[CVCC] ARRL 10M Contest

[Ronnie Bolton]

I've heard rumors that the new rigs from Amazon will do that for you. 

Merry Christmas to all!!
Ronnie

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Ogburn [mailto:togburn at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:47 PM
To: wu4g at comcast.net
Cc: cvcc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [CVCC] ARRL 10M Contest

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? 
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Ronnie
>
> WU4G
>
>
>
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