy to lose a mountain.  Mt. St. Helens is rarely visible from here.  If there is any haze in the sky it is almost invisible.  In the summer you need to know which bit of white is a mountain top, which is a cloud, and which is the top of Mt. Rainier.  Tuesday's weather

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2022-01-22 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    I had a foggy week.  Occasionally the clouds dropped below me for some sun, or a view of the stars.  Lots of rumbling before 3 PM, loggers are moving heavy equipment.  Soggy weather lets them work longer hours with little need for fire watch.    The sun has been tossing

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2022-01-15 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The snow is almost gone.  Sun, rain, and higher temperatures have caused some flooding.  The trees have been pruned of branches, tops, weakly attached needles, and most of the tufts of lichen.  Usnea strands provide deer with a lot of carbohydrates and some protein.  The

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2022-01-08 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The last two weeks here have been dominated by snow of many different types.  The Inuit languages have over twenty words for snow.  I think that is rather sparse.  English uses modifiers independent of the root word snow.  It requires a phrase for what can be stated with a

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2022-01-01 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It has been an interesting week.  Trees kept collapsing from the snow load.  They take out the power lines causing day long power outages.  Power would come back on, last an hour or so, and go out again for another twelve hours.  Wind is kicking up right now so I may or may

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2021-12-25 Thread kevin
Merry Christmas,    Snow has been falling for the last few days; sometimes heavily.  It is no longer melting each day.  The trees look like folded beach umbrellas.  Very few of them have shed any of their load.  I expect that to happen overnight so it could get loud :)   The sun has been

[Elecraft] Elecraft Cw Net Announcement

2021-12-18 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Rain is melting the latest batch of snow.  This year's crop of ferns is more compressed.  The sword fern lose their outer fronds, while the bracken fern disintegrates.  By next fall they should be soil.    The sun has awakened.  If I could see the sun I would drag out the

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2021-12-11 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Snow and rain alternated this week.  One day snow line would be above me, the next 1000 feet below me.  Then the county crowned the gravel roads.  It feels like driving on freshly poured concrete with four flat tires.  Due to all the clear cuts there is little left to slow

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2021-12-04 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    A warm and wet week has changed into a cold and wet week. There were a few hours of sun around sunrise, sunset, and when the clouds dropped into the valleys.  The FedEx driver had to chat for a while to enjoy the sun.  It was his first trip up through the clouds.   The sun

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2021-11-27 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    There were a few clear nights this week, cold with many stars.  The days have been shades of gray.  It is hard to tell the time of day from the sun.  Some rain, ranging from heavy to a mist or dense fog.  You can smell next year's soil decomposing.   The sun has perked up. 

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2021-11-20 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It has been a chilly week.  Rain slacked off occasionally, there were a few minutes of sun.  I heard a persistent sound yesterday.  Then it made sense, they are harvesting Christmas trees with a helicopter.  With the price of trees, it is cost effective to move them to the

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2021-11-13 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Cool rain changed to warm rain, then torrential rain.  The trees are green, as is the moss.  The ferns are either golden, bronze, or faded brown.  The mushrooms are getting eaten by a variety of rodents.  The wind has caused the fir trees to shed skeins of lichen which the

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2021-10-30 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Friday the week long foggy cocoon broke open.  Shadows started to form, then the birds came out.  They favored a finely seeded bush outside my window.  The normal flock of Oregon juncos was preceded by another, smaller bird.  Mostly too quick to follow she paused in a beam

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2021-10-23 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Another foggy, wet, chilly day.  Perfect to watch 'The Thin Man Goes Home'.  Somewhere around reel three the power glitched for about twenty seconds.  This takes down two switches, the router, the satellite connection, the servers, plus the computer in front of me.  Normally

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2021-10-16 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Yesterday began sunny, then the temperature dropped and a layer of clouds formed below me.  They created a dense ground fog when they rose.  Later I saw a swirl in the mist as a head popped out.  A doe was feeding, then scanning the surroundings.  Her head would drop into the

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2021-10-09 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The snow level is still one thousand feet above me.  The first frost arrived early this week.  Chilly, wet, and foggy.  I spent the week reviewing the fundamental theorem of programming: "Computers only do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do."  You would

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2021-10-02 Thread kevin
Good Evening,   It has been cool and wet.  Today was the first sunny day all week.  I walked out on to my deck and startled a deer snoozing under it.  She burst out of the ferns and bounced like a pogo stick to the east.  A few minutes later I looked out of a window and saw her eating some

