[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC CW - G3SJJ - longish

[G3SJJ]

or G3SJJ multi-tasking.  Decided to have a bit of fun after some trauma 
during the afternoon.

Next doors cat Tiga had been hit by a car, but his carers didn't arrive 
home until about 1845. I had prepared dinner and it was just about ready 
for serving (well, kind off, too much red wine vinegar in the salsa 
sauce and I chucked in the whole can of anchovies, not one of my best 
preparations.) I volunteered to take the lady to the vet and we arrived 
back at about 1950. Tiga has a badly bruised face and ego but apart from 
that OK. Hopefully a lesson to his arch enemy, Thomas, our cat!

Chatted with Yvonne over dinner, (as I said, not one of my best) and 
then decided conclude dining whilst dabbling on the radio. This is 
really where the story begins!

Been trying to sort out SO2R and/or two stations. FT1kMP in main indoor 
shack, K2/100 (soon to be K3) in summerhouse in the garden. As an 
intermediate step I had installed the K2/100 plus new Notebook computer 
and new keyboard on the kitchen table and so decided to operate from 
there. Well, that was good fun. I had setup N1MM for Enter Sends Message 
but soon realised it required just too much brain power than was 
available at this time, so reverted back to CT format, entering stuff 
with left hand and sending on keyer with right hand. Settled into a nice 
rhythm for 80 QSOs in the hour. Interesting that the noise cancelling 
headphones made a big difference to copying a DL station.

K2/100, dipole centre at 57ft,ends at about 50ft. N1MM on new Dell 
Inspiron laptops with no serial ports!

I got Yvonne to take a photograph if anyone has a website they would 
like to put it on for fun. You just can't be too serious about these 
things!!  Chris G3SJJ