So we're still just about 99.5 percent s#$w free here. We had some s#$w during the night, but a high in the low 40s today got rid of virtually all of it, thank goodness. Now maybe some day he'll help me set up some track and try it out at that stage. We didn't set up any track, but just clip leaded the power to the engines. We pulled out the transformer and 3 of my engines just to see if they still worked. It had been up in the attic for many years of not being used. I mentioned I had an old Lionel set, and he was interested in seeing it. His dad worked on the railroad, and he enjoys model trains. My gardening friend Ange came over today. In just a few minutes it will be 0000Z and time to try to stretch the streaks another day. Unlike yesterday when it took several checks of the bands to work someone, today's QSO came on my first check just past 1400Z when I found and easily worked OF9X on 20 meters. Thursday, Decem6:50 PM - DX day # 1,400 went in the books (log) quickly this morning. But we'll have to wait and see as outlooks that far ahead have a very low percentage of correctness. Actually (knock on wood) the outlook for the next 60 days doesn't look too bad. Well, 1/3 of winter has passed now with only one annoying bad weather day. Then add the partial year of 1994 when I started the streak and that makes 8,185 consecutive days.Īlthough I will probably make a few SKN QSOs, I don't really get all that excited about the event since I use CW 365 days a year, quite often with a SK. That completes 22 full years of daily QSOs. He was running 3W from an old HW-8 which he is setting up to use for SKN tomorrow evening. However I figure that will also slip away as we get more and more into the sunspot minimum.Īt least my regular streak QSO came quickly this evening when AI2T answered my CQ on 80 meters. 20, and sometimes 17 are pretty good at that hour for DX. That is, get on the bands, especially 20 meters, as soon as I get up and get dressed a little before 1400Z. I think the best bet to continue the streak is what I've been doing the past few days. Even 40 meters is almost dead here now in that hour. 30-įriday, Decem7:53 PM - I think it's just about time to write off the 0000Z hour for getting my DX streak QSO. OK, now to get started on those EOM/EOY projects. I'm looking forward to a lot of great things in ham radio among life in general. I'm sure 2017 is going to be a great year. So I want to take this opportunity to wish all my site visitors a very Happy New Year. The last will have to wait till late tonight or tomorrow though. Since I won't be getting on the air again today, I can upload my December log to LoTW and eQSL, compile some stats for my ham activities in 2016, and my December and 2016 weather stats. So now I can get started on a lot of end of month and end of year projects. Saturday, Decem8:56AM - Another full year of DX QSOs has just been completed after working PD1DX on 20 meters a few minutes ago.
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