[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Good Evening, Most of the week was sunny and mild. Today it is foggy and wet. More normal weather for February. The sun has had an active week and it is not done yet. More flares, another CME on the way. The large sunspot group in the middle of the sun exploded in size. 6 X class flares so far, I expect it to send a few more CMEs at us. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Thanks, I'll check it out! Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, January 31, 2026, 20:54, kevin via Elecraft wrote: Good Evening, A rainy, cool week ended with a very nice sunny day. It was warm enough for bugs to hatch. A few early daffodil sprouts are taking their chances. It is January 31st and they're not due to bloom until April. Normally they get covered by six to ten inches of snow before then. I followed elk trails around the SE part of the property. They like bedding under the younger trees there. They also catch the morning sun. The sun had an active week. Now it appears to be taking a nap. Spaceweather.com says, "activity will remain low this weekend". The current crop of sunspots are tiny compared to those of last week. We may have lower noise and less QSB. But the only way to know is to test propagation yourself. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought-to-support-neurons-astrocytes-turn-out-to-be-in-charge-20260130/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Good Evening, A rainy, cool week ended with a very nice sunny day. It was warm enough for bugs to hatch. A few early daffodil sprouts are taking their chances. It is January 31st and they're not due to bloom until April. Normally they get covered by six to ten inches of snow before then. I followed elk trails around the SE part of the property. They like bedding under the younger trees there. They also catch the morning sun. The sun had an active week. Now it appears to be taking a nap. Spaceweather.com says, "activity will remain low this weekend". The current crop of sunspots are tiny compared to those of last week. We may have lower noise and less QSB. But the only way to know is to test propagation yourself. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought-to-support-neurons-astrocytes-turn-out-to-be-in-charge-20260130/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been a sunny, mild week. Much less rain than normal; less fog too. I have been able to see Jupiter rising in the east after sunset. I took a walk today to explore the SE corner of my property. Some storm damage along the property line where new growth meets my older growth forest. Lots of spiders, but few webs; they are 'parachuting' around. The sun was almost bare on Monday. Today the sunspot number is over 100 with a few threatening areas. Solar wind is coming in at around 700 km/s. There are aurora showing up at high latitudes. Spot number 4341 was flaring before it crossed the limb. Now it is simply threatening. Tomorrow we can use my antennas to check the propagation. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I woke up in the middle of the night and could not get back to sleep. I grabbed my laptop and woke it up too. The sky was clear so my net connection was good. I pulled up websdr.org to find an open band. I logged onto a link to Half Moon Bay and switched to 40 meters. Once I found an ongoing QSO I flipped back to watching hummingbirds in Panama. The CW was coming in while blue and green birds were competing for spots on their feeder. Then I thought about describing what I was doing to my dad. He was a radio amateur in the early 1930s so knew his code. He later used that skill on B17s and B24s as the radio man. Here I was listening to CW with a computer on my lap to stations from an antenna in another state. As I was trying to frame a description for him I thought about the connection. My laptop is running a waterfall displaying the whole forty meter band inside of a browser. I am picking one signal out of that. My laptop is talking to my access point wirelessly. The AP connects to a switch and then to my router which connects to the wireless dish on my roof. This connects to the top of the mountain which relays my signal to Hillsboro where the signal goes into the net. The signal flows from Hillsboro to Half Moon Bay via the net. If that station is hooked directly to the net the next connection is his antenna. That antenna is receiving the two operators in QSO I mentioned earlier. So, in order: laptop to AP - two antennas; WiFi dish to top of mountain - two antennas; WiFi connection from mountain to Hillsboro - two more antennas; then the Half Moon Bay station's antenna wirelessly connected to two other antennas of those ops in QSO. If the Half Moon Bay station is connected to the net directly the antenna total is = 9. How could I have ever explained this to my dad before his eyes glazed over? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Good Evening,
It was a gray week, much of it spent at the dew point. The dense
fog blocks my net access; enough so to be annoying. This prompted me to
build a web server on my network. Makes site maintenance much simpler.
I can watch my pages open quickly, as if I had a fantastic connection.
This helped me edit my Lorentz force page. If you are interested in how
an electron moves in a mixed magnetic electric field follow the link below.
The sun tossed a CME our way, and then another. They may join to
form a more powerful cloud. The fog, and my distance from the magnetic
north pole limit my view. But there may be some aurora tonight. This
will roil the ionosphere. So, as ever, expect a variety of QSB
tomorrow. And a mix of random sounds. Let's test propagation again.
Please join us on (or near):
14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday)
7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) {Ten minutes after local
sunset}
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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Don't let the link's name concern you. I used the explosion metaphor to
generate my electron clouds. However, with a decent color palette I'm
sure I could create some interesting fireworks displays too. Currently
the palette is for black body radiation: black to red to yellow to
white. Good for illustrating differences in temperature, not for fireworks.
http://bacona.design/fireworks.html
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Good Evening, There was less rain this week. After the deluge of last week this was easy to achieve. However, there was sun. Hours of it; unseasonable sunny :) Good thing the rain has returned. There were a few minutes of snow flakes. None of them got to the ground, but I saw them falling. We may get hit by two CMEs in succession or combination, depends on the timing. Enough to cause a G2 class storm. I would expect QRN and QSB, but, then I always do and am pleasantly surprised when I am wrong. The only way to truly test propagation is to open the box and see if the cat is still alive. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - My compiler keeps me on the straight and narrow path. It also keeps me humble :) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Good Evening, It was a mostly foggy week, maybe five minutes of raking sunlight. The mountain is in the way for much of the day, but it's hard to tell with all the storms. Lots of rain. Buckets. Today it snowed for a few minutes, then back to rain. The sun has more spots this week. However, the larger ones are not the most active. One on the eastern limb flared earlier today. 4321 was forecast to flare but it hasn't done so yet. Currently it is in a very good location to affect the earth. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Hi Kevin, This is Al Montoye W8RBF from Michigan. I’ve been on the reflector email list for some time. I’ve tried to check in a few times but have been successful only once on 20m. A good friend, John Gibson NO8V, told me about the net several years ago so I occasionally tune in. I usually look at your contacts list on Sunday evening to see who checked in and NO8V is usually there. He looked forward to that QSO every week. Sadly I must report that John passed away this week at age 90. He was a beloved physics professor at Alma College and a mentor to countless hams. His wife Jean and two children and their families survive him. Al Montoye W8RBF On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM kevin via Elecraft < [email protected]> wrote: > Good Evening, > > It has been a wet, windy week. A day without power too. Nights are > very long this time of year. My stack of dry wood had dwindled to > enough left for a day. I brought in a few loads to be ready for a > longer outage. Just when I sat down after the chore the power > returned. Then it went out a few minutes later. More trees falling. > > The sun is mostly bare of sunspots. Solar flux is still high > though. We are due for a blast of solar wind on the 24th. There may be > less QSB than last week. I expect the noise level to be about the > same. However, you never know the conditions unless you get on the air. > > > Please join us on (or near): > > 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) > 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) > > > 73, >Kevin. KD5ONS > > > > > > - > > > > > > https://www.quantamagazine.org/particle-physicists-detect-magic-at-the-large-hadron-collider-20251125/ > > > > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Good Evening, It has been a wet, windy week. A day without power too. Nights are very long this time of year. My stack of dry wood had dwindled to enough left for a day. I brought in a few loads to be ready for a longer outage. Just when I sat down after the chore the power returned. Then it went out a few minutes later. More trees falling. The sun is mostly bare of sunspots. Solar flux is still high though. We are due for a blast of solar wind on the 24th. There may be less QSB than last week. I expect the noise level to be about the same. However, you never know the conditions unless you get on the air. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/particle-physicists-detect-magic-at-the-large-hadron-collider-20251125/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, I took advantage of the rare sunny day to take a hike. Even though it was mild there were no spider webs and few birds. I found many signs the deer had been out before me. No elk sign though, I think one of their hunting seasons is still open. The stormy week brought a great deal of rain. Snow is in the forecast but not quite low enough for me. By the time it reaches my elevation it will be slush or rain. I have another 12 days. We are in a stream of solar wind. The noise floor rose with steady hissing and other odd sounds. QSB should be moderate and varied. The forty meter net will be after dark for everyone east of me, plus a few to the west :) I expect the band to be changing from the beginning of the net until its end. 40 meters has been working lately, we can test it again tomorrow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - KEEPER Stop! What is your name? ARTHUR It is Arthur, King of the Britons. KEEPER What is your quest? ARTHUR To seek the Holy Grail. KEEPER What is the air-speed of an unladen swallow? ARTHUR What do you mean? An African or European swallow? KEEPER What? I don't know that! Agh! BEDEVERE How do you know so much about swallows? ARTHUR Well, you have to know these things when you're a king. