This Heat is Hot

[W1RKW]

It's hot out. My AC crapped out Monday night.  Waiting for a motor-run capacitor for the compressor.  

Last night I went out to by a $10 window fan at CVS.  Figured I could cool down the bedroom during the evening hours.  Got the fan in and running.  The room started to cool down.  Hopped into bed and 5 minutes later the power goes out, no more fan.

Was thinking of using something from the junk box but don't have anything like an AC capacitor especially something in the 40uf 440VAC range.  I'd like to kick this thing off and cool down the house until the replacement arrives but I don't want to kill the compressor either horsing around with it.  Oh what joy it is to sit in front of the computer sweating like a pig and swilling Budweiser.

[Glenn K2KL]

Just be glad you don't live in Arizona... it got up to 115F last week  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

It's hot out. My AC crapped out Monday night.  Waiting for a motor-run capacitor for the compressor.  

Last night I went out to by a $10 window fan at CVS.  Figured I could cool down the bedroom during the evening hours.  Got the fan in and running.  The room started to cool down.  Hopped into bed and 5 minutes later the power goes out, no more fan.

Was thinking of using something from the junk box but don't have anything like an AC capacitor especially something in the 40uf 440VAC range.  I'd like to kick this thing off and cool down the house until the replacement arrives but I don't want to kill the compressor either horsing around with it.  Oh what joy it is to sit in front of the computer sweating like a pig and swilling Budweiser.

[Pete, WA2CWA]

NEEDLES, CA:109°F Feels Like 106°F[/size][/b]
At 12:55 PM, 7/27

[Glenn K2KL]

Yes, but it's a "dry heat"  :oops:  :oops:

NEEDLES, CA:109°F Feels Like 106°F[/size][/b]
At 12:55 PM, 7/27

[John Holotko]

85 degrees at 2:00am around here last night with an extremely hot humid wind blowing in. It's 96-97 degrees here today with extreme humidity.  Still waiting for those "cooling thunderstorms" to arrive but they never seem to show up.  SAupposed to be much nicer the rest of the week into the weekend so I guess somethings heding our way.  Otherwise this heat is brutal.

[Jim, W5JO]

Hot weater approaching 100 degrees with 40-50% humidity is present here in OK from about the beginning of July (the start of the monsoon season in the Rockies), until about the end of August of first of Sept.

Thank goodness for air conditioning.  I am keeping my air conditioner at 74 degrees day and night and thus far bills have been around 175.00 per month.  That even includes my boatanchors.

[Pete, WA2CWA]

Yes, but it's a "dry heat"

NEEDLES, CA:109°F Feels Like 106°F[/size][/b]
At 12:55 PM, 7/27

Wet or dry, that's hot.

[W1UJR]

Its not hot, its liquid air.
I'm swimming in moisture when I go outside.

I'm staying at my business, the 1860s Cape is just too darn hot.

Air conditioned office, air conditioned hamshack, it’s a good thing!
68 degrees and counting while I relax on the leather sofa.
Take out dinner just across the street, only thing missing is a  YL.
It’s nice to be self-employed! :badgrin:

[wa1knx]

notice I'm not back home in AZ!!, ;;; whew. I called friends, one said
some spots are in the 120's back home!

I can make the case, snow birding can save you bux.  I'd be shelling
out $200 a month in az for the summer. no AC needed here in VT,
no real heat needed in AZ for the winter - plane flights paid for!!!
but it sure gets soggy humid hot here.

as to the heat, ur best to keep your ac temp up. ie 78 degrees instead
of 68. its the heat change that can mess you up.  I worked in an
office that kept it at 68. getting out at 5, it made me sick to my
stomach facing the 98 degrees!  then moved to another office, where
the ac wasn't as good, we were at 80-85.  getting out of work was
ok, I could deal with the heat.

[W2VW]

NEEDLES, CA:109°F Feels Like 106°F[/size][/b]
At 12:55 PM, 7/27

"Never Been To Spain"

(As recorded by Three Dog Night)
HOYT AXTON

Well I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it, umm

Well I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well I headed out for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it
Must be real it
Feels so good
Woah it feels so good

Well I never been to heaven
But I've been to Oklahoma
Woah they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter

Woah I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it, woah

Well I never been to heaven
But I've been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter.

