well, we've been having a very wet summer here so far.
We're on the prairies, where it is supposed to be somewhat damp in May and 
June, then hot and dusty for July and august.
We've had so much rain here.  I have never seen this much rain since I've 
been here; 11 years.  Old timers say they have never seen it rain this much 
in one year, let alone over the space of two or three months.
We haven't yet hit a day time high of 30C which usually happens by the end 
of the first week in July.
Global warming? not here lol.
Last winter was long, and had more days below minus 15C than any winter for 
something like 40 years.  We had a record snow fall last winter as well.
We've got record mosquito populations as well...again, more already this 
season than anything on record for this region.
That is mostly to do with the rain and standing water.  So, it's been rainy, 
less than hot, and one cannot go outdoors without liberally coating oneself 
with mosquito repellent.  And, it seems as though the little buggers have 
mutated to the point where the stuff attracts them instead of repelling 
them.
So send some of that Oklahoma heat up this way.

6M has opened occasionally acording to a couple guys I've talked to.  also, 
10M has had some nice openings into south america and Europe.

I worked the republic of Jorja, 9A7R on tuesday evening on 20M as well as 
P43E in aruba.

We seem to get very good paths on 20 into south america as well this time of 
year.

73
Colin, V A6BS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: Is everyone on vacation???


> I think the messages are evaporating out of the Internet
> in the heat. On Sunday, Stillwater, OK hit 111. We reached 109
> yesterday and we have had one day like that after another most
> of the Summer.
>
> I plan to take vacation the week of Labor Day so I get
> 32 hours of leave but get the whole week off.
>
> The Six Meter band is occasionally coming to life around
> here but nothing much else is. We're all just waiting for those
> glorious cool days of Fall.
>
> I work for Oklahoma State University in our
> telecommunications department and we are getting the last few
> changes we can make to the network in before August 1. At that
> point, we can't make any more changes until two weeks after
> School starts which is August 22 this year.
>
> The next couple of weeks here are going to be as dead as
> a doornail. No kids, lots of heat and the place like a ghost
> town in the afternoons.
>
> I was listening to hiss and static on 6-meters Sunday
> when, out of the blue, this fellow in Montana was calling CQ. I
> don't think I heard anybody else so it always pays to give a
> spin through 6 and 10. You never know what you'll find.