Please stay safe. The K4 is just parts. You are irreplaceable. On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:11 PM Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote:
> 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 r...@wc3t.us -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ 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