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, There were moments of sunshine this week. Mostly sun beams just after sunrise and just before sunset. The rest of the time it was cloudy, foggy and rainy. I saw a movement outside this window yesterday. Not a bird, it was a vole. It spent about fifteen minutes harvesting lichen from a fir trunk. Food or bedding material? Probably both, lichen is nutritious, deer love it. It also insulates. The sun is covered. Mostly by one large sunspot group. It was spewing ions as it passed over the sun's limb but has been quiet since then. Lots of energy is tied up waiting to burst. It will take another four or five days before it is not aimed in our direction. Currently solar flux is high; we are in a stream of solar wind. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I have taught my fireworks they are matter: they have mass, and take up space. The former lets them be affected by gravity fields. The latter counts when they hit either the earth or the moon in this simulation: http://bacona.design/fireworks.html My next step is to give them electrical charge and teach them about magnetic fields. Those particles which hit the earth will interact in the ionosphere. The Lorentz force equation will change their velocities. Ions moving around in a magnetic field create an electric field. Maybe one day I'll take that step too. A little more about P. A. M. Dirac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-W-w8yNiKU __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Yesterday I read, "After three days blowing faster than 700 km/s, the solar wind is slowing down. Intermittent G1-class geomagnetic storms registered on Nov. 25-27 will now subside, setting the stage for a quiet weekend." I checked spaceweather.com again today, "A potentially dangerous sunspot is emerging over the sun's southeastern limb. Yesterday, while it was still partially eclipsed by the edge of the sun, it produced an impulsive M6-class solar flare. A pulse of extreme ultraviolet radiation from this flare ionized Earth's upper atmosphere, producing a minor shortwave radio blackout over the South Pacific Ocean. Radio transmissions at frequencies below 20 MHz 'browned out' around 22:22 UTC on Nov. 28th." Expect the unexpected :) I awoke to clear, cold, sunny skies today. It has been foggy and stormy all week. A few sunny days will be nice. A last chance to prune things back before the snow falls. I have not heard heavy equipment hauling trucks this week. They must have it all their gear in place. In a week or two there will be a stream of log trucks of fir, cedar, and hemlock logs on their way through Vernonia. Big news: Banks, Oregon now has TWO stop lights. Wow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://spaceweather.com/ Aerodynamics of a football https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3i3F2e4IYs How to make a sword from sand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt6WQYtefXA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun is fairly quiet at the moment. The large sunspot group which sent numerous CMEs is due back Thanksgiving day. Until then conditions will be less unsettled. Cooler weather brought more sunshine. Morning fog falls below me so I am on top of the clouds. I know there was frost below me but it hasn't happened up here yet. The colder air flows into the valleys. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Lithium ion battery development research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGglJehON5g How electricity really works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, QSB was light to moderate on both bands. Noise was moderate and variable. Propagation did change during and between nets. The forty meter net started after sunset. I expect we will need to move it a little earlier over the winter. Let's see how it goes. On 14050.5 kHz at 2300z: K0DTJ - Brian - CA W0CZ - Ken - ND WJ7S - John - UT K4JPN - Steve - GA K4TO - Dave - KY K6XK - Roy - IA W8OV - Dave - TX On 7047.5 kHz at 0100z: W0CZ - Ken - ND K4TO - Dave - KY K0DTJ - Brian - CA K6PJV - Dale - CA WM5F - Dwight - ID Until next week 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-moves-from-waking-life-to-sleep-and-back-again-20251017/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun has had a busy week tossing CMEs at us. The ionosphere is roiled. We are due for another ion injection sometime tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how propagation changes during and between nets. It has been foggy during the day and cloudy at night. I was not able to see the auroral display this week. Multiple showers have flattened the bracken fern and stripped trees of leaves. Heavy rain also removes dead fir needles. Mushrooms are popping up all over, feasting on previous layers of fern parts, leaves, and fir needles. Nutrients cycle through the system quickly. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-balances-excitation-and-inhibition-20250929/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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We are definitely going metric Kevin, inch by inch. 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County -- Original Message -- From "kevin via Elecraft" To "Elecraft Reflector" Date 11/8/2025 4:43:25 PM Subject [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement Good Evening, I hiked the southern edge of the property to take advantage of the sunny day. Alders have self pruned; in some cases the entire tree. They don't like to lose direct sunlight. Now there is open space where the elk and deer bed down. Ferns have fallen due to the cold. This let me see the ground and avoid mountain beaver holes. I stepped on a hoof hardened elk trail and thought I was on stable ground. A few steps later my left foot was stuck a foot below ground level in one of their burrows. It took a minute to get free; good thing they had loosened the soil. The sun is quite active. At least two CMEs have hit the earth's ionosphere. More are due in succession. Spaceweather.com reports we are currently in a geomagnetic storm. QSB should be quite interesting tomorrow. Hopefully the noise will not overwhelm our signals. We shall see. Note the time change: local time remains the same (in most parts of the US) while the universal time changes. One day we may shed ourselves of Ben's innovation, the US may also turn metric. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - If I could not laugh at myself there would be much less humor in my life. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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The US did try to turn metric many years ago, without real success. The auto industry has gone to many metric sized bolts and nuts, but I still need both metric and US sized wrenches - it makes my toolbox much heavier! As far as time goes, My preference would be to stay on Daylight Saving Time, but many will not agree depending on which side to our time zone that we are located. I personally prefer the extended evening light and wake up much after sunrise. Here in the middle on North Carolina, on Standard Time, it gets dark enough to turn the lights on at 4 PM, and the sun wakes me at about 7AM right now. I am not a 'morning person' and am retired so I don't have reason to get up early in the morning. Those further West in the time zone will have other opinions. Those further North have more twilight time than we do here, so 'it all depends'. 73, Don W3FPR On 11/8/2025 7:43 PM, kevin via Elecraft wrote: Good Evening, One day we may shed ourselves of Ben's innovation, the US may also turn metric. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - If I could not laugh at myself there would be much less humor in my life. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Good Evening, I hiked the southern edge of the property to take advantage of the sunny day. Alders have self pruned; in some cases the entire tree. They don't like to lose direct sunlight. Now there is open space where the elk and deer bed down. Ferns have fallen due to the cold. This let me see the ground and avoid mountain beaver holes. I stepped on a hoof hardened elk trail and thought I was on stable ground. A few steps later my left foot was stuck a foot below ground level in one of their burrows. It took a minute to get free; good thing they had loosened the soil. The sun is quite active. At least two CMEs have hit the earth's ionosphere. More are due in succession. Spaceweather.com reports we are currently in a geomagnetic storm. QSB should be quite interesting tomorrow. Hopefully the noise will not overwhelm our signals. We shall see. Note the time change: local time remains the same (in most parts of the US) while the universal time changes. One day we may shed ourselves of Ben's innovation, the US may also turn metric. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - If I could not laugh at myself there would be much less humor in my life. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The week had a little sun, a lot of rain, with enough wind to kill the power. It has calmed down. Fall colors are past their peak. Loggers are moving heavy equipment for the rainy season harvesting. Helicopters to move Christmas trees will start soon. The deer and elk have vanished due to all the activity. Hunters driving by on the hour may have something to do with their absence. The sun has very few spots, all of them are quiet. Flux is still high. One spot on the back side of the sun is sending a series of CMEs. None of them are aimed at us. Next week they will be pointed in our direction. Day length and sun angle are changing quickly. Last week twenty meters worked to the Atlantic Ocean as well as Portland, Oregon. The forty meter net is getting closer to local sunset. Propagation will change quicker than it did last week. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, There was steady rain and fog all week. The sun has tossed another CME our way. However, it is not due until Monday. The current crop of sunspots are stable and quiet. Solar flux is still fairly high, expect static hiss. QSB may be weaker than last week. Cross your fingers here. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Autumn is proceeding. Leaves falling allow more sun to hit the forest floor. This brings the mushrooms out, then the birds which fluff up the leaf, needle, and fern clutter. I noticed an oddly colored bird in a tree. Then I recognized him; he was not in the usual location, you don't normally see Varied Thrush from below. When the forest floor dries out between showers flocks of them work in expanding rings fluffing up the forest clutter. Robins come along in a second wave to take advantage of any exposed multi-legged creatures. The mushrooms are uncovered too. The sun is quite active this week. A series of CMEs have either hit, or are still on the way. There should be aurora tonight but cloud cover won't let me check. There will be periods of G1 level solar storms over the next day. Expect a moderate level of noise and a goodly amount of QSB, nothing unusual :) Comet Lemmon is near its closest approach to earth. Binoculars will help but are not required. The solar storms are shaking its tail. