Shame on you for not having a UPS. Even my FT102s are
on 800VA ups units.
Gary - WB4SQ
--- "Macie, Gordon" <GMacie@innotrac.com> wrote:
> I have been meaning to write this up since the
> contest.. I was about 500
> qso's into NAQP and the circuit breaker in the
> basement popped. Computer
> goes dead. This has happened before with little or
> no resulting problem.
> When the computer rebooted the scandisk took an
> unusually long time to cycle
> through the drive , in fact it was at 28% so long I
> thought it was stuck. I
> was about to ctrl-alt-del when it finally went to
> 29%. I knew this time was
> different. When you haven't "saved" in writelog and
> you reboot it will
> prompt you to load qso's that it has stored in the
> queue. I have seen this
> work a few times and was expecting this. When I
> didn't get that message
> prompt I knew I was in trouble.. I had just come off
> a 30 minute break and
> didn't want to take more time off but this was worse
> than that. Not only did
> I not get that choice but I didn't even have the log
> listed in the
> selections when writelog first comes up. I had lost
> the whole log not just
> the qso's since the last save. I was going to quit
> because it didn't make
> any sense to have 500 qso's and no log. Since I had
> stopped operating I
> started searching on the hard disk and found what
> was a bck of the log and
> an adi file which was pretty small in the
> /writelog/programs directory . (I
> had done a dir *.wl /s on c:\) My files are normally
> in /writelog/contest. I
> copied these files over to the /contest directory ,
> brought up writelog. It
> prompted me to load qso's in the queue and then my
> log came up 100% in
> tack.. Wow.. what a relief. It appears this queue is
> saved in an adi file.
> The only thing I can think of is this is done for
> performance reasons. So
> when you are in writelog open an explorer session
> and go to the /programs
> directory and verify you have files with the same
> name as your log.. I
> haven't double checked it. My fat table was
> scrambled. I am actually leaving
> out a couple of details to save confusion.
>
> Gordon N4LR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ku8e@bellsouth.net [mailto:ku8e@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:53 PM
> To: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [SECC] NAQP SSB KN6RO Single Op LP
>
>
> I have some recent experience with this happening
> to me too.... Murphy
> stikes again !! The computer age has put a new
> variable in the whole
> contest equation....
> 73. Jeff
>
>
> >
> > From: "Roger Hackler" <rhackler@mindspring.com>
> > Date: 2004/01/20 Tue PM 02:09:36 EST
> > To: <secc@contesting.com>
> > Subject: [SECC] NAQP SSB KN6RO Single Op LP
> >
> > North American QSO Party, SSB
> >
> > Call: KN6RO
> > Operator(s): KN6RO
> > Station: KN6RO
> >
> > Class: Single Op LP
> > QTH: Marietta, GA
> > Operating Time (hrs): 5
> >
> > Summary:
> > Band QSOs Mults
> > -------------------
> > 160: 1 1
> > 80: 36 18
> > 40: 69 33
> > 20: 57 25
> > 15: 29 14
> > 10: 34 11
> > -------------------
> > Total: 226 102 Total Score = 23,052
> >
> > Club: South East Contest Club
> >
> > Team: SECC #1
> >
> > Comments:
> >
> > If it could go wrong, it did. Murphey was alive
> and well! Everything
> works
> > fine until the contest starts, and then, BAM! Too
> depressing to go into,
> > but
> > hey, there's always next time. Full time turned
> into part time at best!
> >
> > Thanks for the Q's. Worked quite a few SECC
> folks, and loved November 8
> > Butt
> > Ugly, ANAL in MI!
> >
> > Wound up doing the entire contest on a folded
> Dipole at 50 feet.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Roger
> >
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