Good Evening,
Cross-training is good. I'm am learning to use a single lever
paddle. However, when I make a mistake with it I get tense, which
causes more mistakes. I tend to miss the dit side when my thumb
stiffens up. Then I remembered my breathing exercises. They calm me
down, take my mind off of the mechanics and back on what I am sending.
Breathing correctly slows things down to establish a rhythm. So hours
on the firing line, trying to hit the X at 600 yards helped me send
smoother CW.
Conditions were better than I had expected. They were close to what
Bill, AE6JV experienced last night. Real world propagation reports beat
predictions. Twenty meters was medium quiet with moderate to weak
signals. Copy was OK because there was not much noise nor was there
much QSB. Forty meters was not like that. It had QSB and some summer
storms.
The crews fighting all the forest fires from British Columbia down
to California are being overworked. California has the most, and the
largest fires. I am very happy the winds are from offshore. If they
were from any other direction it would be smokey up here. It has been
very nice to breath fresh air this week. Hopefully some of the rain I
am getting will travel East and South.
On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z:
NO8V - John - MI
W0CZ - Ken - ND
K6XK - Roy - IA
AB9V - Mike - IN
K4JPN - Steve - GA
On 7047.5 kHz at 0000z:
K0DTJ - Brian - CA
K6PJV - Dale - CA
Until next week 73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
-
Chris Stevens: Today, a belated apology to the much maligned Chicken
Little. It turns out you were right - the sky is falling. The National
Space Administration informs us that Uncle Sam's Com-Sat 4 satellite is
in a rapidly decaying orbit. That's their way of saying a ton of angry
space trash is heading back home at fifteen thousand miles an hour. What
does that make me think of? Makes me think of a triceratops, innocently
munching a palm frond when out of the sky, whammo, a meteor sucker
punches old mother Earth. Next thing you know, that triceratops, along
with a hundred and seventy-five million years of dinosaur evolution, is
nothing but history. To that unsung triceratops and all its kin, here's
a song for you...
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