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/overview https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Varied_Thrush/overview __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Cool temperatures with intermittent showers created mushrooms. I saw yellow and white Chanterelle caps pushing through layers of fir needles. There were quail near the road with grouse through out the forest. More leaves have fallen so you can see farther. Fog dropped from tree top level to near the ground, then slowly rose again; the trees rain more or less accordingly. Compared to last week the sun is almost bare of sunspots. However, we are due for a stream of high speed solar wind. That should liven things up a bit. The sun angle will affect the forty meter net. That net will begin about an hour before dusk. By the end of the net the sun will have dropped below the local horizon. Propagation may change quickly. We will find out tomorrow. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Proving something which should be obvious: https://www.quantamagazine.org/genes-have-harnessed-physics-to-help-grow-living-things-20251010/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a rainy, cool, and foggy week. Right after last week's forty meter net I walked along the driveway. I'm not sure who flushed first but I was met by an explosion of California Quail mixed with a few Ruffed Grouse. Their favorite berries are ripe. During a break in the rain later in the week I saw one, then many, Turkey Vultures ridge soaring their way south. The sun is unsettled. There is a small CME due mid-week. Solar flux is up, creating green and even pink aurora. If twenty meters is not blasted by noise, propagation there should be OK. Forty meters will keep improving since the sun is moving quickly southward. But early fall thunderstorms will blast away a few characters. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/California_Quail/overview https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruffed_Grouse/overview https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Turkey_Vulture/overview __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun is covered with sun spots but the most active area is just crossing the limb. Flux is high and there were a few minor CMEs this week. QSB should be varied which may prove useful for the weakest signals. There is less smoke in the air. A week of rain starts tomorrow. Hopefully that will put an end to the many fires in the Northwest. Gray Jays and Juncos are migrating downward. They live in the canopy all summer so their calls are not uncommon. You just don't see them very often. The Steller's Jays are a bit put out because they live down here all year; their range just shrank. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-eyed_Junco/overview https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Canada_Jay/overview https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Stellers_Jay/overview __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun has slowly repopulated with spots. Currently there are a number of large groups. One of them may send something our way. We had a magnetic storm earlier in the week so the ionosphere is awake. Expect the usual QSB. Smoke has kept the air hazy all week. Fog and a little rain clears it out for a day, but both the Willamette and the Columbia River valleys keep funneling it from the forest fires to the ocean. Hopefully tonight's forecast rain will help the fire fighters and damp down a few of those fires. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - There's battle lines being drawn And nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking their minds Are gettin' so much resistance from behind __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun has few spots this week. They are currently stable. The solar flux is still above 100. QSB should be less deep, you never can tell. Noise may even be lower. Again, this is a mystery. Tomorrow we can test twenty meters and then a little later try forty meters. More leaves have fallen, the forest is changing color and starting to smell like fall. Dense fog most nights has cleared the majority of the smoke from the air. Sunsets are less red, mid-day sun is closer its G2 spectrum. My begonias are red again :) I have not seen an elk or a deer in about a month. I have been seeing bow and black powder hunters cruising by around dawn and again at dusk. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Thunder started about 2 AM; it is rare around here. A cold front moved through with rain, wind, and lightning. The power stayed on but I unplugged all of my antennas. Normally thunderstorms stay in the Columbia River valley and move around me. This one was closer. I need to remember to hook up the antennas again. Hummingbirds have left my area, but I can watch some interesting species here: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/panama-hummingbird-feeders/ For the last few days there have been more species passing through. Some of them are pretty large. The sun was very active this week. A CME should hit some time tomorrow. There are fewer spots at the moment. Early in the week the sun was full of them. 4207 may send us another flare or two before it passes over the limb. If it were not so foggy I may see some aurora. As it is the fog is slowing my web connection to a crawl; the top of the mountain is in the clouds. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/panama-hummingbird-feeders/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a hazy, warm week. I can't smell the smoke, the fires are too distant, but it makes the sun dark orange. Sunsets have been orange to red for the last few weeks. Makes the forest into an odd shade of gray. More leaves are changing color and falling. I'm not sure if it is from the smoke or a sign of an early fall. Rodents have been very active. The hummingbirds disappeared within the last two weeks. The sun has many large, complex sunspot groups. A few of them are quite active. There may be M to X class flares tomorrow. Propagation could be challenging. I expect a number of thunder storms to affect signals. Sounds like a normal Sunday net :) Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24&dim=1&refresh=true https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-thirsty-20250811/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sunspot number has dropped below 100. Solar flux is still high at 121 sfu. There have been a few CMEs from spots on the back side of the sun. Those spots will be facing us later in the week. However, tomorrow there should be a window of opportunity. We can work our way through the flux and flares and summer storms. Summer storms have been infrequent. If it were not for the nightly fog the fire danger would be quite high. Loggers begin at 3 AM, I could set a clock by them. The strange thing is the unloaded log trucks pass by my house, while the loaded ones do not. They must have cut another route off the mountain. Between the deer and the rabbits the area has been cleared of salal leaves. They retain their ripe fruit though. Snow berries are also ripe so there will be either Spruce or Ruffed Grouse here soon. They add a little excitement to the day. If it is windy they flush only when you are right on top of them. But it is nothing like having a covey of quail explode around you :) Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Salal: https://nativeplantspnw.com/salal-gaultheria-shallon/ I found out I was miss-identifying bear berries. The ones in the forest are called snow berries. Snow berry: https://nativeplantspnw.com/common-snowberry-symphoricarpos-albus/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The current crop of sunspots is stable and quiet. There may be a minor geomagnetic storm late tomorrow. Propagation will improve as we head into Autumn. There are a few signs of fall. Leaves are dropping with some color changes. The last foxglove blossom fell last week. A few days of hot weather were followed by fog, rain, and cool temperatures. There have been ~ten days above 90 degrees since April, those will not return until next year. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you! https://www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-appears-to-be-leaking-up-and-out-of-earths-surface-20250804/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Three inches of rain fell over two days this week. There was no runoff. The slow, steady rain soaked right in. You could hear the forest sigh. Fire danger is much lower. One doe has been browsing the backyard each evening at dusk. Oregon grape is ripe but I think she only eats their leaves. The sun grew more active this week. We are in an ion storm now. Another CME is on the way. Sunspot 4168 is unstable and in a great position to affect the Earth. Conditions could be challenging tomorrow. Cool :) Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/stellers-jay https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/panama-hummingbird-feeders/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun has been quiet for most of the week. There is one large sunspot group lurking on the far side while some of the visible spots are growing, 4167 may become more active tomorrow. Solar flux is still high so there will be lightning discharge mixed with particle noise. Fire danger has risen. This morning I awoke to the sound of rain which keeps the forest moist. It was quite foggy so I'm not sure if it was falling from the sky or from the trees. Later in the week there will be rain showers so I will know its source. The Yellow Warblers were only around for one day last week. Normally they are here for a week or two. Maybe they're looking for a warmer spot. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/yellow-warbler https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow_Warbler/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was another cool, foggy week. Yellow Warblers are passing through, eating fresh seeds and flowers. I noticed a flock of them causing a bush to shake. The bees did not seem to mind, but the butterflies hung on for dear life or shook free. Sunspots are balanced above and below the solar equator. They are stable but a small CME is due some time tomorrow. As ever I expect summer storm noise and QSB; without them there would be no challenge :) Let's test the ionosphere again tomorrow. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The week began hot and dry. Then nighttime fog returned. Nights in the mid 50s, sunny days in the low 70s. The added moisture is boosting berry production. In the last week I ate wild strawberries, huckleberries, thimble berries, black raspberries, and a few salmon berries. The forest holds a variety of scents. Lots of bird, bee, and butterfly activity around the new flowers. A flock of immature Gray jays followed me during my hike today. I'm not sure if the flock remained the same or if they worked in relays. Our sun is covered with sunspot groups. Some large and unstable; most less so. Solar flux is high so we have plenty of ions to bounce signals around. Hopefully they will bounce in the right direction. I expect QSB will be moderate to high this week. Summer storms seem to affect the forty meter net more than the twenty meter one. It takes a while for thunderstorms to mature. