N4LA Update

Many of you have probably noticed the lack of blog entries for November.

So I thought I would give a brief update.

On Nov 6th my mother passed away unexpectedly.

So for the past few weeks, life has not been easy...

especially with the holiday season upon us,

Needless to say .....

My radio time and computer/blog time 

have been very limited over the past few weeks.

Thanks to all the support of all my ham friends 

around the world during this tough time.

And a special thanks goes out locally to my good friends

Jack / W4TJE  & Abe / K4MK

and also my church family

at

" Farmer Old Fashioned Baptist"

Over the past weekend I finally resumed my radio activities

and found it to be a nice distraction to the past few weeks

As many of you know the CQWW  CW contest was in 

full force over the weekend.

I worked a handful of stations of stations worth mentioning.

40 meters

VU2PAI

4S7NE

80 meters

TC2T

C5A

KH2L

JA1YPA

JA3YBK

160 meters

C5A

JA3YBK

JA1YPA

* This was the first JA's of the season for me on Top Band*

As many of you know I also enjoy the SOTA program

"Summits On The Air"

On Sundays I typically relax and play radio if I get the chance.

This past Sunday I decided to keep and eye on 

http://www.qrpspots.com/

and

sotawatch.org

for SOTA activations.

I was not disappointed, as I put several new summits in the log

VA2IEI / Dennis on VE2/QC-002 ... 20 meter SSB

KD0BIK / Jerry on W0/FR-107 ... 17 meter SSB

NE1SJ on W1/CR-007 ... 17 Meter CW

KD9KC / Mike on W5/PO-007 ... 20 meter SSB

WT5RZ / Ron on W5/PO-007 ... 17 meter CW

Thanks Guys for your summit activation efforts... 

as we all know

 some of these summits are not easy to get to !!

For more info on SOTA 

go to 

http://www.sota.org.uk/

Thanks again for all the condolences

73 de N4LA