[UK-CONTEST] NFD

[Robin Thompson]

"FT1000 RX front end off frequency" ???  that's different - did you mean the
18dB attenuator was "in" Ken ?

Robin
G3TKF
Brizzle (but working Sunday!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken Eastty
> Sent: 11 June 2008 14:15
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] NFD
> 
> I can't understand what Brizzle are moaning about when for all their
> problems they were already ahead of us by 2036. We have no excuses,
> everything worked apart from having to use a manual ATU when the auto unit
> failed during setting up and even when our main genny started playing up
we
> only lost a few minutes getting the back-up on line. 'We' were caught out
by
> the FT1K, I couldn't understand why signals were so weak on 40m until
> eventually someone realised that the RX front end was off frequency,
> apologies to those who didn't get a reply, back to a basic (fool proof)
> radio in future?
> However as this was our first NFD entry for many years and the first time
on
> NFD for two of our operators you had all better watch out next year!
> 
> 73...
> 
> Ken G3LVP
> (G5BK/P Cheltenham ARA)
> 
> 
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