[TenTec] field day from hell

[John Graves]

Well,

I know how it feels.  One of our major players for our club took a 
lightning hit at home while we were delivering the antenna stuff to our FD 
site.  He only lost most of his rigs,his vhf antenna, 2 computers, 2 AMPS 
including his Centurian, all the TV's and his water.   The strike blew out 
the street valve on the way out of town....Isn't FD great.

He has a sked on Mondays so he got his backup backup rig out of the cellar 
for the sked.  The PS dies.  The only good news is that the power supply in 
the blown 56PII still works.

John
WB1EHL

At 11:19 AM 7/7/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Great story, Mike!
>
>Sorry it was all true.
>
>On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, MIKE BRYCE wrote:
>
> > well I sure was looking forward to having a good time at this year's FD
> > event. but, ended up with the FD from HELL!
> >
> > 1. No antennas. we were on a very, very restricted lot at a camp site. so
> > only mobile antennas were allowed
> >
> > 2. Bands sucked.
> >
> > 3. Upgraded my Ten Tec Argonaut V to newest firmware the night before the
> > trip. Took the radio out, hooked up everything and whoa! NO transmit..
> > Drawing current, but nothing out the antenna. One very kaput Ten Tec
> > Argonaut V. (yes! did the master reset several times!) Radio heading 
> back to
> > Ten Tec for repair
> >
> > 4. Took out back up radio. One very new Icom 703 QRP rig. Hooked up
> > everything and WHOA! It won't can't change frequency with the main tuning
> > knob. Messed with it, talked mean to it and at last got it to tune. 
> Then the
> > internal keyer died. Then the tuning problem came back.. Radio heading back
> > to Icom for repair. ( by the way, Icom has acknowledge there is a problem
> > with the internal keyer but does not offer a fix yet)
> >
> > 5. Overall FD results?
> >
> > Killed two rig, made 7 CW contacts and one SSB contact.
> >
> > cant' wait for next year!
> >
> > Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
> > SunLight Energy Systems
> >
> > http://www.seslogic.com
> > http://www.theheathkitshop.com
> >
> >
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John Graves

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