[SOC] ARE YOU KIDDING ME !

[AL7JK John]

Howdy Frank, been working on a long term amateur radio
project that is under development. A group of telecommunications
engineers that are tied into the ARRL are exploring and
documenting radio operating techniques. Was approached
last spring about taking part, I thought about it awhile and
started doing it when ever I felt like it.
 DBOPT project. Is what they are calling it. I'm actually
getting spots on the RBN during geomagnetic storms.
We reached the G2 level yesterday evening, using qrp
power levels I made one Qso during the disturbed solar
conditions.
 Gotta run for now, working 6 days a week this month
at the post office. Will get online again over this weekend.
73 and happy holidays to all.

de AL7JK, John
Flying Pig # 222
http://fpqrp.org/


On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Frank S. Tapley <cptflak at foxinternet.com>
wrote:

> It was a Flying Pigs QRP contest on 160m's. No wonder. I just trashed my
> log
> sheets cuz am only a member of the Swooping Ducks QRP-Peepers club. Crap. I
> heard a little quacking going on but no peepers. In truth, I was wrestling
> small coax cables like so many rattlesnakes trying to find out why rig
> wouldn't' tune up. After a massive two hour struggle finally found the
> culprit as the coax switch, one of them "two holers'' ( one common and two
> option of so239'ers) Almost tore the balun off the outside of the house in
> the snow and cold and dark, but didn't make it that far. But problem solved
> but no activity out, cuz had to take a lot of snake bite medicine after the
> struggle.
>
>   Incidently, the common of the coax switch, the contact peg inside was
> loose and swiveled like a kids top, and if that ain't enough to drive you
> nuts, try it sometime.
>
>   Good luck John and hope you take first place. Don't you love contests
> though? ha ha ha. ( Who ever heard of a flying pig? -- Were they sober when
> they thought up that name for a club? -- I guess anything can happen when
> SKCC turns into a speed contest with jet-blasting afterburner keys. Oh the
> changing times. Ain't it great. Gives us older poopers something to talk
> about.)
>
>   Frank SOC 1126 ( WB7NZI )
>
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