[NCC] WRTC Report

[Jim K8MR via NCC]

 Well, I'm almost to WRTC. Which is good considering that at one point Sunday night I did not know if I'd be here at all.

Last Friday we got a call from the assisted living place where my mother lives, that she had fallen and been taken to the emergency room. She ended up diagnosed with a fractured pelvis. I saw her on Saturday and she was doing OK for her situation. But then on Sunday various things started happening, ending with a call from the hospital at 10:30pm that the staff hospitalist thought she needed emergency surgery to check out what was going on. The surgeon was indeed called in, but after examining her and her files decided it was best not to operate. But for the several hours I could see myself spending the weekend hanging around a hospital or worse.

Fortunately she is doing better, the doctors have settled on a wait and watch approach to the complicating issues, and my sister from Florida flew up and is doing the local family help. Wanting to see her before we left Sharon, we got a much later start of our trip to NJ on Monday (where our daughter and grandson live), and spent? extra time there this morning before leaving to get Linda to her cousin's place on Cape Cod where she will be spending the week. I'm there tonight, and will be off to WRTC land in the morning.

Thanks to all for the good wishes. And thanks to all of you that supported WRTC to make it able to do all this. Solar conditions look great, the weather forecasts sound ideal, and we'll be looking for all of you in the pileups, and hope to work you many times, along with all those infinite piles of Europeans that one has to endure from W1.

73,

Jim? K8MR