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wayne burdick

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We're our way up I-5 to Corvallis. There's *no* traffic, suggesting that all the gloomy predictions dissuaded some potential travelers.

Corvallis webcams showed bright sunshine at 8 this morning. Looking good so far.

20 m was quite active in all band segments yesterday. Most of my QSOs were on SSB running 10 W to the 4' whip. The KX2's auto-notch and filtering helped a lot with QRM.

Signing /7 got me more attention than /QRP....

Wayne
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k6mkf

Re: [Elecraft_K3] Eclipse update

Sitting here in Corvallis now. Stopped by Eugene for a while and traffic not an issue on I-5 or anywhere we went.

-- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!"

> On Aug 19, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Wayne Burdick [hidden email] [Elecraft_K3] <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> We're our way up I-5 to Corvallis. There's *no* traffic, suggesting that all the gloomy predictions dissuaded some potential travelers.
>
> Corvallis webcams showed bright sunshine at 8 this morning. Looking good so far.
>
> 20 m was quite active in all band segments yesterday. Most of my QSOs were on SSB running 10 W to the 4' whip. The KX2's auto-notch and filtering helped a lot with QRM.
>
> Signing /7 got me more attention than /QRP....
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Logan Zintsmaster

Re: Eclipse update

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We traveled to South Carolina to add in some family time. Drove from Beaufort to Columbia to Anderson (near Clemson). Some traffic around Columbia otherwise smooth sailing. Since you West Coast folks will see it over an hour before us, I'm looking forward to some early first hand reports.

Logan, KZ6O

> On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> We're our way up I-5 to Corvallis. There's *no* traffic, suggesting that all the gloomy predictions dissuaded some potential travelers.
>
> Corvallis webcams showed bright sunshine at 8 this morning. Looking good so far.
>
> 20 m was quite active in all band segments yesterday. Most of my QSOs were on SSB running 10 W to the 4' whip. The KX2's auto-notch and filtering helped a lot with QRM.
>
> Signing /7 got me more attention than /QRP....
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
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k6dgw

Re: Eclipse update

First hand very very early report: Bright sun, very round.
Semicircular black disk begins to cover the sun, more and more,
eventually just a teeny tiny speck of the limb remains and is very
bright, then night. Then the video tape runs backwards and it's day
again. If clouds, it just gets dark, then day-ish again. Given the
physics, they're all exactly alike, and will be for perhaps 600 million
years when the last one will occur. Like snowflakes ... seen one you've
seen 'em all, notwithstanding the urban legend that every one is different.

We'd still have driven to Oregon if it would have worked out. [:-)

On 8/19/2017 2:06 PM, Logan Zintsmaster wrote:

> We traveled to South Carolina to add in some family time. Drove from Beaufort to Columbia to Anderson (near Clemson). Some traffic around Columbia otherwise smooth sailing. Since you West Coast folks will see it over an hour before us, I'm looking forward to some early first hand reports.
>
> Logan, KZ6O
>
>> On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> We're our way up I-5 to Corvallis. There's *no* traffic, suggesting that all the gloomy predictions dissuaded some potential travelers.
>>
>> Corvallis webcams showed bright sunshine at 8 this morning. Looking good so far.
>>
>> 20 m was quite active in all band segments yesterday. Most of my QSOs were on SSB running 10 W to the 4' whip. The KX2's auto-notch and filtering helped a lot with QRM.
>>
>> Signing /7 got me more attention than /QRP....
>>
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>>
>>
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kevinr@coho.net

Re: Eclipse update

Make sure to have your old pots and pans ready. If the eclipse is
lasting too long you can scare the dragon into spitting out the sun by
banging on them loudly. Belt & suspenders for the ECOM folks.

73,

Kevin. KD5ONS

On 8/19/2017 7:35 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> First hand very very early report: Bright sun, very round.
> Semicircular black disk begins to cover the sun, more and more,
> eventually just a teeny tiny speck of the limb remains and is very
> bright, then night. Then the video tape runs backwards and it's day
> again. If clouds, it just gets dark, then day-ish again. Given the
> physics, they're all exactly alike, and will be for perhaps 600
> million years when the last one will occur. Like snowflakes ... seen
> one you've seen 'em all, notwithstanding the urban legend that every
> one is different.
>
> We'd still have driven to Oregon if it would have worked out. [:-)
>
>
> On 8/19/2017 2:06 PM, Logan Zintsmaster wrote:
>> We traveled to South Carolina to add in some family time. Drove from
>> Beaufort to Columbia to Anderson (near Clemson). Some traffic around
>> Columbia otherwise smooth sailing. Since you West Coast folks will
>> see it over an hour before us, I'm looking forward to some early
>> first hand reports.
>>
>> Logan, KZ6O
>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> We're our way up I-5 to Corvallis. There's *no* traffic, suggesting
>>> that all the gloomy predictions dissuaded some potential travelers.
>>>
>>> Corvallis webcams showed bright sunshine at 8 this morning. Looking
>>> good so far.
>>>
>>> 20 m was quite active in all band segments yesterday. Most of my
>>> QSOs were on SSB running 10 W to the 4' whip. The KX2's auto-notch
>>> and filtering helped a lot with QRM.
>>>
>>> Signing /7 got me more attention than /QRP....
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>> N6KR
>>>
>>>
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