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2021-09-25 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    I normally hear Pileated woodpeckers, not see them; they are loud.  That loud call had me looking almost straight up at a rapidly flying woodpecker.  I saw the oddly shaped wings and the elbow patches, but not the distinctive red head.  I had never truly seen the odd shape of

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2021-09-18 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It was a chilly week.  Mostly sunny with one night near freezing.  Fall weather in mid-September.  I better collect more wood.  Today deer are walking around eating the fallen moss.  A lot of it was ripped from the trees in last night's storm.  There is no runoff after two

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2021-09-11 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Some days were smoky and warm, the next would be cool and clear.  I checked an HR diagram to find the sun's color temperature.  G2 on smoke free days, M5 on the others.  More plants are losing leaves.  Most of the berries are done, but the black raspberries are plentiful. 

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2021-09-04 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It has been a cool and thankfully smoke free week.  The alder trees are starting to lose their leaves.  Black berries are plentiful, huckleberries are few, with ever more bear berries. The latter are bringing more grouse.  I actually saw a bear eating them once.  I thought I

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2021-09-02 Thread Howard Hoyt
Kevin, Thanks for the reminder, that is one of my favorite Entwistle songs!! Howie / WA4PSC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post:

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2021-08-28 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    Bear berries have been ripening for the last two weeks.  I was expecting a few grouse.  Being ready does not prepare you for when they flush.  I have never understood why they flee, I can't see them until they move.  Later in the week I was greeted by a few Steller's Jays. 

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2021-08-21 Thread kevin
Good Evening,   The weather vane switched directions, winds from the ocean instead of from the smoke filled valleys.  Cooler, with clouds most mornings.  Temperatures have moderated to the mid 60s.    Earlier today I saw a tan patch on the far side of my land. It resolved into a black

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2021-08-15 Thread Merv Stump
Ernest Hemingway, eat your heart out. On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:14 AM kevin wrote: > > Good Evening, > > It was a hot, smoky week. The inactive sun stays orange all day. > The smoke is like fog in the trees without the moisture. Last night I > woke up because it was getting hard to breath.

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2021-08-14 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    It was a hot, smoky week.  The inactive sun stays orange all day.  The smoke is like fog in the trees without the moisture. Last night I woke up because it was getting hard to breath.  The smoke had become thick at my elevation.  Fire danger has risen to extreme but there are

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2021-08-07 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The sun was orange all week, dark red at sunrise.  Smoke is causing the trees to lose leaves.  After I started dinner yesterday I walked onto the porch.  The red huckleberries are easy to spot in this new color scheme.  I was interrupted by a snort to my right.  The wind was

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2021-07-31 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    This week began with another bird mystery.  Outside of the two migration seasons the species mix remains stable.  Hearing a new call in the middle of summer is unusual.  It sounded like a rusty pump.  I started dredging through my Midwestern sound memories. Those mimic birds

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2021-07-24 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The huckleberries are getting eaten by the chickadees so I have to hustle.  Thimble berries are showing the effects of the heat wave during their flowering phase.  Few fruit are ripe in this dry weather.  The black raspberries are doing great though. I saw a chipmunk on a

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2021-07-10 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    A cool, moist week, every morning foggy with sun by 10 AM.  It dropped into the 40s last night.  Feels chilly after 110 degrees. The bugs are growing well.  They find me tasty.  Wild strawberries are starting to fade with a bumper crop of salmon berries.  Black berries are

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2021-07-03 Thread kevin
Good Evening,    The week began with very hot weather.  It peaked on Tuesday at 110 degrees.  Luckily no one started a fire.  I coped by eating jalapenos and drinking a lot of water.  Then it slacked off.  Two days later the clouds came back with morning fog.  It did get to 82 today but it

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2021-06-19 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,     The weather changed a few days ago.  The cool, wet days became sunny and mild.  That is due to change again.  Sun with high temperatures and wind.  I'm glad the forest is so wet because it will take a few more days for it to dry out.  Luckily this blast of heat will end by

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement and birding report

2021-06-12 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a chilly, wet week.  Rain was slow, mostly continuous. The trees love it, there is new growth showing on all of them. The diffused lighting had me guessing about a hummingbird's species.  My first guess was immature female Anna's Hummingbird. I don't have much

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2021-05-29 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The twenty meter net may or may not meet tomorrow.  That depends on whether there will be room amoungst  the WPX folks. The second net won't be a problem: it will begin the moment after the contest closes.  Conditions are not auspicious.  However, that has not stopped us yet. 

