Hey, Phil.

Didn't they tell you not to drink the water in New Jersey?  Once you drink
the water there, you have to come back, sticky armpit weather not withstanding!

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 10:45 PM 6/28/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>My wife and I just went to the east coast for the first time.  My oldest
>son, and his family, moved there due to employment three years ago.  We
>landed in Phily, a cool place if I ever saw one, but my son lives 45 minutes
>away in New Jersey.  We went back to Phily for a tour and I really enjoyed
>that city.  Feeling the Liberty Bell was almost a spiritual experience; no
>fooling.  Anyhow, of course, I packed my Sony 20 10 and couldn't wait to
>fire it up the first time.  Living out west all my life, I've never heard
>Europe on 80 meters 30 over 9.  I have, when I owned a 40 meter beam, heard
>Europe on 40 meters even louder but that's when the bands were good.  So, as
>I was saying, I was like a kid with a new toy when I cranked up the short
>wave radio.  Dad gum it, I never heard one European, except for maybe on 20
>meters, and the bands were almost dead.  I heard a few local high powered
>stations rag chewing on 75 meters at night but I could hardly copy WWV on
>any frequency at any time and some nights I was tuning the bands after
>midnight.  I heard a goodly amount of stuff when I got home and listened to
>Field Day but unless my memory is fading fast, in my 39 years of being a
>ham, these are about the worst band conditions I have ever heard even if it
>is summer.  I thought it was just because I was in the mountains but I guess
>not.  You gals and guys on the east coast?  Is it really as bad as it
>sounded a couple of weeks ago out there?  Oh, one more thing.  If you
>easterns don't do something about the high humidity out there, I'm never
>coming back to visit you.  Denver's drier climate is Heaven compared to what
>I suffered out there.  I never drank so much water and pop, soda, in my life
>than when I was out there and it wasn't even hot when we were there.  You
>folks have got to fix the weather out there or I will never build my big DX
>contest station on the east coast.  Man, winter must be deadly out there.
>My cowboy hat nearly wilted from all the water in the air.
>
>73,
>Phil,
>K0NX

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