We've gotten about 4 - 6 inches so far today. Right now, it's freezing rain and sleeting. In the next hour or so, the muck is supposed to turn back to heavy snow. About another 10 inches or so by the morning. Eegads! Add to the muck the fact that we've also been experiencing some on and off thundersnow throughout the evening. Nice touch!
On the bright side, in between bouts of thundersnow, I did eek out a QSO with John AE5X as K6JSS/5 tonight - and I really do mean eek out. It was tough. John was 449 here on 7.111 MHz; but the QSB was a wild, untamed beast. John would go from a very copyable 449 to ESP in milliseconds, and then back up again. Definitely like riding a roller-coaster. We exchanged RSTs and really not much else except very brief greetings and salutations. I am listening to him now as he slid up to 7.1115 MHz to avoid some QRM. He's calling CQ over and over - he needs some takers!
I have to thank John for his very fine pair of earbones, that he was able to pull my QSB signal out of the aether. John and his K3 - a very good combination!
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
Also a 5-letter word...awful. It is interesting that these storms are more coastal. Not that there isn't snow in central NYS, but the coast seems to be hit the most. 73 Dick N2UGB
ReplyDeleteLarry,
ReplyDeleteThe rust-belt Heartland where I live is looking better all the time. ;-)
Sorry for your repeated snowfalls and hope you survive what's still to come!
73 de Jeff KE9V