[CQ-Contest] K4OJ @ K4XS, Murphy is an SOB!

[k8do]

I do not know what went wrong...
My down load was likely not 6.54 in spite of it's label... I got a fresh(er)
download from Geo Monday morning and it works fb with U and M...
As to an older version sneaking in, it's possible... I keep them  corralled
in their zipped versions and no unzipped, older .exe wandering about (I
hope)...
Oh well, I contest for fun, and just shy of 400 Q on 80 meters was fun after
no contesting for a few years...
I even made a new friend who showed up on my run freq of 3550.00, Saturday
evening sending "no cq ss' with a 30 over signal...  Also sending dits, and
calling cq on top of the Q I was trying to work.. He signed a KG5 call I
won't finish... He spent about an hour trying to drive me away... For the
first 5 minutes I thought the band had changed propagation and it was one of
those things, so I moved up 600 cycles to drop him out of the filter (after
checking that I had room)... Well, he shows up seconds later zero beating
the next guy who called me...
Hmmm, this means WAR!.. So, I switched Godzilla from stun to kill, selected
the cascaded 250 cycle filters (thanks Ten Tec) and kept on 'workin em'...
He eventually went away...

Cheers  ...  Denny


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker at cs.utexas.edu>
To: "k8do" <k8do at email.msn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] K4OJ @ K4XS, Murphy is an SOB!


> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:34:59AM -0500, k8do wrote:
> >
> > Lemme see if I got this straight, Jim... You hung around your home
station
> > until it was trashed and unusable... Then you went over to a super
contest
> > station and hung around that till it was nearly trashed - in less than
one
> > day, even... And some guy named Murphy is supposed to take the fall?
Whoo
> > eeeee!
> >
> > Now, lemmee tell you about my SS.... Just fooling around because I
couldn't
> > make an all band effort, haven't done ANY contesting in nearly three
years,
> > and I'm really rusty... Thought I would do a single band, early evening,
80
> > meter fun run because I have to work every day...  I get going about 5
> > minutes after the start on a dead band.... OK, I expected that, so it's
not
> > a problem... About 2 minutes later I get my first Q and he gives me a
> > precedence of "U"....  Well, lemmee tell you that it is real fun to try
and
> > convince the supposed latest version of TRLog to take a U when it has NO
> > intentions of doing so...  After unzipping and reloading the supposed
latest
> > version three times and getting no where I drive back to the office and
> > recopy the original download off the hard drive... Drive back home and
> > reload everything and get exactly the same results of zippo, nada,
zilch...
> > So, I spend the rest of the two evenings replacing U and M with B... Now
I
> > have a log of just under 400 Q's on 80 which I won't even submit because
> > about 5% of the entries are busted!  Not only that, but every once in a
> > while I would forget and copy the U or the M and hit enter and
everything
> > would come to a dead halt... A few times I hit so many keys trying to
sort
> > it out in the midst of a hot run that I had to simply erase the entry
and go
> > to the next Q, who then questioned why he was getting the same number as
the
> > previous guy...
>
> I used TR LOG 6.54 and logged many U contacts.  In fact, I logged many U
> contacts last year, too.  Are you sure you were running the latest
version?
> If you have multiple copies on your hard drive, depending on the DOS PATH
> variable, it might be using an older version.  If you do CTRL-J and
> scroll down to VERSION, it should tell you the version number of the copy
> you are running.
>
> > Too bad we aren't closer so we could get together to cry in our beer...
> > Ain't contesting grand?
> > Anyway, as my pappy used to say, "If it were easy, then everybody would
do
> > it."
> >
> > Cheers  ...  Denny
> >
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>
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> Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"
kharker at cs.utexas.edu
> University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign:
WM5R
> Department of the Computer Sciences         President, UT Amateur Radio
Club
> Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on
Laptops
> Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA
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