[WV Hoopie]

Mid 90's in the Willamette Valley yesterday and today. Took a little hike up in the cascades and got to about 6800 feet. Still a little snow in patches and the cool air coming down from the snow covered Little Brother mountain was refreshing. Did about 11 miles on the Obsidian trail, dogs were barking when I got back to the car at 6 PM.

Too sore to stop for diner and a 807 on the way home. Today its kill the pain with ibuprofen and stay in out of the heat, couldn't carry a pack if a gun were pointed at my head.

Hoopie,

[Herb K2VH]

We had thunderboomers last night with high winds.  Took down the north end of my antenna.  Got it back up to 10 feet today.  Waiting for my ant. tree climbing guy to put it back up at 60 feet where it belongs.  Meantime I'm limiting my power to the Globe Champ at 125 watts.

Right now I'm singing the "TimTron Mobile Song"--OH, I'M SOOOO PISS WEAK.....   The good news is that it has cooled down to 62 degrees at this moment.  Sposed to be cool and sunny tomorrow.  

Enjoy the relief from the heat everybody.  YEAH RIGHT-- DRY HEAT  :evil:

K2 Very Hot

[W1UJR]

Three Biggest Lies in the World

1) I'm from the goverment and I'm here to help.

2) Of course I'll respect you in the morning.

3) But its a dry heat.

[W1RKW]

Who said stick your head in an oven if it's a dry heat?  Was it George Carlin?

[w3jn]

It's not so much the heat as it is the stupidity.

[K1JJ]

We had thunderboomers last night with high
winds.  Took down the north end of my antenna.  Got it back up
to 10 feet today.  Waiting for my ant. tree climbing guy to put it
back up at 60 feet where it belongs.  

Herb,

If I lived closer, I'd bring over my bow and arrow and get that
antenna up HIGHER than any Apeman could get it climbing.  
I'd put it in the crotch of your choice with steel cable, and a
pulley/weight for wind flex. All from the ground, OM.

I'll bet a local William Tell up there could do it and spare the
Apeman.

T

[WA1GFZ]

Herb,
My 22 year old 160 meter ant snapped during last week's storm.
Might have to wait for fall when the leaves come down and P.I. dies.
Trees are taller now. north side could get close to 100 feet with a good shot.  Better to be pw than swl

[Paul, K2ORC]

As long as we're commiserating -- the
north leg of my 75m dipole was
snapped off at the feedpoint during
a derecho on June 6.  The leaves
are so thick in our woods I can't
really see enough to thread an arrow
through the treetops.  I may have to
wait until autumn.  The coax
fed 160m ant is okay as is
the E/W ladderline fed dipole for
40m - up.

[Herb K2VH]

To my good friend, William Tell Cathey (K1JJ)

Tom,  thanks so much for your kind offer.  I wish you were nearer too to work your crotch magic on my tree.  Well, we'll get it up somehow.  Meantime, Frank's right--it's better to be pw than swl.  Got on this morning and worked the Tron in Maine as well as Dave, W9AD in Illinois with the Globe Champ.  Both heard me very well.  So maybe not quite so pw after all.

Tom, if you were closer, I'd have Gioacchino Rossini write you an overture     Thanks again, and to everybody for the support.

K2 Very Handy (but not handy enough to use a bow and arrow)

[W1RKW]

It's not so much the heat as it is the stupidity.

 Actually I think there's a corelation between temp and intelligence.  I've always thought that temperature was inversely proportional to IQ. Look at the roads and highways during the summer.  As I type this I feel that I'm getting smarter.  The temp is coming down.  Just installed the new motor run cap on the compressor and the house inside temp is dropping. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Herb K2VH]

W1RKW wrote:

"I've always thought that temperature was inversely proportional to IQ."  

That's for sure.  If you want proof, just listen to "The Magnolia Net" some morning between 0630 and 0800 on 3878.

[W2VW]

Herb,

If I lived closer, I'd bring over my bow and arrow and get that
antenna up HIGHER than any Apeman could get it climbing.  
I'd put it in the crotch of your choice with steel cable, and a
pulley/weight for wind flex. All from the ground, OM.

I'll bet a local William Tell up there could do it and spare the
Apeman.

T

The ApeMan has alumunum pipes in the trees.