Once a cleaning lady pushed a book against a microphone switch on a two meter rig, and it keyed up the 5 state Mt. Beacon, NY 146.97 repeater for nearly 20 hours before it was located with direction finding gear. What was amazing was that it didn't set the room on fire. The door to the shack was closed to the room as was its window, and when we went upstairs with the very red-faced ham and opened the door, the temp was easily 120 degrees inside. The 2 meter transmitter was a converted tube type mobile phone that ran nearly 100 watts to a ceramic transmitting tube. His friends found out about it because some of them heard us on an alternate wide coverage repeater chasing it down and showed up as we were leaving. Probably never lived it down.
A friend in the Raleigh area with a good signal on 80 meters in the Sweepstakes, left the rig to get a snack, but forgot to turn off his auto-CQ which auto resumed. While in the kitchen he decided to take a nap. Lot of people answered his CQ but got no reply. He claims that he just sat back down to the rig a half hour later and started working people. It took a bunch of us in the local club to "convince" him that he had really done it. I'm still not sure he really believed us. Stuff happens. 73, Guy. On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Carl Clawson <carlclaw...@verizon.net>wrote: > A fairly common occurrence. > > Those of us with cats or small children get in the habit of clicking off > the > VOX any time we walk away from the radio. But it's not a bad idea for > everyone. > > Kids are grown up now, still got the cat. > > 73 -- Carl WS7L > > > Assuming I don't get written up for transmitting > > 20 or 30 minutes of 25 wpm dots at 14.001 MHz (hi). > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
