Conditions were very good today on G/NP-010 mostly 599 reports, but a new experience for me on 30m was a chaser with a stuck morse key! I say stuck because it only sent dots! In addition to preventing Chasers from working me, the unidentified station was of course trashing of their own licence coditions. A quick QSY recovered the situation but when the RBN re-found me the dots retuned.
My condolences to the remaining Chasers who I had abandoned. I had however easily qualified the hill. so nothing lost for me.
Can be caused by a fault in a paddle. My stainless paddle has a wiring problem that makes it send only dashes, the dot side is open circuit. Reverse the L/R switch and it sends dots instead of dashes. Suspect the L/R switch or the PCB has an open circuit. Some pressure on the wire connecting to the pcb makes the dots work. Dry joint? Cracked pcb trace? Dunno. Intending to bypass the switch.
You are being too kind, as usual, Mr Davis. If the mad-ditter followed him through a frequency change, we know that there is a sentient (notice that I did not say “intelligent?) being in front of the rig. If my rig/keyer combo suddenly went berserk, sending a steady stream of dits, I’m pretty sure that I would notice Other threads have noted antagonism toward the use of 30 mtrs for SOTA (too contest-like?), so perhaps war has been declared?
Thanks John, you know, giving the benefit of doubt, but perhaps not justified in this case. Perhaps if we used 15 wpm on 30m it would sound less like contesting.
Haven’t heard you for a while, appreciate the calls when they happen.
Other threads have noted antagonism toward the use of 30 mtrs for SOTA (too contest-like?), so perhaps war has been declared?