Life is hard. Last week, my tower mtd 222 preamp was killed while I was
trying to operate on Tuesday during a thunderstorm. It snuck up fast. I
think rain static killed the front end. I was gettig lots of static
before it had started raining!! In just a few minutes things gotreally
bad and I noted a severe drop in signal strength when the preamp was
hit. I vacated the pace ASAP. In the meantime, I caught a bad cold and
am not able to talk much and feel miserable. I will try to be on for a
few contacts, but my receiving ability has been wrecked when I lost the
preamp. It looks like maybe some CW and FT8 might be possible if the
storm didn't kill the computer.
I have not been able to contact WD5AGO (who made the cavity preamp)
Maybe he changed e mail accounts, but I have not heard back from him
about how to go about repairing the preamp. Tommy, I am looking for you!!
Don't forget, tonight is 222 Activity night and the excitement starts
around 7 PM and continues until after about 9 PM local time or later as
you go Westward. That is 23:00 UT start time. Get on 222.100 and look
for any and all contacts. The ON4KST Chat page works well for setting
up skeds. Use 144/432 Region 2 Chat.
73
Dave aka "Sparkie" K1WHS
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