Good Evening,
It has come upon us once again: Daylight Savings Time. Thanks to
Benjamin Franklin we get to change our clocks to give us more working
light. I am unsure why we still do this since we have electric lights but
it somehow persists. The factories constructed in the late 19th and early
20th centuries had skylights and many large vertical windows to allow more
natural light to shine within. The remaining structures from this period
have had those large windows mostly or entirely bricked closed since we
use artificial lighting within our modern day sweatshops. Next year we
will have two more months of savings due to new rules. However, you folks
in parts of Indiana, Hawaii, and Arizona don't need to worry about this
since daylight savings does not occur in those places.
After that long digression I will announce our new (?) times. I had
been planning on moving the time back to where they were before due to the
increase in daylight hours. This gives me the perfect reason to do so.
I'll leave the net times at their UTC or Zulu times so you that have
clocks set in this manner will not need to change anything. I will have
to remember to change my internal clock. After Ms. Pat took leave of this
world I have been very busy. 24 hours never seems like enough time to get
all of our chores done. Moving the nets back to their old times will give
me an extra hour on Sunday afternoon to clean, cook, wash, cut and split
wood, and so on. Hopefully the propagation will keep improving but these
step functions in time do play havoc with both folks' schedules and with
our relationship with the ionosphere.
The weather has been bouncing back and forth between downpour and very
sunny today. I got some chores done early this morning but wood was not
one of them; it rained far too much. Hopefully tomorrow morning will let
me get a week's worth of wood split and carried into the house. Luckily
it is warming up so I don't burn as much. In a month or two I may only
have to have a fire a week to keep the chill off. We have had a few years
where we went a month without a fire during the summer but that is not
always true. The daffodils are starting to bloom at 1000 feet so I expect
they will start blooming here in a week or two. Each one I see reminds me
of her so I have a lot of memories these days ;)
Please join us:
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4pm PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7pm PDT) 7045 kHz
Until tomorrow,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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