[TVARC] Florida QSO Party

[Wayne N4FP]

Hi all,


Sorry for my delay in getting this out. Monday was a tough day for me.
Feeling better today,


Things did not get off to the start Pete, K2PS,  and I hoped for.. Before I
left Ocala I thought I checked the rig out fully and headed to K2PS QTH in
The Villages.Without my permission, Microsoft installed an update that
seemed to  result in loss of audio we listen to. Also, we seemed to be
having tuning problems with the Hustler mobile antennas. We immediately had
issues with the IBM Thinkpad  notebook not holding a charge and shutting
down. Unable to fix the problem, we headed back to Ocala and switched to
the Acer notebook I had been using as a backup. Got it configured and
finally got off to a start. The rig is a Flex 6400 running 100 watts to a
mag mounted 4 foot mast  with Hustler mobile antennas for 40, 20, and 15
horizontally mounted. Things went reasonably well until Sunday afternoon
when the Acer started shutting down. We finally gave up and headed back to
K2PS QTH in The Villages.  The apparent problem is a power issue for the
notebook.


Here's our story:


N4FP: FL QSO PARTY

 Band     QSOs     Pts   Mul  Pt/Q
     7         48         192     2   4.0
    14      955       3816   44   4.0
    21        44         176     7   4.0
 Total    1047      4184   53   4.0
Score: 221,752

73,

Wayne N4FP
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