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithm-factors-numbers-with-one-qubit-20250609/ https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/identify/region/united-states __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Summer is here. Fewer foggy mornings with more warm, sunny days. A doe in her red summer coat spent an hour nibbling salal and bramble leaves. She walked a few feet into the ferns and disappeared. Many transient birds are passing through. I hear their calls for a day or two and then they're gone. The sun has grown new spots. Active ones. There is also an equatorial hole in the sun's atmosphere spewing a stream of high speed ions. We are under a G1 level geomagnetic storm watch. Should be noisy with all manner of QSB. I'll know better by this time tomorrow. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Some interesting articles: https://uhu.epss.hu/en/tle-phenomena/ Transient Luminous Events https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ecosystem-dynamics-that-can-make-or-break-an-invasion-20250616/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, There were more warm sunny days this week with less fog. The lavender foxgloves are blooming beside orange Columbia Lilies. The bracken ferns are almost fully unrolled, standing up to ten feet tall. The sword fern are bright green covering much of the forest floor. New leaves have not yet been nibbled by insects; they are present in beds of foam, or a leaf curling in on itself. The sun has fewer sunspots, none of them are currently unstable. There was a CME earlier in the week. The flux level is still elevated so there will be a steady hiss. Propagation may be OK this week. Let's find out tomorrow. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.gardenia.net/plant/lilium-columbianum https://intocascadia.com/2016/10/28/an-easy-guide-to-ferns-of-the-pacific-northwest/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystichum_munitum __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun has been quite active all week. Sunspot number 4114 flared a number of times, causing RF black outs around the world. That spot will be geoeffective for a few more days; maybe it will flare again tomorrow. But I will work through the noise to find you. QSB can boost a signal long enough to verify a call sign. Spring is holding on. Currently it is 52 F with rain and fog. Much like the previous four months :) But it is officially summer. A number of new birds have shown up. I heard the first Varied Thrush of the year. I saw a Pileated Woodpecker chasing a Steller's Jay. The woodpecker was quite annoyed, I don't envy the jay. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://em.geosci.xyz/content/maxwell1_fundamentals/index.html https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_18.html https://em.geosci.xyz/content/maxwell1_fundamentals/formative_laws/ampere_maxwell.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The chilly weather has made the hummingbird feeder quite popular. The Black Headed Grosbeak moved back to where I first heard him three years ago. His call has better projection from the higher perch. The jays are no longer a menace to themselves or others; their flying skills are much improved. The sun is growing more speckled. A minor CME hit earlier in the week causing another geomagnetic storm. While this storm is abating more flare activity is probable. As ever, propagation depends on the sun, timing, skill, antennas, and luck. Let's test each characteristic tomorrow. < cross fingers here /> Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithm-factors-numbers-with-one-qubit-20250609/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-just-entropy-rising-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Cool, sunny days have progressed to warm, sunny days. The Black Headed Grosbeak is back, but using a different tree as home base. Larger butterflies are visiting fresh flowers. The honeysuckle vines east of me are attracting hummingbirds too. They add another scent to the environment. The bracken fern are a month away from their full growth. Many are over eight feet tall; their tops have not unrolled. In two to three years they will be feeding my trees. The sun has calmed down. The sunspot number is low, while the flux is still above 100. Multiple solar storms have hit us during the last week. The ionosphere should be in prime condition as long as the flares have abated. Maybe tomorrow the bands will be favorable. I just remembered an anniversary: the Elecraft CW Net is 23 years old. First net was held on June 6th, 2002 to commemorate the same day in 1944. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Why didn't I take the blue pill? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, A few days of sunshine, with temperatures into the low 70s, made the forest much greener. The intervening cool, rainy days helped too. The ferns are about eight feet tall, just beginning to unroll. A wave of new birds are adding their calls to the day. Salmon berries are starting to turn orange. Wild strawberries are blooming. The sun has been active this week, sending us ions in a variety of ways. We are awaiting the CME aimed directly at us from sunspot 4100. It will cause a severe geomagnetic storm sometime on June 1st. You never know what will happen nor when. You may or may not be able to hear me. I may hear a wall of noise and little else. However, that is why we run these nets: to report propagation each week. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - If you don't have enough reading material you can search here for more: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html Such as: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Radio_Magazine_Guide.htm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, A wet, cool week has been followed by a very pleasant, sunny day. Many flowers are blooming, more birds are moving into the undergrowth, while the biting flies remain few. The Pileated woodpeckers have been busy creating rectangular holes in the cedar trees. I found many of the old openings being used by the jays for storage. The larger openings are a good fit for Saw whet owls. The sun has more spots this week; all are stable. Solar flux is still fairly high. There were a few flares earlier in the week but no CMEs are due to strike us. However, Mercury is currently getting hit by one, Hopefully conditions will be better than they have been for the last few weeks. We shall see. Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Life is what happens while you're making other plans. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Saw-whet_Owl/id https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/id __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The ferns are now tall enough to hide a feeding elk. I noticed this while standing on the front deck. I said something to a passing hummingbird when the facing hillside sprouted big brown heads. First one, then many, then even more. There must have been forty of them when they all departed stage right. After the ferns are fully unrolled their passing will only produce a wave in the undergrowth. The sun may not have a lot of spots but one group keeps flaring. We are currently in a geomagnetic storm stirred by a passing CME. There may be more on the way due to the exuberance of sunspot #4087. Conditions could be better than they have been over the last few weeks. I imagine they will be different and let it go at that :) Please join us on (or near) : 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - For all you sinister folks out there :) https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-universe-differs-from-its-mirror-image-20250514/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, I took a walk today, before the ground is hidden by the now five foot tall ferns. There were enough no-see-ums to notice. The forest floor is quite green with new growth, no stick tights or burrs are mature. More birds too, the hummingbird feeder drained so quickly I thought there was a leak. Then I found four new males jousting with the one who has been here for weeks. A Pileated Woodpecker has been scouting the property for a new home. It drops below freezing each night, but it is warm enough each day to attract turkey vultures. They clean up after the mountain lions. False Solomon's Seal and flowering dogwood are in bloom. The ominous sunspot from the last two weeks is passing beyond the limb. Maybe it will flare on the other side. The solar wind has been strong all week. I expect a steady hiss with less QSB than last week. Hopefully propagation will not be deterred. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The ionosphere is being buffeted by a solar wind storm. There is a large, unstable sunspot aimed our way. If it flares we'll get even more ions, quickly. Hopefully, it will not blow before tomorrow's nets. We shall see. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, A sunny week has the fir trees blooming. The pollen looks like yellow smoke when a breeze catches the limbs. Bracken fern are four feet tall and starting to unroll. The sword ferns are unrolling their fuzzy, new growth. The forest floor is filling in. The sun has been throwing a lot of ions our way but no spots are flaring at the moment. There are many spots but they are stable. Maybe propagation will be good with lighter QSB. We will find out tomorrow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofilms-strange-shape-emerges-from-cellular-geometry-20250421/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a sunny, cool week with few biting flies. The freeze cycle has disturbed their hatch. It is nice to be outside without them. There is a new woodpecker in the forest. He was pounding on a branch high in a tree at a speed I have not heard before. I never saw him so an ID will be difficult. The sun has been active. There is a solar storm due tomorrow from a stream of solar wind. Propagation could be spotty, as it was last week. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Another sunny rainy week with more leaves, flowers, birds, and bugs. Hopefully tonight's frost will settle in the valleys. A few deer are out at dusk, sampling the new growth. The sun has been busy. Three solar storms this week, none of them very strong. Sunspot 4055 is producing M class flares. They could get stronger, and more effective. There should be stronger hissing tomorrow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Our direct connection to the sun: https://spaceweather.com/repeat_images/parkerspiral2.png __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening,
It was a good week; my to do list could not keep up with me. I think
it was the sun. Mix in a little rain and you get a lot more flowers.
