While the rest of the country gets slammed with ice and snow, Seattle-land has gotten a foot of snow over the last five days – and it is all still here. Highly unusual.
Since Seattle doesn’t use salt for the roads and sidewalks, when the snow sticks, all sorts of bad things happen to travel. Including [...]
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Tag Archive: Seattle
Yaktrax rock in ice and snow
Sunspot Saturday, August 16, 2008
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Finding and Converting Latitude and Longitude
Over the IARU weekend, during the lousy band conditions in the middle of the day here in the Pacific Northwest, I did one of my rabbit hole excursions. I wanted to find the exact latitude and longitude of my house and enter that into the ham programs (like WriteLog, DX Atlas, and W6EL Propagation) I [...]
27 Amateur Radio Field Day 2008 Videos
Field Day is always a blast. Following the break, all the videos I could find from clubs and Field Day.
Enjoy!
June contesting weekend
It was a big contest weekend, at least here in the states with the ARRL VHF contest. Lots of people were out looking for elusive VHF openings and stations to work — and found them. Quickly perusing the scores this morning finds many stations worked over quite some distances. Amongst the floods of the [...]
Thinking about Portable HF Operation
While on vacation this week, I was often treated to full size views of Lake Michigan. Not seeing the other side of the lake made me think of living on the ocean back in Seattle-land. There is a choice that kept setting itself up in my head.
Have a house on the beach or go portable [...]
Searching for Salt Water: Why?
In the last couple of posts, I’ve talked about searching for salt water as something I’m planning on doing for contests. Or…may do for contests; it’s not really decided yet. What are the reasons? Here’s the recap:
DXpeditions are expensive. Yes, it really does cost dollars to go to places, even places where the antenna infrastructure [...]
Searching for Salt Water — County Park
As I noted yesterday, I’ve had to opportunity to go looking for places where I could use verticals over salt water here in Seattle-land for contesting.
As promised, I have a few pictures to show the areas in question. The first area is a county park that meets my criteria for operating.
The issue here is the [...]
Phoenix
It was an uneventful ride from Seattle to Phoenix. US Airways had a nice flight. With all the time changes, I never really know the actual flight time until I get on the plane and they announce it. The flight time to Phoenix was about two hours and thirty minutes.
That’s a little different from Phoenix [...]
Seattle Airport
I’m sitting at the gate, waiting for the US Airways plane to go from here to Phoenix. Once in Phoenix, I change planes and continue on to San Jose, Costa Rica. The flight leaves Seattle at 8:20 AM and I don’t get into San Jose until about 10:00 PM Costa Rican time tonight. Costa [...]
