It sounds like she could be a future CW Ops member! And the deal with
the neighbors isn't bad either. Hi Hi.
Jack - N2JT
CW Ops #640
On 2/21/2013 11:27 AM, Jim Sheldon wrote:
Been a couple years without much winter snow (or summer rain for that matter). The old
adage "When it rains, it pours!" certainly fit this one. It started about 8:00
yesterday morning and dumped around 5 inches in the first round, another inch in the
second and then overnight it dumped another 6 inches of snow. I think there was some
rain in the second round as well so not absolutely sure the total. The rainfall
equivalent was just about 1.4 inches.
How does this relate to ham radio? I have a heart pacemaker so not allowed to
shovel all that snow and my wife went out last night to start on it. Our
neighbors came over and shoveled the walk for us. Driveway cleared about 7
p.m. and after a nice bit of thanks and conversation, everyone went in. Still
not related to ham radio? This morning we woke up about 4:30 to the sound of
thunder! Yes, thundersnow! When we finally got up around 7:30, you couldn't
tell the driveway had even been cleared last night.
Now, comes the good part - wifey went out again and started to clear the
driveway again. This time, another set of neighbors, two houses down that had
just moved in a month or so ago were out doing their own driveway. They made a
deal with my wife that if she would watch their two year old daughter for a
while, they'd shovel our drive too. She agreed and I was on 40 CW when they
brought the little girl over. She was fascinated listening to the CW and spent
the whole time here in the shack with me intently listening to the CW activity.
She didn't even want to watch cartoons on TV. Her dad said that was the first
time she ever settled down immediately at someone else's house and wasn't fussy
at all. Especially this early in the morning. Might have started a new ham
career, who knows?
Anyway, this might be the first case of a K3 babysitting a two year old and
coming out unscathed - she never tried to grab the radio knobs, key or
anything, just sat there and smiled the whole time. My only regret is that I
didn't have my wife take pictures of the whole episode. Might have to get the
neighbors to bring her over again and see what happens.
Jim - W0EB
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