Good Evening,
It was a good week. Sunny and chilly, now wet and foggy. On
Wednesday I was out pruning when I saw a largish, white raptor ridge
soaring past. The next opening gave me more markings. An elbow patch
underneath the wing and little color. It seemed familiar, accipter of
Oregon was my first search. I got five hits but none of them fit. For
some reason most photos show hawks from above. When was the last time
you saw a hawk from above? I digress. I grabbed my Hawks field guide
and searched for regional falcons. Still no luck. Then I scanned the
photos of the underside of the wings. That got me the right markings
but it was not a falcon, or a hawk. It was an osprey. Must have been
soaring from the Tualatin River watershed north to the Columbia River.
Incorrect assumptions led me astray. The pointy wings, which hinted
accipter, were really him while he was slowing down by "crowing". Since
there are no rivers or lakes nearby I did not think of a water bird.
A CME hit today. The auroral oval is very much awake. However, the
solar flux rate is down to 77. This suggests noisy conditions with QSB,
of course. There are some sunspots too. One of them is active and
aimed at us. You never know.
Please join us on (or near):
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7047 kHz at 0000z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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Slide rule: Post Versalog II, far, far away
Drafting set: Dietzgen, five feet away
Triangle set: Post, five feet away
Mechanical pencil: Kohinoor, eight feet away
Architectural ruler: within arm's reach
Engineering ruler: five feet away
Closest drawing board, with T-square: ten feet away
Mechanical drawing classes: 2 years in high school, 1 semester in college.
Typing class: 1 year in high school -- topped out at 65 wpm
16 years of training by a WWII Marine Corps Drill Instructor: priceless :)
I use my typing skills every day. The construction techniques I learned
in mechanical drawing help me draw with modern CAD tools about once a
month.
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