[OKDXA] The Problem with Snow Days...

[Roger Simpson]

Snow days can cause problems. My rotator is also frozen.   

However, one good thing FINALLY happened. My 5 band DXCC plaque with endorsement medallions for 12m, 17m, and 30m arrived today. I talked to Sharon Tarantula back in October and she told me that many plaques are being delayed due to holdups in shipping the plaques from China. Maybe my award spent a few weeks – or months – sitting between San Pedro and Catalina waiting to be unloaded from a cargo container on a ship. 

Right now my beam is frozen pointing due West --  i. e. to VK land.  I don’t know if there is any propagation to VK or not for us. I’m going to turn on the rig and listen around on 17m, 15m, and 12m on FT8. 

73     Roger   K5RKS  

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From: John Geiger
Sent: Thursday, February 3, 2022 1:16 PM
To: Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] The Problem with Snow Days...

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
> Heifetz/
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