What could go wrong?

[Alex Fraser]

I don't operate much at all anymore.  I do a lot of Social networking.  
Once a year though I dust off my equipment and get out there.   I have 
some hazy ideas about keeping a digital station running on the same 
machine I social network on.  What could go wrong?

On 6/28/2020 2:24 PM, RICHARD BARTH wrote:
> Glad it was fun, Alex. I haven't been to FD in years. That's never been
> something that AMRAD ever participated in as a club, It was fun when
> I went, and I'm sure it was as much fun this time. I understand there 
> were
> some rules changes this year on account of the virus situation, but 
> since I
> didn't plan on participating I didn't bother to pay much attention to 
> them.
>> On 06/28/2020 1:58 PM Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lots of "D" and "E" stations.  I think I only heard 2 "A" class.  
>> Propagation was OK, but short.  There were a couple of times on 15m 
>> where I could hear all the stations in an exchange, which is not very 
>> common.  Fading and noise were up and down.  10m was open, but noisy 
>> and I didn't hear nothing on 6 meters.  I had fun....
>>
>> On 6/27/2020 1:38 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, I've gone mobile for FD lots of times, maybe 20 or more. I got 
>>> the rig in the truck and figured out the new tunings for the 
>>> screwdriver antenna. I had everything basically presetup from last 
>>> year.  So this year at the last minute I decided to try digital.  
>>> Did you know that laptops sometimes have a special power adapter 
>>> that senses power needs? Well I did, but it took a while to solder 
>>> up the connector and it worked on my windows laptop.  However the 
>>> old USB serial adapter I had chocked on Win 10.  Easy fix right, 
>>> just install FLDIGI on one of my Linux Mint laptops.  Ha, well the 
>>> power fix didn't work on that HP laptop though it worked on the 
>>> other HP with Win 10.  Well the serial port worked I guess, but 
>>> configuring it was just too much in the truck.   Oh well I guess 
>>> I'll print up some log sheets and get going in voice mode.
>>>
>>> There are fewer clubs set up this pandemic year, I'm curious as to 
>>> how it will go...
>>>
>>>
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