Loading...

Oh, good evening, Joan and the Net. Joe here, Pedestrian Mobile as always, KI7Z Mike Mike. It's high time I give a report. I've been gone for several weeks or working weird shifts, so here's what I can tell you. First on the kicks, too, I'm one of those strange people that if I can't use it to communicate with people, I like to listen to WWV or WWVH and listen to the time signal and find it interesting. Sometimes there's interesting messages that they plug in between the top of the minute. You probably are familiar with that. So the KX-2 can do that. It's fantastic. But I've been busy. I've been busy. I've been working the flood times. I've been working in the Emergency Operations Center up on the Skagit River supporting the flood efforts. I've been monitoring water levels near dams to make sure that there's no seepage in the dams and I've been exploring an old army combat range to making sure that the public is safe and not trespassing through areas where there's unexploded ordnance and things like that. And I spent a week with my family down in Arizona, just got back from that, where it was 80 degrees down there and now it's chilly out here I'm trying to get acclimated again but I can tell you the most interesting thing about monitoring water levels near dams we have these wells we call piezometers and we have vibrating wire piezometers inside these wells that can measure a water level and temperature and some other things and normally the data is collected in the data logger and you come along every week or so or less and you collect the data the old fashioned way with a USB cable and a laptop or a more modern way through radio. They can signal to, several instruments can signal, send data through a radio to a hub where that can be transmitted in various ways to an office where you can look at the water level data and check to see if there's seepage at your dams. You know, things like that I'm doing to keep myself busy. And now I think I'm ready for a break. Christmas is coming up. So I want to wish you a happy Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and hope to talk to you all soon. 73 from Joe K7Z Mike Mike back in air control. Good night, Joan.