Good Evening,
Conditions were not good, abysmal comes to mind. However, the day was
not a total bust. Two flocks of warblers are surrounding the flowering
shrubs near the house. The yellow warbler is fairly common, they got on
my life list almost ten years ago. But there was a new one which has
been hard to pin down. They showed up about a week ago and I've not
been able to see them long enough to get decent field marks. Today they
were outside this window for a full five minutes so I now have the male
and female Townsend's warbler on my list. Woo Hoo! A new one is always
exciting.
I also tracked down a bug which appears to be almost 40 years old. In
1980 I began modeling three dimensional objects. First came my house
then the Platonic solids, then I generated various frequency geodesic
spheres. Those geodesics are all based on my home brew icosahedron data
set. The problem was with the lower five faces. Instead of being
ordered counter-clockwise they were in the opposite order. When I
created the eight frequency geodesic data set earlier this week the
display app broke showing all sorts of odd faces. Once I put the
original data into the proper order the generating program gave me the
correct data. Now I have the sun orbiting my new sphere as was intended.
Two victories in one day outweigh the horrid, abysmal, poor, bad,
terrible propagation. I also received a number of emails telling me
about visiting relatives, trees falling on antennas, loon obsession, and
having to visit the clinic. Time for me to get out with my binoculars
and spy the next occupant on my life list or find another ancient bug.
This code would be much simpler in APL. In Forth it was blazingly fast
even on my TRS-80, using C/C++ on a modern processor blows my mind. Or
propagation could improve.
On 14051 kHz at 2200z:
K6XK - Roy - IA
K4TAX - Bob - TN
On 7048 kHz at 0000z:
K6PJV - Dale - CA
K0DTJ - Brian - CA
One of these days conditions will improve. Until then remember all the
other aspects of your life. Fishing is a good metaphor for amateur
radio. Sometimes they are just not biting. Other times have you
logging ops faster than you can type. And, then, of course, there are
the loons :)
Until next week stay well,
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
Good news! If we're in the right place we're here.
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