Good Evening,
Once again Oregon weather has given us every possible condition. Full
sun with warm days. Rain in torrential amounts. Now snow, freezing rain,
sleet, and pellet snow. Makes life interesting. Good thing they warn us
so we can prepare. I am cozy in the cabin with things to do and plenty of
nice dry wood to keep me warm. An interesting occurrence came my way
yesterday on the way back up the mountain from a trip for supplies. I was
driving up through the lower switch backs when I found the road completely
blocked from one ditch to the other. I skidded to a halt and waved as the
forty elk slowly crossed the road. They gave me curious looks but were
fairly polite. Only a few got skittish at my rapid appearance. They are
very big when you are only ten feet away from them. Once they all got to
the grass they were interested in I drove home. It was nice to see them.
Propagation on twenty meters has been good this week. Forty meters has
improved for the evening hours so maybe it will be good for tomorrow night
too. Now that the weather is cooler I don't get back to the radio shack
as often. I have moved most of the computer processing power to the front
of the house near the fire. Today I got the network architecture rerouted
so I am once again connected to my printer without resorting to sneaker
net. Windows 7 (64 bit) is giving me some problems but I'll get around
that by using Virtual Box and SuSE to fix the glitch. As long as the box
thinks it is not Windows 7 all the apps run fine. Sun's Virtual Box
allows me to run many different operating systems from one location.
Loading up a new one only takes a few seconds. Linux is easier to use for
most things I had been using CygWin to provide. I use a lot of different
compilers and assemblers
Please join us tomorrow afternoon and 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 3 PM PST) 14050 kHz
Monday 0100z (Sunday 5 PM PST) 7045 kHz
Stay well,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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