[OKDXA] The Problem with Snow Days...

[Kim Elmore]

A little sunshine, even at 24F, does wondrous thing. At ~1 kW of 
insolation per sq m, all is back to normal!

73,

Kim N5OP

On 2/3/2022 11:51 AM, Kim Elmore 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)

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