A Few Busy-ish Day

Saturday - An earlier start this morning. I helped cook breakfast here at the park. Just pancakes, sausage, and bacon. I haven’t had pancakes in quite a while. They were good.

The rear A/C stopped cooling in the middle of the night. This morning, I changed the compressor overload switch, and it seems to have fixed it. 

I had added some bleach to the fresh water tank on the class C yesterday to sanitize the tank. Each faucet was run to clear out the pink RV antifreeze and run the bleach/water into the lines. After 24 hours, the tank was emptied. Two fills, flush lines, and emptying the tank were done. That should eliminate the bleach/water from the water system. The tank was filled with fresh water. N.B. The specs for the RV say 40 gallons of fresh water, but the tank only holds 30 gallons. 

I switched the water heater bypass off and used the pump to fill the 6-gallon tank, and ran all the faucets to clear the air out of the lines. 

I pulled the dash out a little to see if I could find out why the aux input to the in-dash stereo wasn’t working. It turns out that a cable was unplugged. Easy fix! While working on this, I was running the roof A/C. It was nice and cool. Even when working on the dashboard. 

I turned on the propane at the tank and lit the stove, water heater, and refrigerator (on propane). All three are running, but the refrigerator will take a while to cool down. Once the water heater shuts off, I’ll check for hot, running water. 

Later - Hot water works. No propane leaks! I cleaned the refrigerator using hot water. I will let the refrigerator run tonight and see if it’s cold tomorrow morning. 

Tuesday - Soldered another PL259 connector onto the length of RG8X coax that I had cut 50' off of. It turns out that I want to have the antenna further from our shed than 50'. I just need to wait for the barrel connectors to arrive today. I'm also going to try the JPC-12 antenna to see if it performs any better on 40m. For both of my antennae, 40m is the limit.

I know that most people could care less about this but I finally got Winlink running over HF. Specifically, 40m. I switched to the JPC-12 antenna instead of the ATAS-120 as it performs better on 40m. But is more hassle. I used two different station one 207 miles away and one 376 miles. Just to make sure that it wasn’t a fluke. This is a method of sending/receiving email via radio.