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2021-05-22 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a cool, wet week.  This slowed the biting flies quite a bit.  I was able to go out hiking without getting eaten too badly.  Wind helped too.  If anything it is more green than last week.  The ferns are unrolling, adding their hue to the mix.  The hemlock are adding new

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2021-05-15 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Less rain and more sun have the forest growing swiftly.  It smells very good.  The biting flies have been very friendly, I wonder what they eat when I'm not around?  The hummingbirds have been very active.  Eating some of the insect population and draining the feeders.  One

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2021-05-01 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a week of rapid growth.  Ferns are now three feet tall and leaves are filling the empty spaces in the trees.  Bird species keep changing.  I heard a Mourning Dove the other morning.  They are not regulars here, must have been moving through.  The gray jays are very

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2021-04-24 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a good week.  Sunny and chilly, now wet and foggy.  On Wednesday I was out pruning when I saw a largish, white raptor ridge soaring past.  The next opening gave me more markings.  An elbow patch underneath the wing and little color.  It seemed familiar, accipter of

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2021-04-17 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The new fire station near Manning had a sign which read, "Warning, sunshine ahead."  After a long, gray winter the sunbreaks have become continuous.  Yesterday the daffodils started to open around 10 AM.  By noon they were fully open.  This is after five weeks of growth.  The

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2021-04-10 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I awoke to an inch of snow with more falling.  That lasted until mid-afternoon.  Then it started to hail followed by sleet and finally pellets of snow.  Lastly it started raining so the snow is gone.  Good day to watch the volcano in Iceland.  At least one of their web cams

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2021-04-03 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    There have been a number of sunny days this week.  They are starting to form a pattern :)  I saw a few trilliums as I struggled through the thicket of hemlock along the southern edge of my land.  I did find a few places where the deer had made a path, but they are rather 

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2021-03-27 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The rain has been falling less often.  Today there was sun for much of the day.  I followed the eastern edge of my property from corner pole to corner pole.  This was next to impossible before they thinned the forest.  Bright green moss dominated the scene. It is too early

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2021-03-20 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a soggy, gray week.  The hummingbirds returned after a three week absence.  They told me exactly where the feeder should be located.  Today the sky cleared for an hour.  Long enough to see the moon.  The snout and fore-paws of the rabbit on the moon were showing.  Then

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2021-03-14 Thread Louandzip via Elecraft
A bit OT, and this is kinda like using a CW decoder, but the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has an phone app, BirdNet. which listens and will identify birds by their calls.  When started, it displays a waterfall display of sound, you drag brackets to surround the call in time, submit it, and it

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2021-03-13 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The week began with wet weather.  Perfect for an net search to follow a hint by K0DTJ.  Brian mentioned the Merlin phone app, which helps you identify birds.  https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org Part of it is sound files.  Deeper digging got me to

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2021-02-27 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,   We had a week of sunspots.  Solar flux is up slightly with some auroral activity.  The sun is also rising earlier and setting later.  Buds are forming on my lilacs.  The hummingbird left during the last few weeks of snow.  It is almost time for them to come back :)    I am a

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2021-02-20 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    After two weeks a new sunspot has appeared.  We are also in a stream of solar wind.  Our ionosphere is being refreshed.  The auroral oval is strong at the moment.  Hopefully things will settle down a bit for tomorrow.  Noise levels are still fairly low maybe the signals will

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2021-02-13 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Two of three storms has passed through.  Luckily, there was little freezing rain, but there was a moderate amount of snow.  A foot so far but nothing like what's going on south and east of me.  Skiing in the Cascades will be good.   I built a new computer recently.  I

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2021-02-06 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,     Late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning I was awakened by a loud noise.  Then another.  It was a Barred Owl, right outside my window.  He kept it up for about thirty minutes, until he moved off and I fell back asleep.  They are regular visitors, as are Saw Whet owls. 

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2021-01-31 Thread Rich NE1EE
On 2021-01-30 20:34:-0800, kevinr wrote: >� After reading many recommendations for the Sony MDR-7506 headphones I >bought a pair.� They came with an adapter for the plug to switch from >1/8" to 3/8".� That is not unusual, what is new is the way it connects.� >Instead of simply plugging on

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2021-01-30 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It snowed for much of the week.  The trees would fill with about four inches, their limbs would bend almost to the ground.  I saw a number of birds taking advantage of the cover during the heaviest snowfall.  Some perched, looking forlorn, while the others kept searching the

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2021-01-23 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a good week.  I felt like the snail on the side of a well though.  Some successes, some failures but I am still on the side of the well.  I wonder what the snail feels like when he reaches the top and starts down the outside?  There was some sun shining into my well. 

