Hi Gang:
I knew this wasn't going to be good when I got up and the temp. was 7F. I
decided to wait until 11am local, to get 'some' warmth. While I was packing
up the stuff, a neighbor called, and was frantic. Pipe had burst, and water
was everywhere. I ran over, shut off the water to her furnace humidifier, and
it turned out, it was so cold, the air through the furnace room vent had
turned the pipe to ice! Bad oman!
I returned home, finished packing, set up operation in the snow, and found I
couldn't send cw worth a damn with gloves. The sun was out, and I took the
gloves off, and got down to business. Worked NG1G, my first VT, and started
switching back and forth between 40 and 20M.
Worked my younger brother, Joe, AB7TT, :-) with a huge 59 signal booming in.
Then, after about an hour of operating, I noticed the clouds had come in, the
temp dropped from 29F to 26F in a matter of minutes, and my hands were
shaking, even though I put my operating hand in my pocket between contacts.
Then light snow....falling on my QRP+ and me.
Time to end this craziness, and pack up. No one told me that RG58 turns into
hardline at 20+ degrees :-) Sort of stuffed it into the car, to let it warm
up.
I made 8 contacts in an hour, if I count Paul, NA5N. We exchanged full
reports at this end, but no verification at his end. I had three states on
40M with 599 signals. Not bad!
Sure, I'd try it again next year, but I think I might try my fishing gloves
with the fingers cut out next time. Great fun Joe, thanks for organizing it
with the rest of the ScQRPions.
73, Bob, ScQRPion # 31
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Bob Follett AB7ST, QRP-L # 129, NorCal, ARCI, 10-10, ARS
2861 Estates Dr. VOICE: 801.649.6457
Park City, UT 84060 E-mail: bfollett@ditell.com
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