Almost Ready

Thursday - The day started out cool-ish, but it was pretty warm and muggy by the afternoon. I was able to hit the Brownsville Winlink RMS station this morning to pick up my Winlink email, al6t@winlink.org. BTW, RMS = Radio Mail Server in case you were wondering. Very little FT8 activity on 40m today. I think I picked up only a handful of new contacts. All of them under 500miles. I switched to 20m and picked up an additional seven contacts almost immediately.

I laid out most of my hand tools today to try to figure out which ones I might need this summer. Unfortunately, that amounted to most of them. I picked up another zip-top toolbag since the old knapsack I was using had developed some large tears over the years. It was one of the vendor freebies from a conference.

Bridget noticed that the skylight over the shower was dripping water into the shower, so I just picked up a couple of tubes of Dicor self-leveling sealant to re-seal the skylight. 

Friday - The first thing this morning, even before coffee, I went up on the roof of the class C to add another bead of Dicor around the shower vent. There were some possible leaks, but nothing obvious. No cracks in the existing sealant. There was another dab of old Dicor in the middle of the roof, so I just cleaned the spot and added another layer of Dicor on top of it.

I tried FT8 on 40m again today but got very few contacts. I was too lazy to adjust the antenna to 20m as it was hot and muggy all afternoon.