Radio Test and a BBQ

A long time ago, last summer, we tried to do a radio test with NVIS (Near vertical incidence skywave, or NVIS, is a skywave radio-wave propagation path that provides usable signals in the range between groundwave and conventional skywave distances—usually 30–400 miles Thank you Wikipedia...) by Stan going on the other side of the Sandia mountains and setting up an antenna and us talking on the radio. It didn't work then, which was sad. Stan has started to pick up on radio projects again so the first Saturday in May we tried again, with success!! Sterling and I headed out to meet Scott and Stan after our radio chat. They had hamburgers all ready to eat when we got there and we had a beautiful picnic on the beautiful day!

Sterling ate more than Scott by chowing down on his half of the hamburger!

Stan said Scott was a fun, cute helper with setting up his radio and antenna.

Sterling seemed to enjoy all of lunch and the oreo cookie for dessert as evidenced by his face.

Talking on the radio after lunch.

On Saturday morning, a friend had posted that she was getting rid of a handful of things in her garage including an old Mickey Mouse mitt and ball. I picked them up for Scott and he loves them.

Headed on a little walk

These two are fun pals. Scott tried to hold Sterling's hand but he wouldn't have it.

They played on this log for a good 5-10 minutes. Scott is such a good big brother helping Sterling out.

The weather was perfect and we love our little spot behind the mountains. And yay for successful radio tests!