Well, I planned on being on but we are iced in and the SWR is out of sight,
hope to catch you good folks next week. Living at 2400' does have its
drawbacks!!
Terry Price - W8ZN
Directive Systems and Engineering
On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM Dave Olean <K1WHS@metrocast.net> wrote:
> Hi VHFers,
>
> It is Tuesday and I should be heading up to the shack for the evening,
> but we are in the middle of the first big snowfall around here. The snow
> depth is predicted to be 6-10 inches, which is quite deep for
> negotiating the woods road that goes up to the shack. It looks like I
> will probably not make it this evening. Heaviest snow is this evening
> around activity time. I got up early and was hauling diesel fuel up at 8
> AM this morning. The generator fuel tank was very low and so I hauled a
> couple of fuel containers with 12 gallons of diesel. It was snowing at
> 7 am but had not accumulated much and i got the fueling completed. Now
> the snow is quiet deep and I am not sure that I can reach the shack.
> Temps are in the low 20's and will drop to single digits the rest of the
> week.
>
> Activity has been a bit slow on Tuesdays of late as cold weather and
> poor condx has thinned the herd a bit. Activity starts around 00:00 UT
> on the East Coast. Lots of contacts are made with coordination on the
> ON4KST Chat page
>
> http://www.on4kst.info/chat/index.php
>
> Activity spreads out around 222.100 with CW, SSB and FT8 on 222.174.
>
> 73
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
>
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