And hummingbirds. The sun also sent more ions. We are currently inside
a stream of solar wind. There was an X class flare a few days ago. The
ionosphere should be ready for us tomorrow. QSB will add interest.
Please join us on (or near):
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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I am modeling the motion of a charged particle through a magnetic field,
by implementing the Lorentz Force equation. Only the magnetic portion
for now, the electric part comes later. Using vectors makes the code
more readable and compact.
This is a rough draft of a streak pattern to display charged particle
motion:
void streak( void )
{
struct spark F; // Force field
float q = 1.6e-19; // Electron charge Ampere*second
float Me = 9.1e-31; // Electron mass in kilograms
struct vt ptC; // Screen point
struct pt Fm; // Magnetic component of Lorentz Force in
Newtons
struct pt Vv = vector( 5e5, 0.0, 0.0 ); // 500 km/second
float dt = 1e-2; // Seconds
F.B = vector( 0.0, 1e-5, 0.0 ); // Vertical 1 Gauss field
Fm = vecMult( vecCrossVec( Vv, F.B ), q ); // Magnetic component
of the Lorentz Force
for(int i=0; i SelectObject( bkhdc, pn[ ray[ i ].col ] ); // Choose preset
pen color
if(( ray[i].X.x > 100.0 ) && ( ray[i].X.x < 400.0 )) // In the
field
{ // F/m = a
ray[i].X = vecPlusVec( ray[i].X, vecMult( vecDiv( Fm, Me ),
dt*dt ));
Vv = vecPlusVec( Vv, vecMult( vecDiv( Fm, Me ), dt );
}
else
ray[ i ].X = vecPlusVec( ray[ i ].X, Vv ); // Move ray to
the right
if( ray[i].X.x > 500.0 ) ray[i].X.x = -100.0; // Arbitrary
endpoint choices
ptC = perspective( matrixMultiply( Transform, matTvec( Rot,
ray[i].X ), View ) );
Ellipse( bkhdc, ptC.x-1, ptC.y+1, ptC.x+1, ptC.y-1 );
}
SelectObject( bkhdc, hpen ); // Restore
standard black pen
}
When this works I will generalize it to animate charged particles in a
toroidal magnetic field.
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Good Evening, March is exiting with a mix of heavy rain and sunshine. There were no leaves last week. Today they are everywhere. Trilliums and daffodils are blooming on the south slopes. Snow is gone from all the nearby peaks. More owls are calling, some during the day. The sun sent us an X class flare yesterday from a new sunspot. It could flare again with better aim. The ionosphere is charged if a little unsettled. Conditions should be adequate on both bands. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun has tossed a CME at us. The ionosphere is active and noisy. It's time to test the bands again to see how they perform. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been a snowy, wet week. Gray too. The sun has a good number of sunspots but they are stable. No CMEs on the way. There is strong flux. I expect some noise but lower QSB than we have had lately. Conditions could be OK to good. Let's find out tomorrow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-chemical-view-of-ecosystems-20250305/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun tossed a mix of fast a slow streams of solar wind at us. That should upset our ionosphere in many ways. I doubt the bands will be as quiet as they were last week. I expect a wide variety of QSB types with a similar mix of noises. Take note of the time "change". Net times are set by my daily schedule, not by conditions. That is why they are always at the same local time (except in parts of the world and US which do not observer Daylight Savings Time). This change also lets me work different areas seasonally. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-chemical-view-of-ecosystems-20250305/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was sunny and warm this week. Warm enough to trigger biting flies to hatch. The forecast is for a return to cold, wet, and snow. If their population is lower it is easier to be outside doing chores. I can dream. There were a few solar flares early in the week. No CMEs are due. Solar flux is down a little too. Maybe conditions will be good. Sunset is later so it won't affect forty meters as much as it has been. That means the time change is due :) Next week in fact ( I just checked ). Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun is covered in sunspots; there are no CMEs on the way. Solar flux is still high so there will be a steady hiss. QSB should be less vigorous. We can test both of these hypotheses tomorrow. The end of February has brought more seasonal weather. The snow has been replaced with rain and fog. Lots of fog. It is hard to tell when it stops raining because the trees drip for hours. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Hash # https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun is sending us a stream of ions. Propagation should be interesting tomorrow. There will be hissing. There will be a variety of QSB types. And there may be some other noises. Last week produced some very odd tones. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-hans-bethe-stumbled-upon-perfect-quantum-theories-20250212/ Still, I made my fossil bed and now I toss and turn. I'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It snowed most of the week. Today the sun came out and the temperature rose. Then it got noisy as the snow fell again; in large clumps. A doe is eating her way across the back acres avoiding the falling snow. The temperature is supposed to drop quite a bit over the next few days. She needs the energy. The sun has been flaring this week. A stream of solar wind is headed our way; expect some hissing. If you are not otherwise occupied you are invited to join the nets. The twenty meter net will be over before 3:30 PM PST. The forty meter net should fit into another null point :) Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-probe-the-limits-of-mathematical-truth-20250203/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, There will be a CME near miss on February 3rd. The sun was almost spotless yesterday. The unbroken streak was saved by a large spot rotating into view. Today there are more spots showing. Those spots are ready for more flare activity. Solar flux is up too; I expect a high level of hissing tomorrow. There was a light dusting of snow this morning. It melted and has not been replaced. The forecast was for four inches. There is some precipitation but it is too warm to snow. Maybe tonight and into next week. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-life-happen-when-theres-barely-any-light-20250129/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, After a sunny week there are more sunny days ahead. Frost each morning followed by a thaw. Ice flowers are blooming from the frost line interface. One doe spent the last few days eating her way around the house. Every few hours she would appear out a different window. The sun tossed a few CMEs our way but somehow they got lost, or missed. The prediction of X class flares was also incorrect. The sun has potential but we may have a quiet(ish) spell. Once I clear out some underbrush I will be able to construct a few antennas. The ones I have up now have lasted for three years; a new record :) Normally they last about a year before the trees and snow and wind and flying branches rip them apart. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - For those of you who have always thought calculus was broken, here is proof: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-monstrous-function-that-broke-calculus-20250123/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a sunny, crisp week. I took advantage of the dry spell to cut up a few downed trees. Using a chainsaw is a full body work out. It focuses the mind too; the swath of rapidly moving teeth keeps your attention. A few more hours of cutting and I'll have made a dent. The solar forecast is for flares; 70% probability. No CMEs are on the way. Solar flux is over 200, there should be a fair amount of hissing going on. Venus and Saturn just found an opening in the trees. I can see them as I type. I hope to hear you tomorrow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - My name is 905 and I've just become alive. I'm the newest populator of the planet called Earth. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, After a windy start to the week there were a few clear days with some rain in between. The sun may be less active tomorrow. There are no highly active sunspots; the forecast is for M class flares at most. Sunset is just before the forty meter net. Conditions will change quickly. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ocean-teems-with-networks-of-interconnected-bacteria-20250106/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Our sun is creating more flares this week. Three X class with many in the M class. A few shortwave blackouts too. The ionosphere should be excited. QSB will be plentiful; lots of hissing too. It will give running the net more texture. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I hope you have your Magic 8 Ball in storage. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-computer-scientists-consult-oracles-20250103/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun settled down after flares early in the week. We may have stable conditions tomorrow for both nets. Forty meters is susceptible to rapid change this time of year. Join us tomorrow to test the air waves. Christmas evening brought high winds with faster gusts. Most of the wind was north of me but that did not stop it from breaking power lines. Two days later power returned. I spent the time with a pen and pad of paper writing code. I now have a spot sampling routine with genetic comparison tools. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air. Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Happy shortest day of the year. Tomorrow is 4 seconds longer :) The sun is more active this week. A large sunspot group is moving into view. It may have been the area tossing CMEs from the far side of the sun. Another CME hit the earth a few days ago. It caused some aurora. The hiss rate will be higher this week. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/ Tweaking the competition between a herbivore's camouflage gene and a carnivore's eye sight gene is similar to biasing a single stage in an amplifier. First move the signal into the active region, then return some of the output back to the input to stabilize things. Clipping throws the ecosystem into large population swings, with the carnivores eventually dying off. A more equitable competition will calm things down. