[Elecraft] K2100 and KAT100 Question and a side note about Alaska

[Edward R Cole]

Ted,

Can't tell you how often folks with lower-48 experience expect to 
take a vacation in late August or September during "the cooler sunny 
fall months".  Maybe where you live its like that in August-September 
but in southcentral and southeast Alaska its time for the fall 
monsoons.  Summer wx up here is great from mid-May to mid-July after 
which the wx shifts to the rainy season and temps drop.  In parts of 
AK first frost arrives the third week of August and leaves start 
dropping.  Our trees are bare by end of Sept.

But the coastal climate from the Alaska Peninsula thru Anchorage - 
Prince William Sound down the SE coast is overcast rainy and 50-60F 
wx starting mid to end of July.  Oh it stops raining about every 
8-9th day so one can mow the lawn which has grown 6-8 inches in 
between "dry" days.

We had a super nice summer this year with up into the 70's sunny and 
clear.  But that is over now (except very occasional day or two thru 
fall until it snows (usually by Halloween).  Except the last three 
winters have been unusually warm with above freezing temps and nearly 
no snow (I plowed only two time last winter).  Normally we have 18-24 
inches of snow cover all winter with temps down to -15F and a very 
few down to -25F (not seen in almost 8 years).

Welcome to global warming!  Not a theory up here.

73, Ed
PS I've lived up here for 37 years so have seen the change.

At 03:32 PM 7/26/2016, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>snip-------
>
>Incidentally, in case Ed Cole, KL7UW, is reading the mail, I have 
>been cruising the inside passage for the past week, Sitka today and 
>heading for Anchorage two days from now.  Is it always incessant 
>cold rain this time of year?  Never mind sunspots; I have forgotten 
>what the sun looks like.  Otherwise, beautiful territory.
>
>Ted, KN1CBR

73, Ed - KL7UW
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