Stations from Fort Meyer Florida are fading in and out, and of course, the topic most on their minds is Hurricane Katrina which made landfall earlier this evening on the East coast of Florida and is expected to exit on the West coast, somewhere near Fort Meyer. If you've never been there, it's a wonderful place to visit....especially the Thomas Edison "Winter Home". Hopefully the storm will not do much damage to this fantastic living museum of plants and tree's from around the world (not to mention his many inventions, and "lab").

I'm still reading the S9 magazines I received in the mail, and the one I read today was really interesting - It had an article which discussed 11meters part in fighting Rommel during WWII. I know, you're scratching your heads on that one, and so was I, until I finished the story.

To make a short story even shorter: Some SWL in Rhode Island were picking up German transmissions durning WWII. They weren't picked up in Conn, Mass, Maine, VT, etc. - only in Rhode Island. They were determined to Rommel in Africa. A huge listening station was set up in Rhode Island for the sole purpose of receiving the radio signals and then forwarding their information to the Allied forces on the other side of the world! 11 meters truly has one crazy history.

I'm not sure whether the DX today is Hurrican related or not - but CH38 is filled with Southeast stations, like "Poverty Flats" in North Carolina.

Random Notes:

My website e-mail is not working at the moment. Should have everything squared away by the 30th.

'Nuff Said

Woody