[HFbeacons] Thank God for a Dead Band-Or WHY you should ALWAYS check your Beacon!
- From: "Drew McCarsky,KB2SEO" <ars_kb2seo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 10mprop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:15:20 -0400
Well the title should tell ya what happened here...Or a Good hint!
Last night, Had some fun with a friend on 10 meters, Messing around with
the Moxon on my end and he with a Simple Horizontal Dipole, we had some
fun Chatting and seeing what the Bare minimum we could work each other.
When we were done, I spun the dial down to 28.238, Set the rig on CW and
Hit the Pico Keyer...Beeping away, Pointing at Europe, I left for the
house.
I turned on my 10 meter HT- YES I have one, Its a lot of fun. Its also
set to listen for any troubles on the Beacon Freq...I hear the beacon-
But its splatter...Is my Rit turned...NO- OMG! I scroll through the band
and it was at 28.465,6,7,8...What the HECK? In my bathrobe, Running for
the station, Grass turning brown behind my wake of Swear words...A
speaker fell over , onto the mic's Freq up button. I guess a Mouse or
Gopher rat came looking for a errant Worther's I am always eating! I was
relieved to hear dead air as I turned the VFO back down...AND LOCKED THE
DIAL!
So- the moral of the story? Weird things CAN happen to the best of us ,
Or the worse. Keep a eye on your transmitters!
Now to get my pulse rate under 500 !....It's 12:14 now- I think I can
be forgiven for a Beer or two on Sunday!
Drewski-KB2SEO
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