No rest...

We're dragging today. One of the leaders from Hannah's group called last evening to let us know that she had gotten a particularly bad headache, probably the result of dehydration, but was doing well after having gotten some sleep in a cooler location. Laurie talked with her a while and she sounded fine, though somewhat annoyed with all the fuss.

It's extremely hot and muggy in Biloxi right now (not that this is unusual), to the point where the leader was saying that he's sweat clear through his leather work boots. Ugh!

They called back shortly after 11 to let us know two of the women leaders were taking her to he hospital: the team medic didn't like the way she looked, and was concerned about the dehydration continuing. The women called back about 20 minutes later when they arrived, and the hospital called some time after that to let us know that we would be charged for a co-payment. Fine, no problem. They gave Hannah IV fluids and sent them back sometime around three. They're tired, for the obvious reasons; back home, we never really got back to sleep all that well, half expecting yet another call. With her mouthguard, Laurie can make a sound that mimics the phone's ringer quite realistically. Not quite being asleep tends to make snore, which keeps Laurie from sleeping soundly, so she makes more fake phone sounds. Synergy at its worst. So when our friendly neighborhood skunk wandered through, we were well aware of it.

Another leader called this morning to fill us in, and she's doing okay, but will be spending more time sleeping, at least this morning. They start back for home tomorrow... others have been having problems with the heat, too, so it sounds like everyone will be glad to get back on the air conditioned bus.

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I finally gave up on sleep about an hour early, spending a little time on the radio kit. Installed the parts for the single-sideband transmit option onto the front panel board, so all that's left for this assembly is the mechanical work of preparing and installing the front bezel plate and the tuning encoder. Huzzah! I'll leave a picture to close the week.