At Randy - AA6WJ's :
217 x 41
I was going to use the same excuses as Danny, K7SS concerning my
inability to properly manage the band changes from the far west,
but he didn't bring the Alpha, I did. Besides, he's far wester than I
am.
But boy - when the rate meter on 40 started heading south and I made the
move to 80 to hear nothing but multi-variate white gaussian noise, I
knew I was in trouble. (Shoulda listened first before turning all the
knobs and dials, I guess.)
His Pro 67B requires a tuner on 40 and his loop needs it on 80. I think
I'm gunna hafta measure his 40M Z at the antenna and build a switchable
series coaxial transformer to eliminate this tuner business.
High RF in the shack caused the computer to randomly pick a function key
buffer to send when I was going through the f5-f4-f2 sequence. Once
when Tree called me, I hit f5 and sent him "N6TRB4" with out realizing
it immediately. Da machine didn't want to work him, I guess.
Also had a problem where the computer would suddenly send a string of
dits (without provocation, I might add) and I would have to hit the VOX
control on the 765 to quickly terminate this garbage.
Found an interesting quirk on NA when I was changing the partial dup
window (Alt f8?) while trying to key in something else. Dumped me out
of the program and loaded the cw buffers with caca. Re-boot.
Lets see - 217/4 = 54.25. Like Sammy Hagar said - " I can't drive 55".
Insult to injury department.
Got home at about 9pm PST and answered the phone. It was Steve, KN6OX,
a fellow River City Contester who is vacationing in Maui. He rode along
with Danny, K7SS and hung while Danny did his thing. -low power, huh?
Thanks for all the Q's. There would have been more with a competent
operator.
Eric, NV6O
edwoods@pacbell.com
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