South Beach - TT

Tuesday - Another beautiful day. Around 70°F for a high temperature with clear skies. I tried Winlink on both VHF and HF and it worked great. No concerns with Winlink Wednesday tomorrow. 

BTW, all this means is I send out a specific email to a handful of email addresses using the Winlink program (Windows only!) and relay the message through a RMS (Radio Mail Service) between midnight to midnight Easter time on Wednesday. They’ll send me an acknowledgment on Thursday. And I’ll show up on their map. My call sign, AL6T, near the center of the map just south of Newport. The purpose is just to use the technology often enough for it to stay familiar. 

The pool and hot tub here at the park is still closed. I don’t know why TT has trouble keeping these maintained. Lack of staff expertise, lack of funding, or just lack of desire. Kind of annoying.

Wednesday - I was able to send an Winlink email last night just after 0000 EDT on both HF and VHF. I used the HF RMS station in, I think, La Grande, OR, and the VHF station here at the Newport airport. I initially connected to the Eugene, OR, RMS on 40m but throughput was dismal. I switched to the La Grande RMS, also on 40m, and got significantly better throughput. The local VHF station was significantly faster at 1200baud. 

Just out of curiosity, I tried the Las Vegas RMS and had no problem connecting though I didn’t have anything to send or receive. 

Things don’t look too good back in TX. These are the texts I received just last night with over a foot of rain yesterday and up to 20” of rain still in the forecast. On top of that, tornado warnings! The news reported that a tornado touched down near Six Flags west of San Antonio. Not good…