UP-SIDE-DOWN
Dear hams and others outside of the ham-radio community,
despite the arrival of Christmas time, i.e. moments of joy and winter sports, including the XMAS contest scheduled for the second of the two consecutive Christmas days, i.e. the 26th of December every year, there is a plentitude of everything, but snow. People say that everything is up-side-down.
This winter was initiated right at the point of A1 contest, aka Marconi-Memorial at the beginning of November, and since then it has been an extended version of mild Fall. We have been experiencing thermo-inversion, which is most usually accompanied by low clouds. This situation is conditional on the position of high pressure over Central Europe. And this year, it has been showing up and scattered over OK, OE, HA, SP, and DL very often. The result is that most of the time my home QTH is down under the clouds, whereas those who live up in the mountains are having a good time.
And so the only way to avoid depression and all, is to get out of the house and go to where the sun is shining.
Catch a glimpse.
Vrchlabi is somewhere down under.
All of these pictures are from the end of December. The omnipresence of snow has been broken this time.
The last one was taken in Benecko in JO70SQ and so are the following photographs.
A day before…
This last one was taken a day before the preceding one yet from a slightly different place, in JO70SP.
Depending on the WX in the upcoming days, you can expect a few more pictures of this sort from JO70UR, JO70UQ and JO70TQ.
HNY.
George