[UK-CONTEST] 80M CC DATA

[Roger Cooke]

55 QSOs????   What planet was that contest on?

Actually, Mr. Murphy came round yesterday. Quite a nice chap really. He said it 
would be a good
day to disassemble all three computers on my network, give them a good spring 
clean with the 

air-line, put in the PCI card wireless network cards and reassemble.
   I thought that was reasonable advice, so I pressed on with this task, 
starting at around 0930. By
lunchtime I had done all the cleaning, so I took a lunch-break and then put them 
all back together.
I think it was at this stage that Mr. Murphy did his "thing". Having installed 
the router in the hall, I 

found the cards were not configured and I had to call the Doctor to find out 
what this mere G3
Luddite had done to offend the gods. I had to reconfigure all the IP addresses 
and so on. I did 

that, and found the signal was so weak I had to put the router back in the 
original place. OK, job
done! It was by this time around 4 p.m. 
  I thought I had better get N1MM running to make sure all was well. It wasn't! 
No PTT, no CAT,
and I then spent the next 4.5 hours trying ( in vain ) to sort it! I ended up 
having a problem with 

the virtual COM ports in the MicroHam conflicting with the virtual COM ports on 
my serial to 

USB adaptor. I could not shift the latter ports and I must have tried 
uninstalling, reinstalling deleting
ad infinitum until I was blue in the face.
  I finally managed to get PTT to work at around 2025, to find that I had wrong 
macros, parameters
and so on ( I had regressed the PC in desperation! ).  I won't bore you further, 
but suffice it to say
that the air in the shack is a nice shade of blue!  I finally found out this 
morning that my FT2000 had
reverted back to 38k for CAT control rather than 9.6 where it should be. Mr. 
Murphy is a force to
be reckoned with!

  Motto?  Make sure you DON'T do computer stuff the day of the contest and don't 
mess with the
Murphy man.   I did make 17 in the end, about 10 of which will be wrong I am 
sure.

 

Regards from Roger, G3LDI
Swardeston, Norfolk.





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From: Steve GW4BLE <steve.gw4ble at btconnect.com>
To: DAVID BUTLER <g4asr at btinternet.com>
Cc: "uk-contest at contesting.com" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, 17 February, 2011 15:37:15
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80M CC DATA

What do you mean "only 55 QSO's" !!!

"I wish"

Steve
GW4BLE



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On 17 Feb 2011, at 15:25, DAVID BUTLER <g4asr at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Why do some stations give me back my serial number again?
> 
> Why do some stations give all the details directly after I call CQ without 
> finding out who I am working?
> 
> Why do some stations call off frequency?
> 
> Why do some stations continue to chat? I worked three stations last night 
>whilst 
>
> someone was still in 'QSO' with me.  
> 
> Why do more than one station call at the same time!
> 
> What happened to the ionosphere - I blame the RSGB!
> 
> Only made 55 QSOs,  mostly PSK with 19 on RTTY.
> 
> 73 David G4ASR 
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