Somewhere
out of the ether comes this sentiment:
No lids... No
Kids... No Space Cadets...
No
Phonetic Phonatics...
absolutely no School Bus Riders...
Only
Class A operators need apply
W9OY
Truckin... like the doo dah man
What a long strange trip its been
My E-HAM profile
Self Supporting 80M vertical
Multi-band High
Performance Vertical
SDR1000
Station
My QTH viewed from Space (a.k.a
Paradise)
K9ES Self Supporting 80M 4 Square
Flex 5000 CW Debouncer
Zoom out to see
my position with respect to the Atlantic Ocean
I'm about 2.5 miles
inland from
the intercoastal waterway and about 1 mile off I-95. I live
on a
hill about 30 ft above sea level. Most everyone around me is
about 25ft above sea level except for those poor jokers father down the
hill. I figure when the global warming comes I'll be beach
front.
When the hurricane comes I'll be history. I've
managed to
adapt to the altitude, though I still get headaches. If you
zoom
out to the 10 mi level you can see the Kennedy Space Center off to the
Southeast. The 2 little white spots close to the shore with
the
roads leading to them are shuttle launch pads 39A (north) and 39B (south), The
roads
from the pads lead back to the VAB. That "road to nowhere" by
the
VAB heading off back toward my QTH is the shuttle landing strip.
When the rockets go off, the sound knocks me out of bed.
It
takes 63 seconds from ignition to get to my house. When the
Shuttle lands, it makes a pass over my house on the final approach and
I get double sonic booms which also knock me out of bed. When
the
rockets light off at night, they are so bright, all the roosters in the
neighborhood start to crow and all the dogs start to bark. If
you
center the map over the space center and zoom back in you can count the
hatch marks on the Shuttle landing strip. A little farther
south
is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and it has several launch sites as
well. I love living in Paradise. The only downside
is I'm
west of K4ESE and W4AG, but that puts them east of Eden, so I'm not
complaining.
The Genteel KB4BR meets the Gas
Passer
Orlando 2006