Just a warning that we finally made it back to the South Prairie
portion known as Stillwater, OK. When we left Orcas Island,
Washington a week ago minus about three hours, we thought that we
might actually make the shortest run to Oklahoma down thru Salt Lake
and Cheyenne. Our first overnight in Portland allowed us to look at
single digit lows in southern Wyoming and turned us to our official
"Winter Route" which basically is, "Down I-5, straight south to
Bakersfield and turn left" which takes us through central Arizona and
in through Amarillo to northcentral Oklahoma.
When we got to Needles on the CA/AZ border, we heard of a nasty snow
storm in Eastern NM, running as far south as Houston, so we diverted
even further South, having a nice reunion with Linda's ASU nursing
school classmates in Phoenix and then on thru Tucson, El Paso,
Midland-Odessa and Ft. Worth to see the grandchildren.... then a
carefully-timed run straight north to Oklahoma. A 3.5 day 2,100 mile
trip turned into a 7-day 3,000 mile trip, but we are back in
Stillwater, never once driving on icy roads... and having seen some
good friends and family.
Of course, here in Oklahoma, we got to freezing temperatures (for
highs) and tomorrow night we'll see single digits. Thursday and
Friday should warm into the 40s and I'll put up parts of the
Wellbrook array then.... and morf into a serious ultralight domestic
MW DXer once again.
While on this highway odyssey, I worked on three MW articles that
will soon see the light of day:
"Using the NRC Pattern Book as a Serious DX Tool"
"Adding an Integral Outside Antenna Port to the PL-310 and the PL-380"
"Having Fun with Universal's Portable Radio Stands"
So, we are back in Oklahoma (Monday at noon) and getting READY TO RADIO!
John Bryant
Stillwater, OK
WinRadio G313e + Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array
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