[VHFcontesting] 432 No Joy

[nosigma at aol.com]

After working a good part of weekend to get everything dialed in, especially WSJTX working through N1MM I got my second vaccine shot Tuesday afternoon.  That night I went out to the Jeep to do some final testing only to find that my 50A Astron got smoking hot shortly after turning it on.  Unfortunate but not a show stopper.  

Flipped the big selector switch and went to the deep cycle backup batteries for power, recharge of the Jeep motor.  All is good. Next morning....well I tried to go to work but that didn't work our so well.  Needless to say I never got on the air.  After about 12hrs of sucks to be me and another 12 of sleep life is good again, really good.

Other than a blown battery cell in 2016 (smelled like black bear at first but eventually got a lot worse) this is the first time my system has let  me down.  Now its time to figure out exactly what went wrong with the rig (Jeep).  At least I have weekend plans now.
Hope you had more fun than I did on Wednesday and made many contacts.
73JohnKM4KMU