Tom, It is Satuyrday morning after the big tornado in st. Louis.  I just
wanted ti be sure your Son and family are ok.  St. Charles got hit pretty
bad in some areas.  Lambert is a total mess, and Marilyn Heights and several
areas really have a tremendous amount of damage.

We were lucky here.  There were two tornados and one went north of us and
the other went south.  We got a pretty good thunderstorm out of it, but
little or no damage as far as I know.

I'll try to make the net this afternoon.

73
Kris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:02 PM
Subject: What A Difference A Day Makes!


> Hi, everyone.
>
> Well, this evening, I'm happy to report that I appear to be back in
> business
> on HF!!
>
> Today was one of those nice Michigan Spring days, and one of my good ham
> friends came over and successfully installed my Radio Shack 10-foot mast
> extension on top of my 30-foot telescopic mast.  I need to do a lot more
> checking, but initially, my SWR's look reasonable with both antennas on
> the
> various bands.  I also will now be in a position to really see if my RFI
> problem with my Heil mic set-up has been resolved, so there will be lots
> of
> testing ahead for me here.  I'll be out of town tomorrow, but should have
> some time tonight and tomorrow night to get a better feeling of how things
> are working.
>
> If everything goes according to plan here, I should be available to do the
> 40-meter east-coast mid-west round table Saturday afternoon.  So, if there
> is enough interest, and if there are no ongoing contests, I'll be on or
> near
> 7.185 MHZ at 4 p.m. Eastern (2100 Z) Saturday afternoon.
>
> If things change, I'll let everyone know, but for now, I'll plan to head
> up
> the round table if that's ok with everyone.
>
> More later for sure!
>
> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