Topband: 5R8FU

[George Taft]

Gentlemen

Ake, 5R8FU was QRV this weekend and worked a few lucky folks.  As we
know, condx aren't the greatest but he seems to have a respectable sig
and hears quite well.

I have asked him abt future arrangments and he replies with the
following:

> It is a bit difficult to promise skeds from my side. That is because we are
> in the rainy season, with heavy rains, winds, thunderstorms and cyclons.
> When that occurs, I crank down my tower. The 160-m antenna is a top-fed
> slooper from the top of the tower. - So what I will do, I try to be on a
> few times during the week and (if weather permitting)more actively the
> week-ends. I start calling CQ at abt 02.20 on 1.834.
> 
> To complicate my work this weekend, something went wrong with the QSK-board
> in my Ten-Tec Paragon. The antenna-relays do not switch back to the
> receiver. I have to switch the amplifier into standby and then touch the
> keyer for the antenna to come into receive. It is not a burnt relay, seems
> to be a component in the board changing the time-delay or something like
> that. To do this at the same time as logging on the computer and
> transmitting makes me, maybe, loose a few contacts.      
> 
> So George, you can tell the top-banders that I am QRV some days per week
> during my window.
> 
> 73 Ake 5R8FU

Here's hoping the t/r problem is just a sticky relay situation.  But, if
it persists, I will contact Ten Tec for help.

BTW, he was on agn last nite according to K8MFO who got a Q. And he does
seem to be rite on 1834.  

Good luck

73  George  W8UVZ