Well it has been 4 days since my last entry. I am glad I am not on any schedule. I worked this weekend and just did not have the time/energy to write anything.

Have you ever done something that is totally futile, knowing the futility and you do it just ’cause? I am doing that now. I am calling CQ on the 12 Meter band and it is not likely I will get a reply, though you never know. I will probably switch to another band in a few but for now I am enjoying the rhythm of sending CW. If there is only dead air out there, so be it. I can always move. I guess it is a lazy sort of attitude, though I call it relaxing. No response yet but that gave me time to do my daily weather recording. I keep records of the weather every day in a composition book. There is no purpose to it, just a thing to do. Sometimes doing something for no reason can be fun.

Time to switch bands. I wasn’t even getting spotted on any of the online spotting groups. There are sites online where people can post the frequency you are working and your call sign so that other hams can look for you and try to work you. The internet has made ham radio a lot easier. It used to be you would have to tune up and down the bands looking for signals. Now you can see who is where. I dislike crowds and that is why I avoid 20 Meters as it can get crowded. I do use it occasionally for working special event stations, though. Right now I am on 17 Meters using my christmas light dipole. I will soon be replacing it with a 30 meter dipole. I now have the pullys on the tower to handle it. I will also be raising my multiband dipole to see if It works better at a higher level.

Oh, if this reads like a journal, oh well. I make no apologies. Besides, very few peoples read this. 🙂