From: Mark Beckwith, WA6OTU - wa6otu@caltech.edu
To: Eric, NV6O
Hi Eric. Sorry this is probably a few days late. Northern Mockingbird
gestation if I remember, is about a week and a half. Once hatched they
only stay in the nest maybe another week before fledging, and once they
go, they don't use the nest anymore. (It will make a great offering to
your wife for the Christmas Tree).
The gist is, you should climb up there, and without touching anything, see
if turning the rotator actually has any adverse effect on the nest. You
will piss off the adults, who can be VERY bold, and may buzz you (they have
NO fear - I've got a GREAT photo of one attacking a Bald Eagle), but as long
as you don't touch anything, when you leave, I can assure you from several
personal experiences that they'll just go back to business as usual.
I think it is entirely possible, depending on the rotor and the shelf and the
exact placement of the nest, that there will be no interferance. If you
learn this, you should be able to turn your antenna in spite of the nest.
About fake owls, I know guys out here who swear they work great, but I think
when you've gone out and spent $25 you're less open to accepting reality when
you see they don't really work (psychologists call it 'denial'). When was the
last time any of you walked up to a wooden indian and struck up a
conversation? Birds are good at figuring stuff like this out. Plastic owls
don't work more than about a day. As for fake snakes - I have no personal
experience to draw from, but I would assume the same thing. Do any other
subscribers have any different experience with snakes OR owls?
And you guys thought Trey was joking when he drew similarities
between contesters and birdwatchers.
Mark, WA6OTU - wa6otu@caltech.edu
P.S. Just for my curiosity, anyone else out there count birds?
>From rmarosko@bcm.tmc.edu (Ron Marosko) Tue Jun 7 12:34:50 1994
From: rmarosko@bcm.tmc.edu (Ron Marosko) (Ron Marosko)
Subject: FW: VHF Condx
Message-ID: <rmarosko.279.000B9505@bcm.tmc.edu>
In article <2DF4BF4A@admin.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> "Skelton, Tom"
<TSkelton@engineer.clemsonsc.NCR.COM> writes:
>How was it on the Left Coast??
They had to be getting central U.S. pretty good. We worked gobs and gobs of
left coast on 6. Quick way to get VUCC, at least!
73, Ron NFN
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>From Steve Lund <stevel@sr.hp.com> Tue Jun 7 17:57:24 1994
From: Steve Lund <stevel@sr.hp.com> (Steve Lund)
Subject: FW: Final Results: W3XO/5 VHF Test
Message-ID: <9406071657.AA06039@srsdcst0.sr.hp.com>
> Who said conditions were awful? These were the best I've seen yet.
> ------------
>
> I said they were awful here in the SE USA. However, as I remember
> I also asked everyone to post how it was locally for them. In the words
> of Steve/WS4F: These are the worst conditions in 19 years of
> June contests. Another person said it sounded like the January
> contest instead of the June 'test.
>
> How was it on the Left Coast??
>
I'd say conditions were the second worse for the 21 years that I've been
in Northern California. Did have openings to KL7, VE8, and XE2, but total
QSOs and Grids were very low. Never really had a strong opening anywhere,
except for VE6.
Moving the contest date up was a very stupid idea. The June contest is
usually a 6m Es affair, but the first weekend in June is before the really
good openings occur in Northern California.
Steve WA8LLY/6
stevel@sr.hp.com
>From Jay Kesterson K0GU x6826 <jayk@bits.fc.hp.com> Tue Jun 7 18:00:33 1994
From: Jay Kesterson K0GU x6826 <jayk@bits.fc.hp.com> (Jay Kesterson K0GU x6826)
Subject: Fake owls
Message-ID: <9406071700.AA16702@bits.fc.hp.com>
They had a bird problem, around some machinery, here at the HP plant
were I work. They decided to give the fake owls a try. It didn't
give very good results. One of the maintaince crew has a photo of
a bird perched on the owl's head defecating.....
73, Jay K0GU jayk@fc.hp.com
>From Hal Blegen" <halb@comtch.iea.com Tue Jun 7 23:47:31 1994
From: Hal Blegen" <halb@comtch.iea.com (Hal Blegen)
Subject: $$$Prizes
Message-ID: <m0qB9vf-0000mSC@comtch.iea.com>
Some year ago Dovetron was kind enough to donate a new MPC-1000
as a prize for a WAS (QSL's required) RTTY contest. After-the-fact
the FCC indicated that there should be no more prizes offered for
contest that had any direct, monitary value. No matter how you
cut it, a cash prize is play for pay. I don't think the FCC has
changed their tune.
>From Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv@VNET.IBM.COM Wed Jun 8 04:12:27 1994
From: Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv@VNET.IBM.COM (Robert A. Wilson)
Subject: N6BT going to ARRL National Convention this weekend
Tom Schiller, N6BT, will be attending the ARRL National Convention
this weekend in Arlington, TX.
If you're a contester, stop by the Texas Towers' booth and say hello.
He loves to talk antennas. Say something like "heard about you on the
Internet." I'm trying to convince Tom to get with the program and get
himself connected. Maybe if enough guys mention the Internet he'll
finally realize just how much coverage we have here on this neat
little Reflector.
73,
Bob, N6TV
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