[OKDXA] The Problem with Snow Days...

[John Geiger]

Not to worry, conditions are horrible today anyways.  Probably due to the
CME that occurred the other day. I think the K index was 5 earlier.  I
wasn't copying any EU stations on 17m or 15m FT8 this morning.

73 John AF5CC

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:51 AM Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Here I am, at home in weather that no one should be out in, certainly
> not on the roads. Work has declared that offices are closed, but that if
> we're capable, we should work from home. Of course, we are capable since
> we've been doing for nearly the past two years. So, the pandemic has
> taken away even our snow days. Sigh.
>
> But, I can still have the rig on and be on the watch listen for good
> ones. There isn't enough ice accumulation to change the match on my
> antennas due to dielectric loading, but I have just enough that I can't
> rotate may antennas. Sometimes I can break it loose but I'm not having
> much luck today. My tribander is pointed straight north, which leaves my
> 40 m 2 el beam pointing west. Sigh.
>
> 73 and don't overdo the shoveling,
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> --
> Kim Elmore, Ph
>
> Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP
> SEL/MEL/Glider, UAS, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
>
> /“I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two
> reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and
> secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven." – Jascha
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