Kevin. Oh for your temperatures. We here in North Carolina have been having a battle with the record for the most days over 90 deg/F. Right now, we are 10 days ahead of the record in 2007. Global warming speculation anyone??
73, Don W3FPR On 9/4/2010 11:08 PM, Kevin Rock wrote: > Good Evening, > Another chilly week. This has been the shortest and coldest "summer" > since I have lived in Oregon. Folks here are talking about summer coats and > gloves. They are not kidding! I have only had a couple t-shirt days and > those are spaced out on those rare days when the temperature got over 70 > degrees. However, there is a silver lining to that grey cloud: the fire > danger has been very low. Just means we have to wait for next year to feel > warm. "Summer" started late, is finishing early and was interspersed with > many cold snaps so we had maybe three weeks of warm weather total. Even the > leaves are changing and the critters are making plans for winter. > I have not been on the air much this week but when I was on 80 meters > copy was very good. Unfortunately all of that was local. No great shakes > for DX contacts but it was fun to call CQ and see who was out there. Casual > chats which were tailended by other curiosity seekers was a nice way to spend > a few hours on the radio. No points to worry about, no pile ups to fight, > just work a few people and find out what they are thinking. Once I make > contact I rarely talk about radio since it is obvious that I have one. It is > more fun to talk about the garden or the outdoors or just whatever comes up. > No pressure to perform just a simple chat. And, since they are locals, we > can talk about how cold it is without someone thinking we are a bit whacko :) > ______________________________________________________________ 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