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a pleasant week. Some rain, some fog, some wind, and some sun. No snow, that's for tomorrow. Gray Jays are attentive, it may have something to do with the food I give them. I don't think it's my lectures on trees. The bush, which was covered with flowers earlier this year, is now full of tiny, seed eating birds. The squirrels await the fallout below. The sun looks almost quiet. A lower rate of flux with no really active spots should lessen QSB. It will be dark by the time the 40 meter net begins. Propagation will be changing by the moment. This will be true until mid-January. I could move the net earlier by 30 minutes if necessary. In any case we can test things tomorrow and see how it goes. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-brain-microbiome-could-humans-have-one-too-20241202/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Each morning has had dense fog causing the trees to rain on their roots. Around noon the fog falls below me and the sun comes out. Chilly, humid, and sunny - moss is glowing during its haploid phase. Elk and deer trails are far from the road due to heavy traffic. The sun has a number of active sunspot groups. No CMEs are due but the flux level is elevated. There should be a moderate amount of hiss with medium levels of QSB. So fairly normal compared to the last six months. Sunset is now thirty minutes before the 40 meter net. It will be fun to monitor how propagation changes over the next few months. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/teen-mathematicians-tie-knots-through-a-mind-blowing-fractal-20241126/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a good week. The weather was mostly inclement so rebuilding three computers and my network was a good way to stay busy. Now, after moving terabytes of data, there is some organization to a system which just grew. Surprisingly I am now running the same OS on each workstation/server. Today it was sunny so I took a break from the dust and spent it in the forest. The sun has reawakened from a short nap. There are more sunspots with greater activity. Solar flux is up with a few aurora for northern folks. No CMEs are due, though there was an RF black out yesterday. The ionosphere should still be unstable from that so I expect deeper QSB than last week. However, that will not deter me from trying to find an open frequency and call CQ. I'm sure I'll find a few of you. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Here is a funny command I gave my file system yesterday: sudo chown root:root share This really does make sense :) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun is taking a break. This respite may be short lived due to the unstable sunspot AR3886. The sunspot number dropped to 71, with flux at 147 sfu. I expect less hiss and less QSB. But AR3886, or a large filament of magnetism, could trigger an RF black out. Nonetheless I will try to find open frequencies and call CQ. There was a day of sun this week, it felt odd :) Currently it is windy with heavy rain. No branches are flying so the antennas are safe. Snow level will drop tomorrow. It may or may not snow here. Or streaks of slush will fall. Either I'm losing track of days or it is getting cold earlier than normal. Snow usually waits until December. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Think outside the box: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/one-more-dim __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been sunny and cool the last few days. Now the wet weather is back for the coming week. Frost has turned most of the leaves their respective colors. The bracken fern ranges from green to gold to brown, depending on its exposure. The Gray jays have migrated out of the canopy down to the lower branches. The Steller's jays are finding more peaceful locations elsewhere. A few nearby owls start calling each evening at dusk. The sun has a new string of very active spots. One CME just missed, but its effects are being felt. There were numerous RF black outs this week. X class flares were popping off regularly though only the previously mentioned CME occurred. I expect those active spots are not done yet. There may be an RF black out tomorrow but it cannot affect both nets. Please notice the seasonal time change. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - MEMS GHz filters https://archive.is/s0Szb https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/holograms Holographic EMF theory https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/gabor-lecture.pdf __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, I think there was a little sun this week; it did not last long. Mostly fog and more fog with light to heavy rain. The bracken fern are turning bronze, many leaves are falling. We are in the rainy season. The sun awoke from a short nap. Two or three X class flares from a new sunspot group. Large and active spots are appearing in a chain. Solar flux is up too. A 'mild' CME hit the Earth but more, bigger ones are on the way. Should be noisy tomorrow. More autumn thunderstorms with a steady hiss from the sun. QSB should be up too. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS Reminder: next week some of the US changes their clocks. We will do the same. - If I need to graph a data file I use gnuplot. It is a light, command line tool, which runs from scripts. This is the script I have been using a lot lately: plot 'dt.dat' using 1:4 title 'Carnivore' with line, 'dt.dat' using 1:3 title 'Herbivore' with line, 'dt.dat' using 1:2 title 'Plant' with line But this is fancy. The default settings can work just fine. plot 'dt.dat' using 1:4 is enough. plot reads the dt.dat file and displays whatever is in column 1 as the X coordinate, and column 4 data as the Y coordinate. Stringing commands together, with commas in between, gives me a three value chart. If you don't specify line you get the default icons at each data point. Kind of yucky for what I am doing. The other bit is title 'Carnivore' to label the chart's legend. http://gnuplot.info/ For more information, downloads, descriptions, and demos. I have used it for twenty years if I am not mistaken. It has been well maintained over that time. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, I am getting an early taste of the rainy season. Mushrooms are popping up all over. The vine maple leaves have lost their color so the Chanterelle are easy to spot. Lots of elk movement; more so farther away from the road. A lot of their paths parallel the road, few cross it. This might have something to do with the many trucks filled with hunters slowly scanning the forest. The sun is very active. Only one CME is headed our way, I think it is due tomorrow. There are plenty of ions flying around of one flavor or another. There is also comet dust. I think I will hear all manner of interesting signals. Hopefully one of them will be yours. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://foragerchef.com/chanterelle-mushrooms/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The fir and cedar trees are changing color. Old growth is dying off, shedding needles in the wind. Spiders are getting large, as are their webs. I collect them as I walk through the forest :) The sun sent us plenty of ions this week. Enough to support comms on many bands. Hopefully twenty and forty meters will be good tomorrow. Space weather says we have a period of relative calm following a day long magnetic storm. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - How I decode a few of the genes on three of the chromosomes in my ecosystem: metabolism = (float) ((CL+i)->EN & 127) + 100.0; EN::G5 100.0 - 227.0 absorb = (float) (((CL+i)->EN & (7 << 7)) >> 7) +1.0)/16.0; EN::G4 6.25 - 50.0% satiety = (float) (((PL+i)->EN & (15 << 10)) >> 10) + 5.0; EN::G3 5.0 - 20.0 maturity = (int) (((PL+i)->EN & (7 << 19)) >> 19) + 1; EN::G2 1 - 8 cycles senescence = (int) (((CL+i)->EN & (31 << 22)) >> 22) + 8; EN::G1 8 - 39 cycles poison = (float) (((PL+i)->PL & (63 << 6)) >> 6) / 63; PL::G4 poison probability 0.0 - 1.0 strength = (float) (((PL+i)->PL & (63 << 12)) >> 12) / 63; PL::G3 poison strength withstand = (float) (((HL+i)->HB & (31 << 20)) >> 20) / 31; HB::G3 ability to withstand poison Survivors breed the next generation with the crossover operator, chromosome by chromosome. I am trying to balance the energy flow through the system. Senescence prevents immortal carnivores. Plants and herbivores do not have this problem. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It dropped to 32 F the last few nights. Lots of leaves are changing color. I walked around the property locating game trails. A lot of elk sign with a few shredded trees. In some places the ground is carved from many hooves. It took a while but I found young chanterelle mushrooms. Fallen vine maple leaves are very similar in color. However, once you find the first mushroom others appear; kind of like elk. The sun reawakened. There have been three X class flares so far this week, if I have counted right. Two CMEs on the way - one of them hit today, while the other is due tomorrow. I expect a steady hiss from the enhanced solar wind, and a wide variety of QSB from the ringing ionosphere. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-world-of-electrostatic-ecology-20240930/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun is relatively quiet at the moment. A CME passed by but did not hit us. We should have less QSB and noise tomorrow. Autumn began cool and wet. It has been foggy each morning but sunny in the afternoon. Many shrubs and a few trees are changing color. Bear berries are almost gone. I have only flushed one grouse so someone else is eating them. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/hummingbirds-thrive-on-an-extreme-lifestyle-heres-how/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, First fog, then rain cleared out last week's smoke. Temperatures dropped but it was nice to breath fresh air again. The sun, when you can see it, is no longer a shade of orange; it's yellow again. Speaking of the sun it has a new sunspot group which sent an X4.5 class flare at us earlier today. For the next week we will be in the path of any CMEs from it. The latest projection is for the cycle to peak sometime next year. Currently there is no sign of any slowdown. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/novel-architecture-makes-neural-networks-more-understandable-20240911/ This algorithm could be useful for antenna tuner applications. