Good Evening,
The band was quite happy today! So much so that I was having problems
discerning separate signals ;) More than once I had to call again to attempt
to get one character out of the howl. Stations checked in from Connecticut to
Southern California and from Georgia to Oregon. Only a couple had QSB so then
they too jumped up to at least S5. It was very nice after some of the problems
we have been having with propagation lately. I took a flakey tuner out of the
antenna path which made some improvement and did a little work on the higher of
my two antennas. A good spring day will be required to do all the work
necessary to unwrap the lower antenna from its trapped location amoungst the
branches. A couple raising and lowering operations with some pulling in
between will get it free but that means I will be up and down the ladder a lot.
From the reports I heard winter is back; in force for some and in a pleasant
way for others. The California stations spoke of rain. I know my southern
neighbors would like to fill their reservoirs and water their lawns before
summer returns. I would gladly send the clouds down there to get some sun now
and then. There are times during the winter months when the sun is only a fond
memory. Waysides east of Hood River, Oregon are filled with RVs of folks
trying to find a day or two of sun in their vacation from between the Cascades
and the Coast Range. However spring is only a month or so away if you follow
the calendar of the hummingbirds. They start flitting in during the late part
of February. Since there are not many flowers then they must survive on the
tiny insects which hatch around that time.
On to the list =>
On 14050 kHz at 2300z:
NO8V - John - MI - K3 - 820 QNI #55!!!
K6DGW - Fred - CA - K3 - 642 * QNI #115 *
K9ZTV - Kent - MO - K3 - 21
W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457
AB9V - Mike - IN - K3 - 398
W0JFR - John - CO - K3 - 994
W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767
K4JPN - Steve - GA - K2 - 1422
W6ZH - Pete - CA - K1 - 553
K1THP - Dave - CT - K3 - 686
NS7P - Phil - OR - K3 - 1826
W0NTA - Dick - CO - K2 - 4141
WS7L - Carl - OR - K3 - 486
Hopefully next week will have similar or even better conditions. The sun is
definitely on its way back. During my morning sked I track when the sun pops
up over the mountain on the clear or hazy days. There is one anomaly when it
rises in a notch in the mountain but that is only for a day or two and then it
is back to its normal progression until it clears the mountain entirely from
daybreak until sunset. Soon we will read if the ground hog in Wisconsin
foresees an early or a later spring for those in the Midwest. It is time to
get in the last month or two of iceboating and ice fishing before the breakup.
And then, in a matter of a day or two, the lakes will be clear and the
sailboats will appear. At the ARES meeting last week I had a discussion with
another operator about the fall colors so I am feeling a little homesick.
Maybe one day I will move back home.
Until next week I hope you stay warm and stay well,
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS (Net Control Operator 5th Class)
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