Cruise to Panama

 

Holland America Lines

 

Pool on top deck of Zuiderdam

 

Half Moon Cay, Bahamas

 

Tender taking passengers to the beach

 

Terry and Marilyn at captain's cocktail party

 

Terry ready for ham radio forum

 

Mike KC2Q and Terry N0TW

 

N0TW operating radio station on board

Aloe fields on Aruba

 



Aruba is a desert with cactus and brush

 



Terry and Marilyn touring Aruba

 

Aruba open air tour bus

 

Curacao

 

Cheryl WS9P and Terry N0TW at 10-10 Forum

 

Marilyn WM2W making 10-10 radio contacts

Jim Fischer, piano bar entertainer, and Terry

Panama Canal Overlook

 

Gates opening at Panama Canal

 

Marilyn beside giant tree at Panama resort

 

Indigenous people of Panama posing for tourists

Banana trees in Costa Rica with blue bags helping bananas ripen

 

Marilyn touring Costa Rican Rain Forest

 

Poisonous Eye Lash Viper



 

350 year old tree in rain forest

Baby 3 toed Sloth 

 

View of Rain Forest from tram ride

Marilyn and Terry in front seat

 



 

View of Rain Forest umbrella

 

Ham radio friends

 

More radio operators on board

 



Another antenna

 

New Force 12 C19XR Beam Antenna

5 elements on 10, 3 on 15 and 3 on 20meters.

I extended the boom 5 ft to give more gain on 10m. 

 

 

 

Our antenna crew trying to figure it out.

Grady (Crane Op), Mac W4GLM, Ron WN4N, Terry N0TW 

 

 





This is what it looks like at 110 ft in the air.  Old 6el 15m beam coming down.





Watch Out

 

 Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake  4 ft.  9 rattles

 

 

 Spotted in the tall grass in rural Jefferson County, FL

 

September is the month when they are on the move looking for mates and winter dens.

DXpedition to Dominica

Terry at Dominica Island in August, 2013.

Getting antennas ready to operate ham radio annual Ten-Ten International contest.

 

Dominica is a small tropical island in the south Caribbean.

It is sparsely populated (population 70,000) and is not a tourist attraction. Terry & Gerry walked across the valley to a local pub for most of their meals. The locals walk around with machetes for protection and to harvest bananas.

              Terry J79TW and his friend Gerry J79GF rented this cottage at Sea Cliff Cottages for a week for their ham radio station and their living accommodations

This is the cottage across the road.  It had a beautiful view of the bay. Every cottage had solar heated water and solar power.

 

The beaches in Dominica are black volcanic sand.

Plenty of Orchids This Spring

17 blooming in April

Sally's yard

Sally loves her new fenced yard.

She can play with her toys

 

 

Or run a marathon

Or dig to China

Or have friends come over

 

And chase them

Or just watch the traffic

Boy, all this activity sure tires one out.

Christmas!

 

Annual Christmas walk in our woods, 2012.

Beautiful Florida weather about 66 F.

 

 Marilyn and son Marc

 

Wishing you happiness, joy and good health in 2013.

Marilyn Terry and Sally

Sally's home

 Lost, year old Border Terrier says "Please take me home."

 

 

Now she's Sally, Terry's sweetie.

 

 

 Sally loves to be outside in the woods

 

 

She's a happy girl