[VHFcontesting] 2m Sprint FN55

[k3sk at buckwalter.co]

I sat at the rigs last night chasing some DX on HF thinking that tomorrow night I'll work the 2 meter sprint.     Then about 10:30 I saw a Facebook post about it being slow during the 2 meter sprint.    Well #**@()#&#& !!!    I had memorized the wrong night for the sprint.    I ended up working 1 station.  ☹ 

I'll miss 222 night as I'll be at a campaign event having BBQ.

de K3SK
K3SK --  FM07

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul N1BUG FN55mf <paul at n1bug.com> 
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 8:15 PM
To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com; newsvhf at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [VHFcontesting] 2m Sprint FN55

I had 12 QSOs in 9 grids during the first hour. Conditions seemed pretty good and it was going well... until the output relay in the amp stopped working again. Stray RF floating around put the computer into chaos where mouse clicks resulted in completely random events. I managed to brute force shut down and restart the computer, fooled with the relay only to have it happen not once but twice more. I packed it in at that point.

When I get a day that I have nothing else to do, I will pull the amp out of the rack, pull the relay, disassemble it and mess with it again. 
There never seems to be any reason for it refusing to activate, but usually after taking it all apart and putting it back together it will work for a few weeks.

Hopefully I will be on 222 tomorrow night.

73,
Paul N1BUG
FN55mf