[CVCC] ARRL 10M Contest

[Tom Ogburn]

I stared at the boxed up transceiver and begged it to work somebody, but it completely ignored me. Dam machines.

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On Dec 18, 2017 8:26 PM, Ronnie Bolton <wu4g at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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? 
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>
>
> 73 
>
> Ronnie 
>
> WU4G 
>
>
>
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