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2021-01-16 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The sun has become more active.  There is one tiny sunspot with a group of them around the limb, ready to pounce.  The solar flux reading has yet to notice the new spots.  The auroral oval seems more pronounced.    Please notice a time change for the 40 meter net.  Signals

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2021-01-09 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I saw a large ball of burning gas in the sky today.  Then I realized it was the sun.  How soon we forget.  This sight was buffered by the stiff wind and chilly temperatures.  Smells like snow.  Good day for a hike.  I took a path quite less taken, steep in fact.  I found elk

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2021-01-02 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The year rang in with rain and fog.  I stepped outside to listen.  A minute later the local hummingbird buzzed my shoulder. He flew to a nearby branch and flashed his gorget at me.  Even on such a gray day it was very bright.  Resonance strikes again.    The sun's spots are

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2020-12-26 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I had sun for Christmas, what a change of pace.  Currently it is back to normal with fog and rain.  My lone hummingbird holdout is present at the feeder a few times a day.  I can't imagine what keeps him warm.    Solar flux is rising again - 88 sfu at the moment.  One of

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2020-12-19 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I spent the last week at Gloom Central ™️.  Shortened days, foggy weather, with near continuous rain broken only by the occasional snow fall.  It is peaceful.  Gets me to clean the house and cook a lot.  It would be a good time to lay radials but I am weak.   The sun is

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2020-12-12 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Snow line keeps moving either above me or below me.  I have had 2 inch flakes of snow falling while it is raining hard.  Then it all goes quiet as the snow prevails.  I have had as much as two inches of snow but for the moment there is less than an inch.    The sun is less

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2020-12-05 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Not much rain, a little sun, and a lot of wind.  What a week. The alders have been thinned.  The roads are covered with branches (trunks) up to six inches in diameter.  The rest will now grow faster.   The sun has had a string of active sunspot groups.  A few flares tossed

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2020-11-21 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a great morning.  Lots of sunshine with clear skies. The cool weather keeps the fog in the valleys and the mountain tops clear.  At night the fog dims the lights from towns nearby and the stars are bright.  I took a walk to check on the trees. It has grown too cold for

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2020-11-14 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It has been a wet, gray, and gloomy week.  So I completed my plumbing to do list.  The best part was not having to go to the hardware store to do so.  I had thought that was impossible. Today it has been very windy.  The trees are getting trimmed. Every minute or so there is

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-10-31 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a good week for mushrooms.  Cool nights, cool, sunny days.  Many large, red amanita popping up.  A large group of sunspots popped up too.  Solar activity has been higher over the last few weeks.  SFU was at 85, today it's at 80.  There were some flares but none

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2020-10-24 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a cool, gray week.  I'm sure the last hummingbird has left.  A front moved through and the temperature is dropping.  I think it rose to 42 today.   Tomorrow night should drop to 23 degrees, with snow by morning.  The plants are in the house.  One good thing is the

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2020-10-17 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I took a walk today to find more wood.  After two weeks of rain the sunny weather coaxed out quite a few mushrooms.  The chanterelle population was high before the thinning.  I thought it would take a few more years before they came back.  The slash is rotting into the soil

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-10-10 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It was a good week to sleep with the windows open.  Cool breeze, some rain, and a few owls.  One night it was a single Saw Whet owl filing away for hours.  The next night started with two owls making generic owl noises.  Then one of them broke into the familiar Barred Owl

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-10-03 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I have never seen a single elk.  They always appear in groups.  First three or four, and then more pop out of the background.  Unless they move it's hard to tell they are standing fifty feet away.  This week the wind was very light but coming toward me.  I saw a few out of

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-09-26 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I received over five inches of rain this week, the air is much fresher.  There is some solar activity: a sunspot, a G2 class storm, and higher flux readings.  It will be noisy but the signals may be stronger.  I expect QSB to be deep and rapid.  The nets will be

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2020-09-21 Thread Rich NE1EE
Actually, I use radians all the time. Probably one of the least recognized, but common, uses is in firearm scopes. My Falcon Optics M18+ 4-18-44 is mil/mil. WAY easier to scale than MOA. I have been metric for decades. Went that way in the 70s, and never looked back. Had to go to Canada to get

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2020-09-20 Thread Fred Jensen
You didn't have to use gradians too?  Smoke has cleared here in NW NV for the last two or so days, SW winds will likely bring it back tomorrow. 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 9/19/2020 9:22 PM, kevinr wrote: I spent the week writing some graphics code for a 3D

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-09-19 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    I went for a hike this afternoon.  The mist was hanging in the air.  It felt great to breath without smoke or ash in the air.  It has rained off and on for the last two days.  East of Portland they received over 2 inches.  Hopefully that held true farther south.  I noticed a

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2020-09-12 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    The wind switched direction on Tuesday to come out of the east.  Within an hour I could see the smoke flowing through the trees.  Then ash started falling.  Luckily the smoke did not smell like a local fire.  It was from a fire in the Gifford Pinchot Forest in Washington. 

