[1000mp] Concerning my stupidity!

[Tom Horton]

Don,
  Remember  said I didn't reveal all my weekend stupidity!
That was part of it...please don't ask how that happened!
73, Tom



At 23:17 16-12-02 -0600, you wrote:
>Tom, it seems like I remember a posting some time ago dealing with this.  If
>the keyline is closed when powered up, the unit will not key no matter what
>happens to the key line after that.  Clearing the keyline and repowering the
>MP solves the problem.  I guess your PC had the PTT down?
>
>computers... can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
>
>73,
>Don, wd4egf
>
>
>
> >
> >    Since I was going to check e-mail, I needed to boot into WIN98.  Since
> > conditions were
> > about gone for me for the evening, I figured I could run my DOS logging
> > from a DOS window
> > rather than booting straight into DOS. I've done this lots of times and
> > have noticed small
> > problems occasionally, but nothing really serious.
> >   With the program running in the DOS windows, I was making a few contacts
> > and then all
> > of a sudden, the transmitter locked on...and I mean locked on! The only
>way
> > I could get out of
> > transmit was to turn the power off. When I turned the power back on, I
> > could not get the MP to key
> > at all...SSB, CW, VOX MOX...NADA! Did the master reset thing , et al. Shut
> > the logging
> > program down, etc. Tried massive amounts of things. Nothing worked!
> >   To make this shorter, suffice it to say that I gave up after a while and
> > went to bed very dissapointed!
> >
>
>
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