Good Evening,
It has been a mostly sunny and cool week. The forecast of 90 degree weather
has been cancelled. Thank you! Looks like a much more pleasant 70 degree
range for this weekend. The ferns are coming along nicely. There are at least
three types and they have gone into their diploid phase. Over the winter and
after the snow melts they are in haploid phase but I am not a good enough
naturalist to know one species from another when they are in that phase. I
just observe.
Propagation on twenty and eighty meters has been OK. The normal amount of
QRN and QSB but both of them were capable of sustaining a contact. I am
gradually learning more about N1MM. It is a large application and will take
more practice time than I have now to master it. Reminds me of some schematic
capture applications I have which get used so sporadically that I am constantly
relearning them. Most of my CAD apps are intuitive enough so I can go six
months or a year without using them and jump right back in without a problem.
I expect N1MM will get to be that way too after I work through this year's
Field Day. The schematic capture apps may take a little longer ;)
Flowering dogwood started blooming at this elevation early this week and
just a few minutes ago I saw my first False Solomon's Seal just off the edge of
the property. Foxglove have popped out of the ground and there are a number of
short flowers blooming amidst the fir trees. The fir are popping their buds
and sprouting new growth. I should see deer soon because they really enjoy
that soft new growth. The trees grow more than they need to provide for the
deer. The grouse are still drumming away but their accent is not the same as
those of Wisconsin. They seem more relaxed here. In Wisconsin you were never
sure if it was a John Deere tractor starting up or a grouse until the beat got
too fast for it to be a tractor ;)
Please join us tomorrow evening.
1) Hail signs (first letter or two of the suffix of your call)
2) NCS help (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help)
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0100z (Sunday 6 PM PDT) 7045 kHz
Stay healthy,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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