[CVCC] ARRL 10M Contest

[Ronnie Bolton]

Hi!

Any scores to report?

 

I heard WB4GVZ in there having a good time.  Can't believe how many calls it
took for Dave to finally hear me.  I worked CW only and just could not get
heard.  Finally when the snow let up early Saturday afternoon I found that
the snow had pulled my antenna down to around 15 ft off the ground.  So in
what was great weather to work on antennas, I stayed out getting it back up.
Finally got it and back in to warm up.  Just as I got started again, the
power started flickering on and off.  That's when I found out my UPS battery
had reached the end of its life and the computer started getting shutdown.
Corrupted my N1MM file once so spent time getting that fixed.  Almost as
soon as I got it going again and hit the button to CQ, power blipped again
an off went the computer.  I brought it back up, everything was fine but
with still more flickers happening, I decided to just shut it off an wait to
see if things would settle down.  Finally about an hour later things seemed
to be stable to I started turning things back on.  Only this time the
computer would not power up!   Spent the next hour disassembling it and
troubleshooting, finally determining the power supply had failed.  At that
point I just threw in the towel.   Power supply is under warranty, but found
it would take almost 3 weeks to get a replacement so I just ordered one from
Amazon.  Finally got things running again Saturday.  Also ordered a new UPS
which Amazon received last Tuesday in their local distribution center in
Ashland. They then gave it to the Post Office to deliver and it hasn't been
seen since.

 

Anybody else have fun?

 

73

Ronnie

WU4G