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-09-05 Thread kevinr
Good Evening, Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)  7047 kHz at 0045z Monday (5:45 PM PDT Sunday)    73,   Kevin. KD5ONS _ __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

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2020-08-29 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It has been dropping into the 40s each night this week.  I almost started a fire in the woodstove. But, by noon it was back to 70 again.  I collected a lot of dry, bucked up wood and got my exercise.  Ten more truck loads and I'll be started.  While I was complaining to the

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2020-08-22 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It cooled off and got wet the last few days.  Fire danger dropped considerably.  Too bad the rain can't move south a few hundred miles.  There are no sunspots today, but in a day or two a group will pass over the limb.  Autumn is starting a little early.  It is going to be a

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-08-16 Thread Bill Frantz
Yesterday during NAQP, 40M was approaching decent at 0045z. All the bands were between bad and awful though. Good luck. 73 Bill AE6JV On 8/15/20 at 11:27 PM, kev...@coho.net (kevinr) wrote:   Remember the time change for forty meters.  I'll be monitoring by 0030z but won't start calling

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2020-08-15 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Fire danger got very high today.  It will be hot again tomorrow.  The highway to Seaside and Astoria was pretty full yesterday.  Hopefully none of those campers will start a fire. Luckily most of the heat will be gone by Wednesday.  There were some foggy mornings last week so

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2020-08-08 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    It has been well over a week since we have had a blank sun. Much better than the last year.  Maybe things are looking up. There was some radiation from a flare but no CME will arrive. Sunspot AR2770 is pointing at us so you never know.   There are some signs of fall.  A few

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-08-02 Thread Rich NE1EE
On 2020-08-01 19:39:-0700, kevinr wrote: >*MARVIN:* >I don�t think they�re very clever. There�s only one person as intelligent as >me within thirteen parsecs of here and that�s me. "I don�t think they�re very clever. There�s only one person as intelligent as I within thirteen parsecs of here,

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-08-02 Thread Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP
Maybe I'll invest 15 minutes of sleep time at 0030z tomorrow morning (0330 local). Who knows? I've never been able to hear the net, but maybe this time... 73, Victor, 4X6GP Rehovot, Israel Formerly K2VCO CWops no. 5 http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ On 02/08/2020 5:39, kevinr wrote: Good Evening,   

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2020-08-01 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,     I spent the last few days listening on twenty and forty meters.  The North American QSO Party is a good way to test my new antenna.  I have found the forty meter band picks up around 0030z.  The QSB flattens and the signals are easier to dig out. There is a noticeable

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-07-26 Thread Fred Jensen
It's a fairly simple antenna.  Yes, one radial is all you really "need," a couple more help improve efficiency and increase the BW.  In the olden daze [50's], we'd use 3 or 4 and cut them just a little different.  Also increased the BW, especially on 10, and in the later 50's, 10 was open

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-07-26 Thread Rick NK7I
The reading I've done says only one radial is required; that the 'favoring' in the direction of the radial is not enough to be worried about; that there is no cancellation from opposing (or just more) radials.  I have used a single radial ground plane and found this to be true (at 6' over dirt

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-07-26 Thread George Kidder
I use one just like this on 30M, and have always thought of it as a ground plane.  The drooping radials give a good match to 50 ohms. 73 - George, W3HBM On 7/26/2020 2:36 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: [This message came from an external source. If suspicious, report to

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-07-26 Thread Don Wilhelm
Fred, That would be correct if they are oriented at 180 degrees from each other so as to cancel the horizontal radiation. Elevated radials must be tuned to be effective, but only 2 are needed. How much tuning will depend on the height above ground. 73, Don W3FPR On 7/26/2020 2:36 PM,

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2020-07-26 Thread Fred Jensen
Ground Plane? 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 7/25/2020 8:20 PM, kevinr wrote:    An antenna design is stuck in my head.  It consists of three legs, each 1/4 wavelength long.  One leg is vertical while the two radials are 120 degrees below it.  The two radials

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2020-07-25 Thread kevinr
Good Evening,    Another cool week but there was more sun, the undergrowth is filling in the scars from the timber thinning operation.  The deer and elk trails are becoming more regular and easier to follow. Previously they trended east to west but now there are a few north south paths.  The

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