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Re: [VHFcontesting] 2m Sprint FN55

To: "'Paul N1BUG FN55mf'" <paul@n1bug.com>, <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>, <newsvhf@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] 2m Sprint FN55
From: <k3sk@buckwalter.co>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:58:17 -0400
List-post: <mailto:vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
I sat at the rigs last night chasing some DX on HF thinking that tomorrow night 
I'll work the 2 meter sprint.     Then about 10:30 I saw a Facebook post about 
it being slow during the 2 meter sprint.    Well #**@()#&#& !!!    I had 
memorized the wrong night for the sprint.    I ended up working 1 station.  ☹ 

I'll miss 222 night as I'll be at a campaign event having BBQ.

de K3SK
K3SK --  FM07

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul N1BUG FN55mf <paul@n1bug.com> 
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 8:15 PM
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com; newsvhf@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [VHFcontesting] 2m Sprint FN55

I had 12 QSOs in 9 grids during the first hour. Conditions seemed pretty good 
and it was going well... until the output relay in the amp stopped working 
again. Stray RF floating around put the computer into chaos where mouse clicks 
resulted in completely random events. I managed to brute force shut down and 
restart the computer, fooled with the relay only to have it happen not once but 
twice more. I packed it in at that point.

When I get a day that I have nothing else to do, I will pull the amp out of the 
rack, pull the relay, disassemble it and mess with it again. 
There never seems to be any reason for it refusing to activate, but usually 
after taking it all apart and putting it back together it will work for a few 
weeks.

Hopefully I will be on 222 tomorrow night.

73,
Paul N1BUG
FN55mf


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