Good Evening,
I have never seen a single elk. They always appear in groups.
First three or four, and then more pop out of the background. Unless
they move it's hard to tell they are standing fifty feet away. This
week the wind was very light but coming toward me. I saw a few out of
place bushes and stopped moving. The group resolved into ten elk.
Finding the bull took about five minutes. He was way off to my right
eating something green. The cows were spread over a hundred yards or so
also eating something green. Today I found a well defined path in the
NE corner of my property. Once they re-establish their trails it is
easier to find my way around. The slash from the thinning is making
soil. Much of it was broken, dead branches. One wet winter and they are
crumbling.
I expect QSB will be deep and varied tomorrow. The solar wind has
been hitting it this week. That means a noise like winter wind full of
snow. But we have past the bottom of the cycle. I think. It has been
a week since the last meager spot. I recycled a broken power supply
this week. Traced the circuit, tested voltages, and found the bug.
Quite literally. There was a scorched caterpillar under the leads to
the voltage regulator. When the supply died there was an odd sound to
it. I just pulled another PS from another project to run my
transceiver. The "debugged" supply is now feeding another transceiver.
I use it to listen to AM radio stations after dark when they cut power.
Switch the mode to lower sideband and it works fine. Fading is much
less and fidelity is higher compared to the AM mode at night.
Please join us on (or near):
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7047 kHz at 0045z Monday (5:45 PM PDT Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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