I took Friday off from work to put my antennas back up -- a multi-band
dipole and an R-7 vertical. (They had been down for two months to
accommodate my landlord's tree-pruning/felling work.) It wasn't enough;
by midnight, all I had up was the dipole. And I still had to repair two
of the R-7's traps. Got it fixed but not up by contest time Saturday,
so I started with the dipole. Figured the start was worth not missing
and the R-7 could go up during a break.
I had worked almost two hours when I got a report my TS-440 was FM'ing.
Received signals had been sounding slushy, so I hauled my half-broken
TS-180 in from the garage. (It's been on the garage shelf for years.
I knew my neighbors' cats had been getting in there, but I never dreamed
they'd want to mark my radio as part of their territory!) But the '180
only put out 20 W and didn't seem to be able to key the amp. Rats.
Conditions/propagation: Started out S&P. I guess many others did, too,
'cuz I doubled my rate by calling CQ on 15m. Not used to being able to
do that barefoot on a 40m dipole. Heard HH2PK on 10m, but the '180 TX
doesn't work on that band. 73, and *maybe* CU on phone. --John/K2MM
b q m
20 28 19
15 48 23
10 2 1
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78 * 43 = 3354 (2 hrs)
>From wa6bxh@thetech.com (Sandy Lynch) Wed Aug 11 01:03:50 1993
From: wa6bxh@thetech.com (Sandy Lynch) (Sandy Lynch)
Subject: Marathon S/W for Mac
Message-ID: <4oc48B1w165w@thetech.com>
I've been using the Marathon contest logging software for the Macintosh.
Please - no anti-Mac jokes, eh? 8-)
Anyway, I'm curious to know if anyone else is using this excellent piece
of software by Kevin/N0IOS? Also, any thoughts on modifying the prefix
and/or country lists? I think Kevin is open to adding other contests to
the existing ones. I was happy to have him get the All Asian Contest
ready for last year's contest.
73 de Sandy - WA6BXH/7J1ABV
Packet: WA6BXH @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA
Internet: wa6bxh@thetech.com
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