Good Day All,
Well, Spring sure has arrived early this year in this part of "VE3"-land---so
early, in fact, that the XYL is making noises to-day about our starting to rake
the lawn in preparation for the ongoing 6 month long grass harvesting season
here in southern Ontario...
The odious task of raking is scheduled to commence this coming Sunday, & that
means but one thing: it's time to roll up the radials beneath the "L" antennas
here, & vacate Topband until the end of October 2012 (sigh!).
In as much as I may hate leaving 160-meters "...for the duration", I must say
that---for me, at any rate---this season on 1.8-MHz will be memorable if only
for the fact that things more or less shut down here, propagation-wise, earlier
this year than last: in 2011, things sorta died in January---2012 saw things
wither on the vine early in December. Oh, there were moments of bliss, alright,
and I have two new ones in my 160-meter DXCC total to show for it...but hardly
anything to make it a stand-out season for all of the RIGHT reasons.
Fingers here are crossed that 2012-13 will more than make-up for the past...!
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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