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19756 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been a hazy, smokey week. The sun is an odd shade of orange which makes a green forest look gray. It is very quiet too; usually squirrels and birds make a little noise, not this week. Some rain is on the way. Hopefully it will cross over the Cascades and douse a few fires in Central Oregon. Solar activity is going up. High sunspot numbers with high solar flux. We are currently between CMEs. The next one is due by Wednesday. Tomorrow there will be a steady hiss of ions with a few types of QSB. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I am not sure which fire is sending smoke down the WIllamette valley then into the Columbia. Here is a map: https://wfca.com/fire-map?lng=-118.4943&lat=45.3203&zoom=6.12 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-higgs-field-actually-gives-mass-to-elementary-particles-20240903/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Summer returned a few days ago. Sunny and hot with temperatures nearing 100 F. If we had cicadas they would be buzzing. The sun is a deeper shade of orange due to haze from distant forest fires. The birds and squirrels are silent during the middle of the day during siesta time. The sun has sent us another storm while producing more complex sunspots. 3806 will dominate the week. It may produce a few RF black outs before it's gone. QSB will be present and varied. Summer storms will add noise too. But, the sun is moving rapidly south; propagation should improve on forty meters. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-hawking-wrong-about-extremal-black-holes-20240821/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Another cloudy, chilly week. Foggy and wet too - it has rained almost every day. The temperature topped out at 46 F today. I miss sunny and warm summers; native Oregonians are in shorts while I wear a jacket. The doe and her fawns are frequent visitors. I saw the ferns shaking and one popped out for a moment. Under better lighting I see the fawns are both lightly speckled. The coat of Black Tailed fawns doesn't have the sharper contrast of a White Tailed fawn. Our sun is relatively quiet for the moment. Plenty of sunspots with a high level of solar flux. But, no CMEs are due for tomorrow. We have a CME gap :) However, QSB should be moderate to high and summer storm QRN prevalent. Cycle 25 has not reached its peak; activity is still growing. Higher bands (17 to 10 m) are open for DX every now and then. Hopefully lower bands will be open tomorrow too. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Water supply for gardening on the moon. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202408/1318512.shtml __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been a hazy week. The sun is still fairly yellow so the smoke is not too thick. Just persistent. A cold front is due to pass through, then the wind will come in off the Pacific. I have seen a lot of immature birds lately. Second crop of Gray Jays. The sun remains active. So active it's hard to get a dit in sideways. The sunspot number is at 382 while the solar flux index is at 306. The main problem is all of the sunspot flares. They are sending us a barrage of CMEs. The stronger flares cause hour long RF black outs. Between those interruptions the higher bands should work well. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, After last week's cold weather the sun and warmth this week feels good. I haven't had to heat the house either. The rain helped the berry crops ripen. Thimble berries, black raspberries, huckleberries, and a few very late strawberries. Salmon berry season has passed. The sun is setting records. Cycle 25 was forecast to be weak; it isn't. The sunspot number is at a 23 year high, it could go even higher. Summer storms will cause some noise but the frequent CMEs keep the ionosphere unsettled. Should be another interesting test tomorrow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a sunny, mild week. Various predators have moderated the insect population. That, along with some breeze, makes it easier to sit outside. Helps when you are under a vehicle or up in a tree working on antennas. I do not miss the fire ants of Houston. If you can't change your oil quickly they find you and make life unpleasant. At least the Black Widows of Albuquerque kept to themselves. The sun is very active. The sunspot number is 212 while solar flux levels have gone to 202. A few small CMEs are due today and tomorrow. There should be many types of noise and a variety of QSB modes. May we live in interesting times :) It will be another test of ears and antennas. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It is indeed summer. High temperatures turned the bright green of spring into mature growth. More hummingbirds arrived. I saw eight of them clustered around the feeder shortly after dawn. By sunrise they had dispersed to the nearby fireweed. The sun is a little less active. No CMEs to speak of but flux is still high. There are a few large sunspot groups which may erupt before they pass over the limb. A stream of solar wind will hit some time tomorrow. Hopefully it won't be too noisy. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening,
On Monday I noticed there were ripe salmon berries. Gray jays tend
them closely but had missed a few days. On Tuesday I saw, and heard, a
gray streak drop to the ground with a thump. On Wednesday the thumping
continued on my roof. Yesterday I saw an immature gray jay eating those
neglected salmon berries. He was learning how to take off from a low,
inverted position. He was successful about half of the time.
The sun is supposed to be quiet for a few days. There are no CMEs
on the way. And, the sunspot groups exposed to us are stable. That
should allow the ionosphere to stabilize. Lower QSB would be nice.
Stronger signals would be OK too.
Please join us on (or near):
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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I needed to find the distance between points on a sphere.
Vectors made the solution simple.
// Distance between points A & B somewhere on a sphere of radius r
float arcLen( float r, struct pt A, struct pt B )
{ // Calculate cosine with the dot product of unit vectors
return r * acos( vecDotVec( normalize( A ), normalize( B ) ) );
}
Helper functions:
// Transform spherical data into a Cartesian vector
struct pt S2C( float rho, float theta, float phi ) // Radius,
elevation, azimuth
{
struct pt VT;
VT.x = rho *cos( theta*RAD *sin( phi*RAD ) );
VT.y = rho *sin( theta*RAD *sin( phi*RAD ) );
VT.z = rho *cos( phi*RAD );
return VT;
}
// Transform spherical vector into a Cartesian vector
struct pt S2C( struct pt VS )
{
struct pt VT;
VT.x = VS.x *cos( VS.y*RAD ) *sin( VS.z*RAD );
VT.y = VS.x *sin( VS.y*RAD ) *sin( VS.z*RAD );
VT.z = VS.x *cos( VS.z*RAD );
return VT;
}
int main( void )
{
float r = 100.0;
struct pt A, B, C;
srand( (unsigned) time( NULL ) ); // Seed random
number generator
// Create two random vectors A & B somewhere on a sphere of
radius r
// Convert vectors from spherical coordinates to Cartesian
A = S2C( vector( r, 180.0 * fRan(), 360.0 * fRan() ) ); //
Radius, elevation, azimuth
B = S2C( vector( r, 180.0 * fRan(), 360.0 * fRan() ) );
C = S2C( vector( r, 180.0 * fRan(), 360.0 * fRan() ) );
printf("A %8.3f %8.3f %8.3f\n", A.x, A.y, A.z );
printf("B %8.3f %8.3f %8.3f\n", B.x, B.y, B.z );
printf("C %8.3f %8.3f %8.3f\n", C.x, C.y, C.z );
printf("Distances between points and in the opposite direction
around the sphere\n");
printf("AB %8.3f %8.3f\n", arcLen( r, A, B ), 2*PI*r - arcLen( r,
A, B ) );
printf("AC %8.3f %8.3f\n", arcLen( r, A, C ), 2*PI*r - arcLen( r,
A, C ) );
printf("BC %8.3f %8.3f\n", arcLen( r, B, C ), 2*PI*r - arcLen( r,
B, C ) );
}
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Good Evening, The sun hit us with another CME yesterday. Solar flux dropped a little, it is around 180 after a few days over 200. If it were less cloudy I would take my telescope out for a look at the many sunspots. Maybe next week. The mostly cloudy week has kept temperatures down. A few scattered showers and a few foggy mornings make the forest wet. Many shades of green, when the sun comes out it glows. All manner of bees are working the berry flowers popping out. Salmon berries are ripening but they're not around long. The jays eat them. Huckleberries are just starting, they are a staple into October. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The new growth on the fir trees is less prominent. A few more weeks and it will look like the rest of the needles. More variety of bird calls. With warmer temperatures habitat improves. Lots more bugs :) The sun is active with three large groups nearing the limb. RF black outs have been short lived this week. The ionosphere is fully charged. If the QSB is not too bad we may get a break. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Moths flock to a light bulb when it is dark. Why don't they come out when it is light? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a cool, sunny week. The ferns are over eight feet tall so they're nearly done growing. During the warmest sunny days I found them a home to many ladybugs. As soon as it cools, or the sun goes behind a cloud they are gone. Red bugs against green ferns are easy to spot, they must not taste very good. The sun keeps tossing protons and electrons at us. There may be some satellite problems because the storm of protons is energetic enough to bypass their shielding. Bit flipping can cause the systems to reset or go into a failure mode requiring remote resets. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I have never been hurt by what I have not said. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been a pleasant week. A number of new birds arrived: a female Black-Headed Grosbeak, a Yellow Warbler, a Gold Crowned Kinglet, and a turkey vulture. Those were only the ones who got my attention. I am sure there are many more since the forest is producing insects and flowers. The sun has not slowed down its activity. A near X-class flare today with others earlier in the week. There are plenty of ions available. Now to find a moment between RF black outs. QSB should be deep and varied in frequency. Late spring thunderstorms will add a layer of static. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was a cool, partly sunny week. Temperatures were warm enough for hummingbirds to actively defend the feeder. New growth, a fresh crop of insects, and drier weather brought many new birds. I expect to see the elk return to take advantage of the grass. The sun is active; three X class flares so far have caused RF black outs. They have been arriving with an approximate 12 hour interval. It looks like we can slip both nets in between them. There will be no shortage of ions to relay signals. There will also be a wealth of QSB. