Good Evening,
Loggers moved in early Monday. Today I am hearing the beeping like
after a CW contest. Each time the harvester moves forward or backward
there are a series of blasts from the air-horn. The logger told me it
is fed directly from the hydraulic cooling system's air pumps. Luckily
he is done with the wood nearest the house. That means it will be
quieter next week. Here is a link to the harvester he is using.
https://www.barko.com/products/tracked-harvesters/ With this machine he
is cutting, limbing, and bucking to length about one tree a minute. If
the log he is cutting is unmarketable he bucks it up for firewood.
There is no way I will ever be able to use it all.
A note on our Elecraft CW Net exchange. Since it is a directed net
I call for check ins then work each in order. I send a signal report
and pass control to the operator. They send me a signal report and
whatever it is they want to talk about and then pass control back to
me. Weather is simple and often gets mentioned. Snow, ice, hail,
floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, forest fires, etc have been described.
Crop reports, pets, kids, and travel too. Occasionally a new antenna
will get checked. Other times a new piece of gear will get tested. We
did hear the 1500 watt amp first-hand quite early in its history. As
the KX1, K3, KX2, and KX3 came along they got checked in too.
Operators have used the legal limit down to milliwatts to get my
attention. My ears were tested at both ends of that spectrum :) Some
folks like to practice copying faster code so they follow along. I get
many comments about net reports and how they could hear me even if they
did not check in. I have never closed any of the nets; I think that
would be presumptuous. At the end of every net I send QNF which means
there is a free net. I normally am off the air at that point but I do
leave the radio on and can hear further exchanges. It has been fun for
many years.
There was another short lived sunspot from cycle 25 this week.
That's two in less than a month. I sense a trend. Maybe this spring
we'll see a flowering of new spots.
Please join us tomorrow on:
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (2 PM PST Sunday)
7047 kHz at 0000z Monday (4 PM PST Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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