I hate when that happens!
I was prepared for that scenario in the 10 GHz contest, since I was going
to be 360 miles from home. I took along every spare part I could think
of, plus soldering iron and solder and any other tools I might need.
Fortunately Murphy didn't strike me in that one this year.
One year in one of the ARRL VHF QSO Parties I drove 45 miles to the QTH I
used for QRP-Portable operation with 10 bands stuffed into my Toyota
Corolla. I forgot a connector for the antenna for 2304 and up. I didn't
feel like driving all the way back for that one connector, so I just left
the transverters for those bands in the car. :-(
Live and learn.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Steve Gilmore wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> You know, can you imagine a rover cooking along trying to get 4 grids
> visited in four (4) hours and having a transverter start to oscillate about
> qso number 2. Then imagine a vehicle already looking ridiculious with a 15
> foot yagi and a rotator on the top of it sitting in a 7/11 with a guy buried
> inside a transverter cover off and a soldering iorn.
>
> Is that insane or what?
>
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