Good Evening,
My field day was relaxed and fun. No huge numbers just a few hours
on the air mostly listening. Finding the very loud signals who weren't
answering the majority of the folks trying to contact them. I concluded
they were running very high power with extremely poor antennas. They
were generating pileups around their signal but only worked one every
ten minutes or so. So I moved off the edge of the pileup and worked the
stations trying to contact the power house. This strategy was effective
and I was able to hand out OR to quite a few stations.
During my many breaks I went outside and enjoyed the forest. The
biting flies had died off a few days before so I was able to enjoy a
hike without getting eaten. I followed a road which bisects my property
checking for dead standing trees closest to it. A little trimming will
let me get my F250 as close as possible to my heat source. Mostly I was
looking overhead while traversing the broken terrain. But I did look
down now and then to check my footing. I glanced down and saw spotted
fur where my next footstep would fall. The tiny fawn broke cover at the
last second and disappeared behind me. Knowing her mom was not far off
I just kept walking and did not try to see her again. I can only
imagine what she was thinking as my foot descended on her.
The sun is still blank with a flux index of 68. There was a CME on
the backside a day ago so there should be a spot headed our way. With
it there should be some increased activity next week. Until then we can
enjoy the quiet background with weaker signals. Hopefully we will do as
well as we did last week when I was able to work folks I had not heard
in over a month. One never can tell.
Please join us tomorrow on:
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7045 kHz at 0000z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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