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been a chilly, wet week. The cold weather has affected the hummingbirds. The males don't fight very much, not even a tail display. They just give each other angry glares as they feed. The sun is a little less active. We are between the most active groups which last for multiple passes. One of those is due on Monday if I'm not mistaken. Then we're back to X class flares, RF black outs, with a chance of southerly aurora. So, for a limited time there may be poor to OK propagation. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The sun remains quite active. Solar flux is above 200 and the sunspot number is over 160. However, the large group from last week is no longer facing our way so the CMEs should slow down for a while. Hopefully there will be better propagation tomorrow than that of the last few weeks. The ferns are growing rapidly. The bracken fern were only a foot tall a week ago, now they are six feet and taller. Just today I noticed they are starting to unroll. The forest is very green with new leaves. New growth on the fir trees showed up today too. Those deer will be back soon to prune that growth from the lower branches. The sprouting sword fern are preparing new mats to keep sleeping deer above the wet forest floor. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - If you ever thought your stomach had a mind of its own you are right: https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Propagation ranged from abysmal to poor. QSB was slow and moderate. Noise was quite low which is always a tip off. Weather reports were pleasant. Spring is hinting at summer. On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z: K0DTJ - Brian - CA On 7047.5 kHz at z: K6PJV - Dale - CA K0DTJ - Brian - CA WM5F - Dwight - ID Until next week 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief — resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The ongoing geomagnetic storm has dropped to G1. Tomorrow they are predicting another round at the G5 level. Communications below 30 MHz will probably be impaired. Hopefully the two nets will be unaffected during a lull between CMEs. The snow from last week was replaced by a few days of 80 degrees. The daffodils had an eight week run so they did pretty well. I noticed a tiny hummingbird this morning. It took a few moments, processing a stack of memories. "The same thing happened last year." The Anna's Hummingbirds have returned with the heat. There are plenty of tiny insects for them to eat. Keeps them from eating me. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - In one faculty, at least, there can be no dispute of the gentleman's superiority over me, and most other men; and that is, the faculty of entangling a subject, so that neither himself, or any other man, can find head or tail to it. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It has been a cold, wet, snowy week. My daffodils look fresh due to the chill. They last for weeks during the end of winter. Birds are settling in. A few woodpeckers are making homes. The sun is very active. Multiple CME hits and near misses, with another due tomorrow. A variety of flares blacked out RF too. We may be able to communicate tomorrow, or I could hear a steady roaring sound. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-nasa-probe-solved-a-scorching-solar-mystery-20240429/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Spring is progressing. I finally saw the hummingbird which is emptying the feeder. I also saw a doe with a yearling eating their way across the new undergrowth. Their winter coats make them quite visible. They were back again today. Then the doe found a dry spot under a cedar tree and napped all afternoon. Around 5:30 she shook herself and got back to eating. The sun has been quite active this week. Multiple CMEs were created, some of them hitting the earth, some passing close by. The ionosphere is well fed with ions and rather unstable. Conditions could change quickly because more CMEs are due at any moment. Propagation may prove challenging. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was partly sunny and cool all week. Currently it is windy. My view is much greener. More flowers but no hummingbirds at the feeder. It has stopped snowing so they should show up soon. The daffodils are all open with a few trilliums here and there. The ionosphere is still be shaking after the pounding it took from yesterday's CME. A large sunspot group is sending a lot of ions our way. It is not as strong as it was the last time it showed up. Still mixed field groupings but it has lost some of its vigor. I expect noise and QSB to test our mettle. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - I was reading about stellarator design when I learned the coordinate system of a torus. One axis is called toroidal while the other is called poloidal. Just in case you ever need to describe an exact point on a torus. Then I thought about how it would work in Scrabble: id - oloid - poloid - poloidal A good, additive series. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Spring is mostly here. More flowers, more birds, more pollen, and more bugs. Sun appears more often these days. However, more snow is due on Tuesday. Frosty nights kill off the biting flies, I appreciate being eaten less. The sunspot number is below 100 but the sun is quite active. A few smaller CMEs are bouncing off the magnetosphere causing some aurora, QSB, and hissing. The large, active sunspot group from two weeks ago is coming back. By Monday it should be changing propagation again. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-finally-reveal-their-complex-social-life-20240411/ Which is why Americans only sing in four part harmony to this very day. That proved to be too dangerous. See, what they did was they'd be singing these songs called Clam Chanties, and they'd have these big spears called clampoons. And they'd be walking up and down the beach and the method they eventually devised where they'd have this guy, the most strongest heavy duty true blue American, courageous type dude they could find and they'd have him out there walking up and down the beach by himself with other chicken dudes hiding behind the sand dunes somewhere. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, Some weeks nothing goes right, this was not one of them. Light rain then sun and mild temperatures. More flowers and more birds. Snow is melting above me so streams are full. The ground was dry enough to let me check the forest. I have much less damage than my neighbors. Their trees are quite a bit younger, they snapped where green wood met more mature timber. Clear growth assures trees will survive; any kinks or forks can be fatal to them. The sunspot number is low and the flux rate is lower too. However, the sun has been quite active this week. There is still a possible earth effective flare from 3615. I expect a more quiet band than we have had lately. Less roaring. There may even be less QSB. But there should be no whistling from clouds of protons, or hissing from high speed electrons. Just normal random noises with (hopefully) more ordered Morse code. If the gaps in the noise are rhythmic enough you are easy copy :) Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - Imagine sunrise on a toroidal planet. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The last bit of snow melted yesterday. Winter may be done, spring can take over. A few daffodils are turning yellow. They should open this week. Many birds have returned, some of them have started to nest. I saw a Steller's Jay collecting moss from a nearby limb. There are two CMEs aimed at earth. One of them will hit tomorrow, the other the following day. One sunspot group is spawning more spots with mixed magnetic fields. A persistent X class flare lifted one of those coronal ejections. The bands should be noisy with many types of QSB. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - https://spaceweather.com/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, It was sunny and warm today. Most of the snow has melted so I went for a walk to check the damage to the forest. A few dozen broken trees ranging from ten inches in diameter to twenty. Their trunks exploded into many shards around thirty feet up. Only the Doug fir shattered; cedar and hemlock trees are unharmed. Some birds returned and daffodils are growing though the remaining snow. The sun looks almost bare but the flux is still high. A rain of protons is absorbing RF around the poles. There was a strong flare from a sunspot not yet facing Earth. Propagation should be OK tomorrow, with plenty of QSB and a steady hiss from the ion flow. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, was the precursor to NASA. During the 1920s they codified airfoils with four digit numbers. I wrote some code to give me the coordinates of an airfoil surface from their equations. I created a dozen airfoil profiles to place into my wind tunnel code. Screen shots of the results are here: http://bacona.design/tunnel.html And now for something completely different: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ocean-bacteria-reveal-an-unexpected-multicellular-form-20221102/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
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Good Evening, The snow is no longer in the trees. It has all fallen after pruning the forest. A few small trees are down, a few large tops, lots of branches, thousands of cones, and millions of fir needles. A good supply of lichen is on the snow attracting the deer. Squirrels are busy processing the cones. The sun is active with a new crop of sunspots. The sunspot number is below 100 but some of them have mixed magnetic fields. Those are always interesting. A few glancing CMEs during the week and another due quite soon. I expect a variety of types of QSB. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - It is a cold winter, Away is the songbird. And gone is her traveler, She waits at home. The sun is on holiday, No leaves on the trees. The animals sleep While cold North wind blows. The snowflakes are falling, The roof a white blanket. There's ice on the window pane, She waits alone. She sits by the fireside, The room is so warm. Her children are sleeping, She waits in their home. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
