Well, I was all ready to help out in the 10-10 contest this weekend. I knew the conditions probably weren't going to be all that great, so I resolved to at least every hour or so tune around and see if anyone was calling CQ.
So, I sit down at the radio and no sooner had I adjusted my antenna tuner for 10 meters, my cell phone text message chime goes off. And goes off...and off and off and offoffoffoffoff. That can mean only one thing. A server, probably an important one, has just unceremoniously eaten itself at the University. Yep, it was one of my database servers saying, "Uh, Michael...you know that system drive that holds important stuff like the OS?....it seems to be...well...uh, gone. It was here a moment ago. Thought you should know. BTW, I'm about to cras--" So that was my weekend. Nevertheless, I managed amid the chaos to make at least one contact with a station in Ohio, so I was able to contribute something to the effort. :) I probably would have made more contacts, but I have a bad habit in phone contests. I am so fearful of messing up sometimes, that I will wait until I hear the running station give their full exchange before I even try calling them. With conditions as they were, some stations were only audible (to me) for maybe 60-90 seconds. If I had just called when I first heard the CQ, I possibly would have gotten them, but as I waited, they faded out before I could get them. 73, -- /*/-=[Michael / KT5MR]-=/*/
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