Greetings Bill,

Conditions were peculiar during our ANZO net with the European signals rapidly coming and going 

06:55z  G4YZE, Bill, quickly increasing to 59/59, only to disappear again

07:07z  VK4ZD, Bill. Initially 57. Got 58. Good copy here until the end, but few others were able to hear Bill and vice versa.

07:10z  G4HMG, John, increasing from 11 to 59/59, but disappearing again. John arrived back from continent on Saturday

07:16z  SM4CSF, Nils. 56/56, but only after I had swung the beam up north and away from VK & ZL.

07:16z  G3LUW, Brian. 56 here. Fairly steady signal during the rest of the net.

07:28z  OH6SM, Martti. Variable, up to 59/59. Also heard by Bill, VK4ZD

07:35z  CT/AD6XX, Laszlo. 11 for a start, increasing to 57 here. Laszlo confirmed that he will be attending the convention in CPH.

07:55z  Net came to an end, Brian closing the gates.

73     Klaus, HB9CQS

Hello Bill,
 

Again today I tried vainly to joint the International net at 11:30 Z but to no avail. Although I heard
your station dimly once or twice and called several times in the first half hour there was no response
from anybody. Of course, the K index was 5 and I shouldn't have expected any results. The propagation
has been as bad as I've ever experienced.
 

Margaret and I were in Spain most of the month of March so of course were out of touch. Since returning
home I've attempted to join the net nearly every Sunday without any luck. Guess I'll just have to keep
trying and hoping!
 

Our weather has been fine for the past three-four weeks with temperatures up to 25 degs. Last weekend
we drove to our cottage near Ottawa (a 300 mile drive) to clean up the gardens, sweep the lawns, check 
the bass to see if they were spawning, etc. We will return to the cottage the first week of June and spend
the summer there with occasional trips home to see if the house is still standing!
 

My rig at the cottage is an old Icom that I bought second hand in 1987 but it still puts out 100 watts. The
antenna is a G5RV strung between two pine trees, about 30 feet above the ground. With no amplifier I doubt
if my signal will cross the "pond", particularly with the present lack of cooperation from the sun.
 

As a matter of fact, I'll be somewhat busier than usual at the cottage this summer as my Surgical Society is
having it's 53rd. annual reunion in Ottawa this September. Margaret and I will be busy helping to organize
that occasion.
 

Earlier this Spring  I retired from Rotary International after 50 years as a Rotarian - now I'm an "Honourary"
Rotarian. However, I've joined our local Probus Club and am enjoying the fellowship there. As a matter of fact,
our Rotary club started and sponsored the Cambridge (Galt) Probus Club in 1987 - the first Probus club in
North America.
 

Hopefully the sunspots will start to reappear in sufficient numbers soon and my contact with the 11:30 net will return.
 

'Til then, 73

Bert

 

From Coos VE2GTI : -

 

I have received notification from Joe Simonet (W0TBC) that George Adam WB1GAQ died on 18th April.

Joe asks that George's details are deleted from the directory.
 

Obituary includes the following : -

George F. Adam III, 82, --- died Tuesday April 18 2006 at Roxbury VA hospital after a brief illness.

Mr. Adam had served in the Army Air Corps 314 bomb wing, 29th Bomb Group during WW II.

He was an active member of Rotary International, a Paul Harris Fellow and recipient of Rotarian of the Year.---