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Spring has arrived in Minnesota

We pulled the bikes down from the ceiling hooks today. Almost all of the snow is gone but the trails are still somewhat damp.

Ben has been asking for a couple of weeks to go on a bike ride. So late afternoon today drove over to the Glacial Lakes State Trail.  In the shady spots there was still some snow/ice that are in the last couple of days melting. We drove to a mostly clear section and rode our bikes between Spicer and New London and back. That was a short ride of about 8 miles round trip.  My bike needs a minor tweak but Ben's bike was having some issues shifting.  --Time for some spring tune-up work.

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DXCC & LOTW

About once I week I try to upload & download Logbook of the World (LOTW) changes between my local log in CQRLOG and the ARRL. It is very simple from CQRLOG and take about 60 seconds each direction. Sometimes I have more hits than others. Last week had quite a bit of DX and this week had local contacts within North America.

 

I also was curious what the DXCC chase looked like so I popped up the stats within CQRLOG.

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73 de NG0R

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Whispers on Wednesday

I made my daily QSO over my lunch break. Once that was complete I fired up WSPR and set the radio to 20m and let the computer decode and upload data.

Looking at the map you see plenty of US stations, but also a nice section of Europe and into the Pacific region as well. It is amazing to see what paths are really open that we sometimes overlook.

73 de NG0R