Wrong referrence MS0TA/P 15-Sept-2019

Activation Reports Issues/Errors
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I have just entered my logs for today and doing a “Show who chased me” showed many people have my summit as GM/SS-065. I did some digging and found that I sent a bad spot. Entirely my fault but I plead mitigating circumstances… I am old and stupid. Actually I left my SOTA glasses (an old expendable pair) in the car and only when I tried did I realise that without glasses I am completely technology blind… I can’t see a thing on the displays any more. Those spots today were sent on an old phone with a real keyboard where I could feel the keys and count the presses to get the characters. Considering I couldn’t see what I was typing I think that I did OK.

My correct summit reference was GM/CS-065 so please correct your logs if you have me on the other summit.

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Hi Andy,
I wasn’t 100% sure that you were the operator of MS0TA/P today when we had our S2S QSO but I was kind of guessing so. Now I know it for certain. It’s good that I copied your SOTA reference directly from you sent on air during our QSO and I didn’t look at SOTAwatch.
Thanks for the S2S.
73,

Guru

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Also got my callsign mixed up hi but thanks for the activation pete G6nhw

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It’s right in the paper log… wrong in the DB, I will fix that later.

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Sorted now.

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I share your pain Andy. Age (and alcohol) can be cruel. Time cures one and adds to the other.

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One of the advantages of being a navigation dinosaur, loathe to dispense with map and compass, is that the magnifier on a Silva compass can sometimes compensate for visual problems when reading a map (or phone). Come to think of it, there is a magnifier on my Swiss army knife! I found this useful some time ago after a falling icicle demolished my glasses when I was ice climbing.

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Well I do always have a compass with me and I’d forgotten it had a magnifier. So I had a look to check. It’s in the bag in a promotional branded glasses case that contains a few first-aid items such as Compeed blister plasters, sticking plaster, spare diabetic tablets, some paracetamol, my Silva compass… and a cheap pair of reading glasses. D’oh!

OK, the cheap glasses can stay in the car for emergencies and I’ll add a string to the other glasses case and attach it to the bag so they can’t be forgotten. I tried the cheap reading glasses and they do magnify but I can’t see anything else. The proper glasses are an old pair of varifocals, a bit lacking in magnification now if I had to read a lot of small print, but more than enough to get by. And drive in.

Just as well I looked… the diabetic pills had a use by date of 2012 on them! Have yourself a :beer: Brian.