{"id":6022,"date":"2017-09-16T20:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6022"},"modified":"2017-09-17T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T13:29:02","slug":"warm-again-and-radio-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6022","title":{"rendered":"Warm again and radio thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Thursday: 3.5 miles; today a hot 5 miles with lots of walking]<\/p>\n<p>We had the joy of having the young Dykstra couple in town just passing through.\u00a0 They came in last night.\u00a0 We had a dinner and talked a bit.\u00a0 Then they were off in the morning on their way to Des Moines and then home to Colorado.\u00a0 They had flown to Florida to pick up a vehicle, new to them, and were driving home.<\/p>\n<p>The weather has warmed up again.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t looked at the high today but I believe it was around 90-F.\u00a0 We were late doing our Saturday morning run and didn&#8217;t get out until well after 9 AM.\u00a0 We roasted.\u00a0 I did well on the first half then completely wilted on the way back.\u00a0 So I may\u00a0 have gotten in 3 miles of running out of the 5 miles total distance.<\/p>\n<p>The Lowndes County ham club was operating today from a local park.\u00a0 I had the pleasure of driving over and visiting a little bit.\u00a0 They are an active group, probably the most active the club has been in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up some more insulation and materials for the transmitter shed.\u00a0 I spoke to a man about digging the trenches for me which are needed to get the power to the shed and get a fiber-optic network cable from the house to the shed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I like his estimate.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll do it myself or see about renting a trenching machine.\u00a0 As you&#8217;ll recall, I have some 4&#215;4 posts between the house and the radio tower which hold up my various feed lines and such.\u00a0 My goal is to eventually get all of that out of there.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to do everything by remote control over the network with the FM transmitter and probably my ham transmitters in the shack.\u00a0 The FM transmitter for 100% sure.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see about the ham stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Between the visit to the ham club bunch and a new QST magazine I received today, I&#8217;m actually kind of excited to get back to doing something on the ham radios.\u00a0 I need to make a burst and get this shed project done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=6024\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6024\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170914_190742581-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170914_190742581-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170914_190742581-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170914_190742581-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Thursday: 3.5 miles; 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