[HFbeacons] Re: Thank God for a Dead Band-Or WHY you should ALWAYScheck your Beacon!
- From: ars_kb2seo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 17:37:53 +0000
Would I be rocky?
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From: Jay Jensen <ve3sws@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 17:33:49
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Subject: [HFbeacons] Re: Thank God for a Dead Band-Or WHY you should ALWAYS
check your Beacon!
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
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