Feb 16

Yesterday I went to the Yuma Hamfest (ham radio flee market). It was nice to walk around and see the boat anchors (old tube radios with huge transformers) and electronics. I needed some wire and a new multimeter.

One of my orginal BLM couples, Rob and Pat returned to our old campsite. His Montana has two bike mounted on a rack over his front hitch. The locals that stay here all winter walked over, welcomed them back and informed them I was about a quarter of a mile down the road. They knew it was me because of my American and USMC stacked flags. It goes to show you what a community it is out here. I am told they have over 40 people of all ages come to their Monday, Wednesday and Friday Yoga and exercise session in the gravel pit.

I have not seen any burros since I came back and worse I have not seen any hummers using my feeder. I wonder what is wrong with it? Yes I put new sugar water in it. I have not even seen them fly by. Oh well.

I have a flag pole mounted on the ladder which is at the back of the trailer. I have my trailer parked in a north south orientation with the rear pointing south. This allows my solar panels on my roof to receive the most direct sun light. Well the two flags block the sun on part of the panels from sunrise until about 1300. So I now drop the flags down to roof top level during that time. I noticed about 7 amps of extra power from the panels when the flags were lowered.