July 26, 2021

Hot weather this time of year has reduced our # of check-in contacts today. Also, the Mt. Mitchell, N.C. repeater N2GE has 2 EchoLinks into it and they have both been down! So contacts through EchoLink couldn’t have been made with us. I’ll share that on the TALARC net.
I received 1 contact at Forest City, N.C., who reported smelling the smoke from the forest fires out west and in Canada. Smelled it outside and inside his apartment!
We made contacts with 15 today. All were regular contacts we have talked with before (2 by 75/80 meter and 13 by N2GE repeater). I have logged 1 ‘First-Time Contact’ (1 of the 2 contacts on 75/80 meters).
That’s it for us today!

Calvin Bridges, KJ4HGT