[CQ-Contest] Some days - MIQP

[Charlie Gallo]

Gah - Some days, you're the bug

I'm not all that serious a contester, but I enjoy playing.  For some reason, MIQP has always been a favorite, although I have not been able to play the last couple of years due to family commitments

Thursday, I upgraded my PC from Vista32 to Win7, and checked everything, and all SEEMED to work

11:00am EDT, I go to fire up the setup (Going to play in SOHP instead of LP for the 1st time), and guess what - N1MM won't talk to to the Microham Router

It seems that Router REALLY didn't like being upgraded from Vista32 to Win7 - I ended up having to uninstall router, go in and manually uninstall the USB Drivers, and start from scratch, then upgrade to the latest and greatest N1MM.  By the time I was done, it was around 2:00-2:30 (I could check my log, but)

I checked 20m, didn't hear a thing

Go down to 40m, did a bit of S&P, ran for a bit (lousy run - 3 QSOs.  Did I mention that I have a popgun station?  a DX-EE at 20ft, and a JV-Evans 17-80m with the high side at 30, and the low at about 8ft, SB-230 amp)

Usually, I get reports of "Big signal" into 8 land, but today, I was getting lots of reports of "You're in the noise"

Eventually just decided (after about 1 hour) that "Today just isn't my day" and turned off the rig - just could not take listening to the noise of the bands, and fighting to make a qso




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73 de KG2V

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces
 a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,
 and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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