[OKDXA] AF5CC is in the FT5ZM log!!!

[W5LE]

Now THAT is some seriously good news...the part about AF5CC, not the 
computer!  Glad you got the 'puter back up and running and hope you log 
them on RTTY before they QRT.
73 and good luck.



On 2/6/2014 1:25 PM, Roger Simpson wrote:
> I just looked at the latest log upload from FT5ZM.  I am happy to report that John, AF5CC, is in the log with a QSO on 20M CW. CONGRATULATIONS to John!!
>
> BTW, over here I had my computer literally “burn up”. Well, there were no flames but a burning smell was coming out of it and it completely quit working. It turned out to be a attachment plug in card for a pair of serial ports. My computer, like many “modern” ones, does NOT have any COM ports so I got a PCI plugin card with dual COM ports on it. The PCI card is the card that burned up. I took the case off my computer and I could easily smell the “burnt” resistor smell. It seemed like it was coming from the tailgate area of my PC. I took my PC downstairs and put it on the kitchen table under very bright light and then I noticed a burned area on a chip on the PCI card. I unplugged the PCI card from the motherboard and the burnt smell came out at the same time – so my nose did the job of isolating the problem. My semi obsolete ICOM gear and also my Yaesu rotor both use COM ports for communicating to a computer. I think most modern ham gear talks to your computer via USB.
>
> After all of this, it took me a while to get my stuff back together. I lost about a day and a half tearing up my shack. Last night I got things back together and I was able to work FT5ZM on 30m CW.
>
> Now that I’m back together, I am going to try to see if I can work FT5ZM on any band on RTTY. I’m glad I have my computer working again because, of course, I can’t work RTTY without a computer. If it was “just” CW or SSB I could work him without my computer using a paper log and then get my computer working later.
>
> 73    Roger   K5RKS
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