[Elecraft] ECN Report for 18 Dec 2006

[Matthew D. Pitts]

Tom,

Thanks for the message from Kevin. I'm glad to hear that he's all right 
physically, though I can imagine that he's shaken up by the situation. Pass 
along my well wishes the next time you have a chance to talk to him; I'm 
sure I'm not the only one on the list that would like him to know that we're 
thinking of him.

Matthew N8OHU
>   Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:13:04 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
>
>   Just got phone service an hour ago. I am now running off
>   battery power through an inverter. I have over a thousand
>   messages to wade through via webmail. I am running a laptop
>   which does not pull mail from the server.
>
>   I am OK, rattled to the extreme, but OK. It took quite a while
>   to stop shaking after the tree fell a few feet from where I was
>   sitting. I was in the strongest part of the house and to
>   windward. The tree limbs were flying over that part of the
>   house but not at the windows. None were broken. Drywall and
>   broken branches exploded through the new room and the rest of
>   the house. Every few feet there was a hole through the roof. If
>   I'd have been anywhere but where I was I most likely would have
>   holes in me too!
>
>   Power may be back on by Thursday. I have not found the other
>   end of the broken G5RV or the tree which was supporting it. If
>   the trees were not in straight lines I would say we had been
>   hit by a tornado. Hundreds of trees are down on my twenty
>   acres. The four Trojan T-105 (backup batteries) started at 12.7
>   volts. They are down to 12.2 volts now after booting a desktop
>   unit to tranfer files to the laptop and running the IC-706 for
>   comms. I still have a J-pole up so I got my nephew to help me
>   limb the hemlock and cover the roof with plastic. Luckily the
>   wind and rain came to an end. It has snowed but that is not as
>   bad.
>
>   The water I had standing by in five gallon buckets froze but
>   that simply made it easier to transfer into the bathroom. I
>   used a pan to transfer the top few inches in the toilet tank
>   and the poured to the fill line. I've run out of back up water
>   so am going to a beaver pond tomorrow to steal some of their's.
>   I don't think they will mind because their pond is spring fed.
>   I'll get a few more days of flushing water. I have cut my way
>   down the mountain and have gotten more supplies. I did heat
>   some water on the wood stove for shaving and washing.
>
>   I hope to be back on the air but if priorities push the antenna
>   launch date off that is the way it goes. If I get power this
>   week it will ease my burden. Sure is nice to have Internet
>   contact again! I will stay in touch and keep you apprised of my
>   progress.
>
>   Any ideas on who to call to lift off the hemlock
>   tree?
>
>   Kevin.
>
> 73,
>
> Tom   N0SS
>
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