{"id":556,"date":"2023-05-07T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=556"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T23:43:01","slug":"florida-qso-party-chaos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2023\/05\/07\/florida-qso-party-chaos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida QSO Party chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>67. That\u2019s the number of counties in Florida. And it\u2019s 4171 kilometers from Victoria to Tampa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So was it easy to reach Florida on 75 watts SSB? Somewhat. And who knows which layer (D, E, F1, F2) my HF radiation took. The 20-meter band was noisy and somewhat useless. 10-meters wasn\u2019t much better. However, 15 meters was the sweet band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ventured forth to my favorite DX site \u2013 the Oak Bay marina \u2013 on Saturday after breakfast with ham friends. I set up my vertical antenna and my radio. I turned on my laptop with N1MM and connected my CAT cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was an issue, however. I had no cursor and no keyboard. Chaos! Try as I might, nothing worked. I smelled a rat, a software rat, and Microsoft rat. I left the marina and headed back to my apartment and started some problem solving. It was a Windows 10 update that had caused the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I ever make any contacts? Happily, yes. I returned to the marina on Sunday and notched eight counties, 7 on 15-meters and 1 on 10-meters. Not a great number. But it was fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, I didn\u2019t tell you about my travails with the QSO party setting on N1MM. I won\u2019t bother. It\u2019s a boring story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn Lindsey VA7HC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>67. That\u2019s the number of counties in Florida. And it\u2019s 4171 kilometers from Victoria to Tampa. So was it easy to reach Florida on 75 watts SSB? Somewhat. And who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-qsoparty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}