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[ted at teddowning.com]

Wes,

At the next meeting, wear a coonskin hat.

Ted

On Dec 9, 2021, at 4:03 PM, D Dismachek via SADXA <sadxa at mailman.qth.net<mailto:sadxa at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:

I can attest that there are racoons in my area. I have a trail cam looking at the bottom of my tower. I get all kinds of animals passing by. One day I caught a video of a racoon nosing around the base of my tower and he then climbed it. I put an aluminum plate on the back side of the tower to keep him from climbing.
...Dennis
   On Thursday, December 9, 2021, 03:46:20 PM MST, Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org<mailto:wes_n7ws at triconet.org>> wrote:

In the chase for TO9W QSOs I was derailed last night by a power outage.  We are
on Trico Electric and had a widespread, many hours long outage.  The cause?  A
raccoon crawled into the substation.

I've been in Tucson for 75 years and haven't ever seen a raccoon in the valley
until a couple of weeks ago when I saw a dead one on the road in Saguaro NP West.

Interestingly, the same day I was loading some stuff in the car so I had the
door to the driveway open and came out of the house on one trip and had a little
critter in the garage.  He practically climbed on my foot.  At first thought it
appeared to be a baby coatimundi.  I know those don't live here either, but
considering the raccoon I figured anything was possible.  I scooted him into a
live trap I have and did some more research.  Eventually identified him as a
ferret.

A canvas of the neighborhood revealed that the next door neighbor owned him and
didn't even know he was missing.

Wes  N7WS
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