It takes perseverance and luck to view a total solar on land. Murphy rules the weather on those days. My wife and I have been extremely lucky to have been on four successful eclipse viewing sea cruises. The extra mobility of a ship helps. For this August, we've booked with an alumni travel group that has accommodations in Idaho. (Sorry, Wayne, they booked full long ago.)
There are lots of campgrounds, too, but inside the zone they may well be booked full already. It may be practical to stay far away from totality where reservations are still available and drive into the zone on the day of the event. If you've never viewed a total solar, make every effort to get there. The experience of totality is sublime! Very exciting. I don't know exactly where we'll be viewing this one. During the brief period of totality, I'll be preoccupied with photography. During partiality, however, I hope to exercise my new, not-yet-delivered KX2 (ordered at IDXC Visalia). It would be fun to make a two-way KX2 QSO inside the zone, eclipse-chaser to eclipse-chaser! GL & 73, /Rick N6XI On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:39 PM, David Anderson via Elecraft < elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: > Wayne > > I went from Scotland down to Cornwall for the total eclipse of the sun in > 1999, the only chance in my lifetime to see a total eclipse in the U.K., we > were fortunate in not having to pay to stay in a hotel, as we travelled > down by overnight train from Scotland on a special old train run by the > steam preservation society, arriving at Penzance just before dawn, seeing > the sun rising before it went behind a band of cloud. > > Unfortunately the weather did not oblige and the sun was totally eclipsed > by that cloud as well as the moon. :-( However it was still an impressive > sight, getting dark in the middle of the day, with an eerie silence and a > chill in the air, the birds went quiet and then started to make a noise > again as totality passed and the light started to rush across the sea to > us. It was also spectacular to see 100's of flashes from cameras going off > all along the headland, presumably people who didn't know how to work their > cameras properly. > > Once the total eclipse phase was over and we had packed up our camera and > telescope tripods, the clouds parted so we could see a partially eclipsed > sun. Oh well, maybe in another lifetime! > > One of my fellow workmates who was on that trip was determined to see a > total eclipse and has been all over the world to try to catch one, I think > it took him about 4 trips before he was lucky enough. > > Wayne, wishing you clear skies for your eclipse. > > > 73 from David GM4JJJ > > > On 7 May 2017, at 17:00, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > My wife, son and I are planning to drive to Oregon or Idaho to view the > solar eclipse on August 21st. Hotels in the rarified Zone of Totality are > either sold out or price-gouging. We booked one 50 miles outside the path, > just in case, but we'd love to find an AirBnB room or other option closer > in, if possible. > > > > Anyone have a hot tip for us? > > > > Tnx > > Wayne > > N6KR > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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 gm4...@yahoo.co.uk > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 rta...@gmail.com > -- Rick Tavan Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ 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
