During the ARRL this past weekend I did a multi two with WA2C from his QTH
in EPA. We were using his ICOM756ProII's, and this was the first time I
had used this radio. I moved to 80m in the evening, found 8P1K, set the
2nd VFO to his listening frequency and proceeded to start calling
him. Well after several calls, John (WA2C) started wondering why I was not
working this station and looked over and said "Whoaaa, you can't transmit
down there!!". To which I replied, very casually, "what do you mean, look
at the VFO?". He then pointed out that while I did have the 2nd VFO set
correctly I did not have it selected as the transmit VFO - Doh! Anyway, I
corrected the situation (but repeated it very briefly once or twice during
the contest while in a sleep deprived stupor). When I returned home to NJ
Sunday night my XYL told me there was a message from 'some Ham guy' on our
answering machine 'saying something about stop transmitting before you get
fined'. So I checked the message and it was a fellow Amateur in Texas
trying to let me know that I was calling 8P1K on the wrong frequency. I
did not think to write down his call before deleting the message (I am
blaming lack of sleep, but clearly I did not have anything close to my 'A'
game going this weekend!).
So, thanks to W5?? for trying to save me from myself! I hope you are on
this reflector, or that one of your buddies is and they will remember this
message when they hear you on the local repeater on the ride home tonight
talking about the lid from 2-land that does not know how to work split!!
73 to all and see you in the next 'test!
Rick
W2RDS
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