[UK-CONTEST] 1st 1.8MHz - G3SJJ

[Steve Knowles]

Hi  Chris!

Definitely an evening to remember ... NOT (at least, for you)!

Disregarding your finger trouble (remember: to fail to prepare is to prepare 
to fail) I seem to remember some bitter complaints on this reflector only a 
couple of weeks ago about stations turning up and claiming long-term 
occupancy of frequencies after the new user had already made a couple of 
QSOs there.  Scenario sound familiar?  You say:  "then F2 and hit Cntrl <--  
to clobber the guy who has been trying to steal YOUR run freq WHILST YOU 
HAVE BEEN AWAY".  Still YOUR run frequency, is it then?  Good fun ... ? 
Good operating ... ???

Finally, what, exactly, is a 'Punk Op'?  Could this be a potential new 
recruit to our ranks ... someone trying contesting for the first time and 
unaware that OUR vernacular is based on what we learned 40+ years ago and 
not what may be commonplace in the non-contesting community today ... 
someone who may just have subscribed to this reflector and is interested in 
us, and in what we think and feel ...?   Oh Dear !!!

Definitely NOT an evening to remember!!

Steve
G3UFY


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris G3SJJ" <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:06 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 1st 1.8MHz - G3SJJ


> Chris SVL jogged my memory about the contest, also I received a trial copy 
> of the new N1MM format for the contest during the week from G4LMW. I never
> got round to trying it until just before the contest. It seemed to work 
> out but I had a dreadful evening! Those of a nervous disposition please 
> look
> away now!
>
> During my first contact I realised I hadn't changed the Fn messages from 
> last week's FOC Marathon. It was impossible to change during a pile-up so 
> I
> sent everything on the paddle / Winkey until after 21 minutes (35 QSOs) 
> then f*!^^//**!! the whole shebang locked up. Exactly same as I 
> experienced in
> the second hour of AFS. Nothing comes from pressing the paddle, not a 
> bl**dy dot. I think the memories (macros?) worked but the speed was slow.
> Rebooted, still no go. Switched everything off and started again, waited 
> until the pc was fully up and running etc. It worked with a hitch after 
> that.
> Seems to be a suggestion that buffers get full. Dunno. I lost a full 21 
> minutes though during the busiest time and ended with just 64 after the 
> 1st
> hour which was only around 12-16 behind the leaders so I must have caught 
> up.
>
> Don't tell G3LET but several of my QSOs in the 2nd hour were made using 
> this new fangled, well, 25 year old, system called SO2V, also known as
> LETting! Basically you wait until LET has worked you then press Cntrl --> 
> to bring in the 2nd Rx. You then have YOUR run freq in the left ear and 
> can
> find stations to call in the right ear. Dob in a quick F4 and then F2 and 
> hit Cntrl <-- to clobber the guy who has been trying to steal YOUR run 
> freq
> whilst you have been away. Good fun!
>
> I added another 70 in the 2nd hour and wasn't far away from the leaders 
> but then new activity seemed to drop off so I went ahunting for SSB 
> stations
> after witching the amp out. Mainly PAs, a few keen Gs and a number of punk 
> ops including one who after a CQ was "Listening by!!!!!!!!!" Yer what???
> Been licenced 47 years and never heard that one!! I very quickly returned 
> to the CW end but rate was virtually zero so packed in and went to bed at 
> 2330.
>
> There was a couple of really ropey sigs, a GM4 sounded as though he was 
> keying an amp relay and another had a 50Hz modulated buzz! Had a few who 
> were
> speeding up/ slowing down!! Really, really annoying and totally 
> unnecessary.
>
> Any road up, I ended with 135 CW Qs and 13 SSB QS for 804 points.
>
> Nice try HFCC but I think the new version is a dead duck.  73 G3SJJ 
> listening by!
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