[OKDXA] The Problem with Snow Days...

[Jeff Martin]

  We probably got 3 or 4 inches of snow on the ground. Started yesterday with a little rain, then freezing drizzle, then snow overnight. Had to get out this morning and shovel a patch for the dog to do her business... Antennas are turning, bands not so great... Right now 19 degrees, light snow, probably won't amount to much more... not too bad, could have been worse...

Stay warm...

73,
Jeff - K5WE


-----Original Message-----
From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of GARYLM at kiamichiwb.org
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2022 2:32 PM
To: Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] The Problem with Snow Days...

HOPE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TURN THE ANTENNAS SOON.  I HAVENT EVEN BEEN OUT TO THE SHACK  TODAY, BEEN BREAKING ICE OUT OF WATER FOR ANIMALS, EVERYTHING HERE COVERED IN ICE AND SNOW. HOPING OUTSIDE WATER LINES DON'T FREEZE AND BUST.
GOOD LUCK
73 GARY  WQ5R


--- cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net wrote:

From: Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>
To: Oklahoma DX Association <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [OKDXA] The Problem with Snow Days...
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 11:51:01 -0600

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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