A small batch is in process to go out this week, and I'm sure Eric will post an update.
So how about a weather report? This past few weeks has been very difficult for California and the Bay Area in particular. No one could have anticipated this at the beginning of the month (remember the Ham Expo?), since fire season is usually in October. But worst-case conditions have been brewing for some time. Thanks to drought and record temperatures everything has become tinder-dry (10 years ago we'd get a few winter days in the 30F range, now the lowest we ever see is 40F). Bark beetle larvae are no longer culled during winter, turning trees into an insect smörgåsbord. This has left forests all over the West vulnerable. We had employees evacuated due to fires burning in or near the factory, and many of us elsewhere were on official alert status, thinking about what to pack. During this time the air quality has been horrendous (AQI over 200 some days). This has temporarily upended our strategy of keeping all the doors open to provide safe working conditions in the midst of the ongoing pandemic (remember that?) meaning virtually everyone is working from home. My family had to buy N95 masks just to be able to run errands. We still need them about 50% of the time, though the firefighters are making progress. In related news, one of our local field testers lost pretty much everything he owned, including his K4, due to one fire's unprecedented rampage through our coastal forests. And still we persist. All I can say, in the humbling face of nature, is...QRX. 73, Wayne N6KR > On Sep 1, 2020, at 4:29 AM, Nr4c <n...@widomaker.com> wrote: > > But well after closing for any of their regular shippers! > > Sent from my iPhone > ...nr4c. bill > > >> On Sep 1, 2020, at 12:55 AM, Macy monkeys <macymonk...@charter.net> wrote: >> >> >> It's not midnight yet on the west coast :) >> >> John K7FD ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
