Good Evening,
Last week I was on the road but two folks ran the net: K6DGW and N0SS. I am still working on a report but this note will be posted first. I was on the road because I was coming home from Pacificon where I got to hold a K3. I also had a 30 minute demo of features I had not noticed while reading the manual. Wayne told me more about the radio than I would ever use in my lifetime. My interaction with a radio is fairly simple: a few buttons, a few knobs, and that is it. I used many of the features of the K2 just to say I used them but found, during normal usage, much of the detailed UI is not part of my world. Maybe I need to expand a little bit :)
The weather was quite nice here this week. Sun and 55 degrees or so. Today I got to work outside so I called the county and found I could burn. Now my back yard has far less clutter in it than it did this morning. Just before dusk, as I was getting the fire pushed in so I could make dinner, I heard some noises above me on the hill side. After the wind storm last year that area is very hard to get through for anyone larger than a squirrel. I did not get a glimpse of it but think there may have been a deer spying on me about ten feet away. The fire was quite obvious through smell, sound, and light. I think she was just curious.
I was able to get on 20 meters twice this week and the signals were quite good. Yesterday we got hit by the solar wind and there were aurora which fought their way through the very bright full moon. Hopefully that wind fed the ionosphere enough so we can make good contacts tomorrow evening. That moon interfered with my view of the comet in Perseus. I could not find a place where I could see the constellation and put the moon behind something so I was unable to find the comet. Tonight there is enough haze to let the moonshine effect the entire sky so I'll not see it tonight either. However, it is high in the sky in a circumpolar site so I may get a shot at it another night. If I catch it I'll drag out the telescope to get a better look.
Please join us tomorrow evening.
Tomorrow:
1) Hail signs (first letter or two of the suffix of your call)
2) NCS help (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help)
Please join us:
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7 PM PDT) 7045 kHz
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
ecn.visionseer.com
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