Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th 11th, 2011

2011-07-11 Thread Al Lorona
Kevin, When I was a kid walking with my grampa on a beautifully sunny day between the rows of cornstalks in his backyard, often he'd turn to me and say, in Spanish, It's gonna rain. I would ask him how he knew that, and he would point to his knees. His joints apparently could tell him that

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th 11th, 2011

2011-07-11 Thread Dave Sergeant
On 10 Jul 2011 at 20:11, Kevin Rock wrote: According to SpaceWeather.com there are many spots on the sun but they are not improving propagation. During the last few months I keep checking to see if my antenna has fallen down. Depends on what you class as 'many spots'. Most of them are

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th 11th, 2011

2011-07-11 Thread Gary D Krause
I've noticed the same thing. It's as if something is absorbing our signals. Things are happening!!! Gary, N7HTS On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:11:07 -0700 Kevin Rock kev...@coho.net wrote: Good Evening, What in the world has happened to propagation lately? On twenty meters before the net

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th 11th, 2011

2011-07-11 Thread Merv Schweigert
Its been kept a secret for a few years now but is bound to come to light, its been found that during a weekend with high activity, such as a contest all the K3s that are on the air suck the RF from the bands, Everyone using the K3 is searching for every stray smidgen of RF out there and as we all

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th 11th, 2011

2011-07-11 Thread Gary Gregory
I can report as a FT for the 'new' RF TX board (KTXRF3) that in a recent contest we were told we were the only station that could be heard on the bands. It appears to be working well and maybe a tweak or two to the FW is all that is required prior to production. Gary On 12 July 2011 01:46, Merv

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th 11th, 2011

2011-07-10 Thread Kevin Rock
Good Evening, What in the world has happened to propagation lately? On twenty meters before the net I scanned the band and found a number of folks on the air. But when I called the net I heard nothing for the entire time. First skunk for me in nine years. I guess it had to happen

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th 11th, 2011

2011-07-10 Thread Mark Stennett
I heard no traffic on 40 this time. Propagation to TX was not working. On 07/10/2011 10:11 PM, Kevin Rock wrote: Good Evening, What in the world has happened to propagation lately? On twenty meters before the net I scanned the band and found a number of folks on the air. But when I