I'm again the high JARTS scorer in zip code 60706 80&40 were my concentrated effort, as that's where I have the poorest antennas. Although I did work a alltime new rtty band/entity on 15 meters, C9
I concentrated on 'running' and did have a few problems. One problem with HotWheels, you loose the use of the NumPad, as any character that also serves as directionals, changes PWSDR bands or modes. So I have to remember (not easy) to use the keyboard numbers. But I had good success with my dual vfo system. Tuneing off frequency replies using vfoa and then clicking on the 'Restore' button for a fast return to proper listening frequency. But I got a surprise when 15 and 20 opened in the early morning. Either the Flex5Ka has the hottest receiver in the universe, or there was 'one way prop' as I could hear the Euro/Asian station, loud, but they couldn't hear me. That lasted till late, almost noon my time. Then they could hear me. I did have a brain fart and caused myself a lot of rfi induced problems. I got overheating messages, and a couple of lockups. this was with 35 watts drive, pushing the Quadra to 500+/- watts output. I finally remembered that I'd connected my 6 meter antenna to antenna port 3, and due to high winds in Chicago, I'd nested my tower resulting in dipoles being in close proximity to the 6 meter Halo. Apparently enough feedback was getting into the Flex5Ka. Disconnecting that coax solved the problem. But I still made over 500 qsos, with only about 16 hours of on time. I still worry about the temp reading but suspect that it's not that accurate, and that it's also rfi effected. Because it will go yellow, but almost instantly upon transmission ending, it reverts to 40-48C range. Maybe one of the readers can shed some light on a possible source of rf input that I can check out. I did upload the new firmware, kept my fingers crossed, but had the instructions on one screen and followed step for step and it worked pefectly. But I can't say as I saw any performance difference. Each week I learn something new. Looking forward to next weekends contests. ----------------------------------------------------- Don't hate yourself in the morning, sleep until noon. ----------------------------------------------------- Bill H. in Chicagoland webcams at http://76.16.160.118:8080/ weather at http://hhweather.webhop.org _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
