Hot and humid, chance of rain.<\/p>\n
And I’m gonna be out driving around most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I didn’t leave the house.\u00a0 It rained pretty good all morning, which kept me from making any drop offs.\u00a0 I did get some stuff done in the garage, mainly shelves and getting my work areas back together.\u00a0 I put my 2 ft cube light box ($5 auction special) out there, and moved electrical strips, fans, worklights, and small wall mount shelves around.\u00a0 Still a long way to go, but it feels like progress.<\/p>\n
I also spent about a half hour or more listening to my ham lunch buddies on their weekly net.\u00a0 They’re all doing a net on 2m rather than getting together for lunch.\u00a0 I can’t talk with them because I can’t hit the repeater from my house with my current antenna\/radio combo.\u00a0 I’ve got antennas for my ‘big’ radio, but haven’t put them up mainly because I have the quad band mobile for 2m and 70cm.\u00a0 If I get the big radio hooked to an appropriate antenna, I can pump 100 watts at the problem.\u00a0 That should work…\u00a0 my other choice is a directional antenna for 2m on my mobile.\u00a0 Either way, not happening this week.\u00a0 (I’m in the radio shadow of a new office tower that is taller than the repeater antenna, and right between me and the repeater.)<\/p>\n
Speaking of rain, more should be headed our way as the next tropical storm is headed up Florida.\u00a0 Busy season so far.\u00a0\u00a0 Being prepped up for wuflu has gotten me a big jump on hurricane preps, so I’ll give it that.<\/p>\n
And I’ll keep working on replacing what little we’ve used from our long term stacks…because it isn’t going to get better for a long time.<\/p>\n
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Hot and humid, chance of rain.<\/p>\n
And I’m gonna be out driving around most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I didn’t leave the house.\u00a0 It rained pretty good all morning, which kept me from making any drop offs.\u00a0 I did get some stuff done in the garage, mainly shelves and getting my work areas back together.\u00a0 I put my 2 ft cube light box ($5 auction special) out there, and moved electrical strips,<\/p>\n