[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[kevinr]

Good Evening,

     The rainy season coincides with the logging season. Since it is so 
wet fire danger is near zero. Skidding logs during the dry season can 
start fires just from the friction between logs. During the wet there is 
little need for the fire watch crew to stand guard for a week after a 
clearcut has been graded and transported to the mill. Normally the 
loggers cut stands in full sections so the Coast Range is a checkerboard 
on a mile square grid. On my way to town this week I passed through four 
active sites before I got to my mailbox in Buxton.

    When you meet a logger in town they are easy to recognize. The 
thousand yard stare is a tipoff, they are dead tired from on the job 
since 4 AM. Their attire is obvious too: suspenders, no belts - ever; 
they’re wearing slippers; and the cuffs of their jeans have been ripped 
off with both seams cut upward an inch or two. The slippers are because 
they normally wear corks which would shred any flooring or the cab of 
their truck. Suspenders and ripped seams are due to the nature of their 
work. Most non-fatal injuries are from being crushed by logs so the 
ripped seams and suspenders allow rapid access to their limbs.

    Mostly they make great neighbors except for being awakened by large 
timber hitting the earth or when they drop stumps into very large steel 
containers. Luckily the sound only carries about five miles or so and 
you get used to the whumping sounds over the years. Each time they open 
a new block the view of the terrain opens up too. I can now see the top 
of my mountain from a number of angles.

Please join us tomorrow on:

14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday)
   7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday)

73,
Kevin. KD5ONS

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