Hey now that's a funny story! And the Subject line sounds like an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle. 73 Jay - VE3SWS > Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:15:20 -0400 > From: ars_kb2seo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: 10mprop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [HFbeacons] Thank God for a Dead Band-Or WHY you should ALWAYS check > your Beacon! > > 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 > ____________________ > > The HFbeacons mailing list information: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/hfbeacons