Good Evening,
The week began with wet weather. Perfect for an net search to
follow a hint by K0DTJ. Brian mentioned the Merlin phone app, which
helps you identify birds. https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org Part of it
is sound files. Deeper digging got me to
https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/guide-to-bird-sounds/ which had exactly
the sound files I wanted. $20 for over 4000 sound files from 900
species of birds in Canada, the US, Mexico, and parts of South America.
It is interesting to notice the regional dialects of a species. The
local Pileated Woodpecker population may not understand the call from
their Carolina cousins. This summer I will put a few speakers out this
window and see who I can attract. Last night the Saw Whet owls woke me
up. Maybe I should play their tune during the daytime :)
One small sunspot is showing, while the auroral oval is stronger
than last week. Flux is at 77 sfu. I expect more noise with deeper
QSB. However, you never can tell until you try. I took a hike to check
the growth on the thinned trees. Along the way I tightened the guy
lines to my antennas. The winter winds had pulled them upward on the
shrubs they were holding. When the weather turns sunny again I will
trim the central tree of dead branches. That will let me raise the
antenna about twenty feet. Then I can test how it works when it is not
behind a wall of soil. Luckily that is on the western side; off to the
east the way is open well into Washington. On a clear day that is where
Mt. St. Helens would appear.
Notice the time change. Same sun angles as last week just one hour
later on our normal clock.
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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They took me down the grading station
And they classified me zed
'Cause of over population
They told me that I would soon be dead
But I slipped out of the force field
And hid beneath the monorail
But the automatic blood hounds
Lord, they're soon hot along my trail
Now if I had been a scholar
With computer working hard
Then my molecular structure
Would not be on the grader's card
So, I know that they will get me
Put my index in the brain
Then, the atoms of my body
Will be disposed of, Lordy, down the drain
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