Good Evening,
I hope your day went well. Here we are experiencing more heat than
usual. Even up here on the mountain it is quite warm. Luckily we had
overcast for much of the day so temperatures were moderated. The house
stayed much cooler than it was outside. The lack of insolation on the
south side helped that a great deal. It only rose to 83 and has since
fallen to 82 degrees inside. I've got a room air conditioner so one room
is very nice. The rest of the house is cooled by fans.
Due to the heat our picnic in Hillsboro has been postponed until
September. I'll be starting the nets from my normal location so I'll not
have any more difficulties than normal. I'll plan on a decent antenna for
the picnic and survey what sort of trees I'll have to use for mounting
it. I expect an inverted V would do nicely and not take too much time to
hoist. I'll make the legs a bit long for 80 meters and use my tuner to
get the doublet matched to my rig. That should work to counter act my
lowland location. I'll also have a much higher noise floor too. Living
in the boonies does have its advantages ;)
The sun looks rather bare this week but I read a few notes about
working a KX1 op in Colorado. One of the contacts was to the Northeast on
30 meters. Hopefully this bodes well for our two nets tomorrow. We shall
see.
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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