Good Evening,
Each day the rain melts the snow. Each night the snow returns.
This has continued for about two weeks. Last night the cycling ate my
doublet. It must have broken early because when I saw it this morning
the hanging wire was coated with an inch of snow. The snow loads the
fir tree's branches, which causes them to droop, sometimes from
horizontal to a few degrees from the axis of the tree. 14 gauge THHN is
pretty sturdy, it can last for a few winters. Now it will become radial
stock. This antenna must be around five years old, some kind of record :)
Signals were good to great on both bands. Twenty meters was very
quiet. Then I received my first response and turned down the gain.
Some slow QSB on folks east of the Mississippi. The QSB on Roy's signal
from Iowa was strange. It sounded like chirp but that affects each
element of each character. This "chirped" parts of words. The QSB was
not chopping up the characters, it was slower than that rate. But it
modulated the tone of characters over the span of a word. Very odd.
The sun is definitely giving our ionosphere a deep massage.
I would like the present propagation conditions to continue :)
On 14050.5 kHz at 2300z:
NO8V - John - MI
W0CZ - Ken - ND
NS4V - David - NC
K4JPN - Steve - GA
K0DTJ - Brian - CA
K6XK - Roy - IA
KL7CW - Rick - AK
W8OV - Dave - TX
On 7047.5 kHz at 0018z:
W0CZ - Ken - ND
KG7V - Marv - WA
K0DTJ - Brian - CA
WM5F - Dwight - ID
K6PJV - Dale - CA
KL7CW - Rick - AK
K7TXA - Jim - ID
Until next week 73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
-
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts“
Will Rogers
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
