Well, guess tomorrow I'll be spending the afternoon making storm preps - drop the windom, button everything down out in back.  Then we hunker down and see what she's doing when she goes ashore in Morehead City...if a 2, we stay.  If she's bigger than that, we bail.  Probably would be under evac orders in that case anyway...plus if it gets here as a 2, we're under water.

Hey everyone...just wanted to give a big shout out to my friend Vlad, UA6JD, who does web design as a hobby.  Want to spruce up your page on the Zed?  Give Vlad a shout - he does it up really nice!  If you check out his page (UA6JD), you can see that he's written a few books on the subject, and they can be downloaded for free...just click the cover of the books in the left hand scroll box on his QRZ page.

To see how nice your page can be, just check out mine...www.qrz.com/db/k8si...he does this for free to all fellow hams!  You give him what you want on the page, and he codes it and sends you the files to upload....Check it out!

Hello, everybody.  Well, it surely has been a long summer, at least it seems so with the XYL convalescing all summer from her broken hip and subsequent surgery.  She is now able to get up and around, and can get out to do her running around without my assistance.  Six more weeks and she should be released to go back to work....

In the mean time, I have been anxiously awaiting the upcoming Va. Beach Hamfest.  This year, they are officially back at the beach.  Hopefully, this is a sign that the 'fest is going to be larger than in the past few years, with more vendors and other displays.  Looking forward to going, although I really don't have anything in particular on my shopping list...just want to stock up the junk box a little, and look for the ever-elusive great bargain.  For anyone interested, here is the link to the website:

http://www.vbhamfest.com/front_page

Hope to see some of you there!

73,

Jim  K8SI

Well, it has been a while since I last wrote in this blog...but not a lot has been happening.  My bride had a little accident on the first of May, took a nasty fall, and broke her femur, so I have been rather busy tending to her as she convaleces.  She's been coming a long rather well, but the healing of such a large bone is a slow process, even with all of the advanced hardware she now possesses...

I am now down to only one QSL from WAS...Alabama is my last need.  I guess I should've taken advantage of the recent ALQP, but just didn't have the time.  I only operate sparingly of late, so I didn't manage to jump into that one to nail down my last needed QSL.  I KNOW there a several stations in here from AL, can't we make a sked and help me get this one out of the way?  Please?

Have been working some nice DX lately - especially since I became more active on CW.  Managed to work E4X, and have also added several other new countries to my "worked" list, ahinch is now up to 101 worked, with 63 confirmed.  Now if those bureau cards will ever get here...thinking about trying out Global QSL...I figure for about 12 bucks for the first 100 cards, it isn't all that expensive to test out.

Also have started playing around with some RTTY just for a change of pace...worked several Carribean stations so far, plus worked JY4CI in Jordan!  So, apparently, there's some more fun to be had with one of the OLD digital modes!  Although it isn't as robust as PSK, it still works, and is gatting more entries into my log.

Well, that's about all there is to report for now.  73 from beautiful, historic Hampton, VA - America's oldest continuously English-speaking city (Estab. 1601).