At 09:46 PM 12/16/02 +0000, Tom Horton wrote:
>CONCLUSION:
>
> I have no exact explanation for what happened, unless, using the program
>under a DOS window told the computer/radio something it didn't want to
>heard/see.
>I just didn't take the troubleshooting the next step farther. In essence,
>I just gave up!
>
>EPILOG:
>
> The radio is back to working and I did operate all day Sunday. So, the
> next time
>you have a wierd problem, just remember that most of the times,
>strange/weird problems
>are just that and they are normally fixable with a bit of
>stick-to-it-ive-ness!
>And no, I am not going to open up a repair shop specializing in
>weird/strange pproblems.
I think Tom's being too hard on himself. We all did troubleshooting in our
Globe Scouts and such, but it's so complex inside our modern radios that
it's very hard to deal with, and very easy to assume that it's some obscure
relay or IC down in the bowels of the thing.
I doubt that it's a Win98 DOS window thing. I've had my share of those,
but usually in the category of lousy CW or slow radio frequency
readout. They have always gone away when I opened the task manager and
shut off all the Windows background tasks except for explorer and
systray. I'm thinking Tom and I both run TRLog, so if I've misremembered
and he's running TR, just ignore me.
73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
>From Yuri Onipko" <va3uz@rac.ca Tue Dec 17 00:23:22 2002
From: Yuri Onipko" <va3uz@rac.ca (Yuri Onipko)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] making someone feel special
References: <002a01c2a512$d4c57560$647ef3d8@n7df>
Message-ID: <008601c2a562$8d5aa060$2202a8c0@sympatico.ca>
Thing like that happened to me this past weekend. I was operating in the 10m
contest from VE3NE's shack. He has a lot of QSL cards on the walls so by the
end of the Contest I learned almost all of them... :-))
... When EW1ABF unswered my CQ I already new the spot where to locate his
card. I came back to him with regular "59 Ontario" and after I got his
exchange I told him (in Russian !) his name, exact address and how he looks
(there is a photo on the card...) :-)) Imagine poor guy's reaction... :-)))
He only managed to pull out his "Thank You" (in Russian).
...hope he's doing alright now! :-)
73 Yuri VE3DZ
P.S. However another guy in the Contest insisited that I should have "DZZ"
in my call since his master.dat showed him only VE3DZZ call. :-))
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry N7DF" <n7df@zianet.com>
To: "Contest Reflector" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:50 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] making someone feel special
Last year, in the 10 meter contest I had the master.dat running while I was
running JAs.
It really helped a lot on breaking calls from the pileups when all I got was
a number and a couple of letters.
One memorable QSO was when the JA only gave two letters of his suffix and
the master.dat returned only one call so I came back to him with his full
call.
He returned with"how did you know my call?" and I told him, "everyone knows
the best contester in Japan"
I hope his head didn't explode but I expect he made sure all his friends
heard the story.
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