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@k8vsy I did #FieldDay25 with my club. We were 4A, with a GOTA station. We finished with over 2,100 QSOs, most of them on CW. I was the captain of the GOTA station, and we had quite a few kids and newly-licensed make their first #HF contacts. I only made 66 contacts myself, but it was a great Field Day.

Wow, the #HF bands had been very quiet most of the morning (US Central time), but over the lunch hour 20m seems to have picked way up, at least within the US. Just a few stations decoded from Central and South America, no Europe. The polar attenuation persists. Interesting stuff.

When temporarily operating abroad, some years back on #HF it used to be common to spell "/" as a "stroke". On several occasions I operated on #hamradio #satellites and used this form too but it seemed to me to cause some confusion. I sometimes hear on air this symbol being pronounced as a "slash" (and, in one memorable instance, the operator did not pronounce it at all, simply gave the country prefix followed by their call sign). How do you spell the "/" when operating abroad?

This analysis provides evidence linking cannabis-use to adverse cardiovascular events, including heart attack (MI), ischemic stroke, heart failure (HF), & mortality. Notably, cannabis use appears to pose a substantial & independent risk for these outcomes, even in a population without traditional cardiovascular risk factors. #cannabis #marijuana #heartattack #stroke #heartfailure #mi #hf #medicine #health jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.1016/j.ja