How
cold
is it?
An annotated thermometer (amended for amateur radio, KL7J).
50F
Miami rotators need heat applied
Southern Californians wear jackets to install radials
Alaskan moose find browse instead of guywires
40F
Californians guywires shiver uncontrollably
Florida hams burn radio ads for heat
Minnesotans go on field day
35F
Italian coax breaks
Alaska time for tower work with no mosquitoes
Spain has shack heaters on high setting
32F
Clean Water freezes, some frost on guy wires
Arizona grass dies and reveals radials
Mississippi antenna work stops
30F
You can see your breath freezing to the tower
You plan your DX vacation to Hawaii
Montana hams put on field day jackets
25F
Californians turn on car heater instead of radio
Wisconsin hams think of finalizing antenna work
Cat tries sleeping on your radio
20F
You can hear the antenna rotator groan
Miami radio operators frozen in place
Canadians still having antenna parties
15F
You plan a warm DX vacation.
Cat insists sleeping on your radio
Dog sleeps near the amp
10F
Hawaii coax breaks
Minnesota hams finish up antenna work
Alaskans still building antennas before winter
5F
You QRO your amp to heat the shack
You look up to see why the antenna seems slow rotating
Ice detunes your yagi
0F
Mobile radio LCD will not work
Alaskans put on jacket to work on antennas
Coax freezes to the side of the house
-15F
Alaskans build a field day igloo
North Dakota hams turn heat up in shack
Miami hams cease to exist
-20F
Cat moves to sleeping on the amp
Reading the technical manual becomes informative
Antenna rotators are very slow
-25F
Too cold to operate without feet on keyed amp
You need more than a new country to get DX'ers excited
You burn the old radio ads for heat
-30F
You scrape ice off the inside of the shack windows
You think of metal fatigue as the tower groans
You learn something new reading the manual's small print
-40F
Remote antenna coax switches fail
Antenna rotators are frozen
Canadian hams note C or F doesn't matter, -40C = -40F
-50F
Congressional hot air about band reallocation freezes
Alaskans note the shack window has thick ice on the inside
Alaskan shack inside window sill freezes beer
-80F
Alaskan rotators refuse to turn
(-82 F recorded
without
wind chill)
Yukon coax breaks if moved
Alaska Vibroplex Key paddles are frozen solid