I had my worst TP morning of this trip.... mainly because I packed my
radios yesterday. Today is final packing and then tomorrow we head
down I-5 to Bakersfield/Barstow and hang a left. We are going to try
to break the trip up some this year, with a day here and half a day
there, so it will likely be about a week before we make it to the
South Prairie in Oklahoma.
Thanks very much from all of the help from the other members of the
NW Gang. One of the real pleasures of DXing out here is having such
close friends to enjoy this insanity along side. My only regret is
that I got to see so few of you in person. I totally missed the
Victoria guys this year and saw far less than half of the Seatac
crowd. Still, we've been doing this together long enough that is a
good visit, if only by e-mail. It was exactly twenty years ago this
February that Guy and I made that fabled first tip to the Grayland
motel. We heard almost every Pacific Island nation, including Tuvalu
and were hooked on TPs on MW. In March of 1990, there was a massive
DXpedition at the Grayland Beach State Park with Dave Clark from
Toronto and more than half of the NW group that is still making trips
down there.
I got a real laugh a couple of months ago when several of us were
discussing a lovely campground west of Port Angeles on the Washington
side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It looks like a perfect place for
fall DXpeditions for Asia. Nick Hall-Patch pointed out that the worst
thing about this place was that one had to CAMP OUT. He allowed as
maybe the soft beds, flush toilets and complete kitchens in the
Grayland Motel units had spoiled him for the vagaries of CAMPING
OUT. Why I remember full well the DXpeditions in the 80s and first
half of the 90s when Nick drove his little pickup truck to various DX
sites and DXed mosta the night from the cab and then slept half the
day in the seated position.... all in the cab of that little truck. I
also remember going potty in the deep brush while keeping watch (both
ways) for the local mama bear and her cub.
Time marches on, eh????
It's been a fabulous Fall Season... I hope that each of my
co-conspirators enjoyed it at least half as much as I did!
John B.
WinRadio 313e + Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Arrays, SW and NW
Grayland, WA, USA
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