[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC CW G3SJJ

[David Gould]

Hi Chris,

You haven't changed your antivirus by any 
chance..  I have recently changed to Norton and 
every so often it "does its thing" and 
effectively locks out any other activity and does 
not respond even to keyboard commands.  McAfee 
did not seem to have this problem.

73,
Dave










At 23:10 04/07/2011, Chris G3SJJ wrote:
>As the saying goes " You cannot be serious!!
>
>There I was all fired up, total concentration. 
>116 in the first 60 minutes, 29 in the next 17 
>minutes. It's looking good. After all these years I had
>now realised contesting wasn't about operating 
>the radio, which I enjoy, or sending CW which I 
>also enjoy. It was about the *keyboard." Get that bit
>right and you are away. Guess I learnt my trade 
>in the paper log and pencil era of contesting 
>30-40 years ago when you had time to enjoy twiddling
>your knobs! This time I concentrated solely on 
>the *keyboard* not looking at the radio, or the 
>computer screen, except just to confirm I had typed in
>the correct stuff. I focussed solely on the 3 
>"Qwerty" rows plus the number row. I was using 
>ESM so first finger of right hand only hitting Enter key,
>first finger of left hand entering callsign and serial. Perfection!
>
>Armageddon arrived exactly at 2117. Function 
>keys just sent rubbish, including callsigns of 
>QSOs made much earlier. Paddle CW went to 7 wpm and then
>stopped. I unplugged the mHam keyer, switched 
>off and on the K3 and finally had to re-boot the 
>computer which then kept telling me there was an error.
>Too flippin' true!!
>
>I was screaming "&%$R&(*$E%$£^&*&" or similar. 
>Need to apologise to my neighbours!! Eventually 
>made 2 more Qs. Ended on 147 which should easily have
>been 160.
>
>Luckily my garden is 150m long and I was able to 
>calm myself down by a brisk march to the far end and back twice.
>
>OK, got rid of all that, so is the problem mHam 
>/ K1EL, or is it the Vespa computer. Should I 
>change from Vespa to W7? Should I throw the whole lot
>and get a moped? Seriously, it seems to a buffer 
>problem but is it in the computer or a function of K1EL?
>
>To top it all, we got an email to say our Hot 
>Air Balloon ride scheduled for 0700 tmw had been 
>cancelled. Creeps, I could have inflated the thing myself!!
>
>Chris G3SJJ
>
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