Good Evening,
The weather this week has been autumnal. Yesterday the temperature got all
the way up to 50 degrees again. That was a pleasant change from the days
preceeding it. Last night we had our first frost. On my trip down the
mountain to get my mail today I saw more trees changing colors. Yes, there are
a few deciduous trees here but not many; they spray them from helicopters so
the fir trees grow better. I kept splitting and stacking wood because it may
get cold this winter. It changed from sunny and very warm (80s) to wet and
chilly to sunny and cold very quickly. In the matter of ten days the season
passed from summer to autumn. I transitioned from having a small fire once a
week to keeping it going full time.
Twenty meters came and went all week. Solar streams created noisy
conditions. The noise combined with QSB made my morning skeds more and more
difficult as the week progressed. I know we just entered another solar stream
and can hear the noise level rising. Hopefully we will leave this stream
before tomorrow evening. There is a sunspot gracing the solar disk so there is
hope we are ever so slightly past the solar minimum. Conditions allow plenty
of room for improvement. I did not listen on forty meters but eighty was not
bad when I checked into the MARS nets. All that being said one never knows
what will happen tomorrow until we test conditions. All bands are dead if no
one calls into the quiet.
Please join us tomorrow evening.
1) Hail signs (first letter or two of the suffix of your call)
2) NCS help (as well as QSP/QNP <relay> help)
3) Call by time zone (East, Central & Mountain, everybody else)
Sunday 2300z (Sunday 4 PM PDT) 14050 kHz
Monday 0200z (Sunday 7 PM PDT) 7045 kHz
Stay well,
Kevin. KD5ONS
ecn.visionseer.com
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