03-07-2021, 08:39 PM
A lost weekend for me. My tower stuck toward Europe with a frozen rotor that I won't be able to get to until the snow melts and the WX warms and I can make sure it is the rotor and not the tower. I think the brake does not disengage because if I engage it and release it the light stays lit. If I turn the power off to the box the light goes out. I even check it with a different box a DCU-1 and it acts the same. SOMETIMES it moves a few degrees and maybe when I warms up I can swing it west for the nets, (or SW but I don't want to go fully south or it will stick there). I just worked the Europeans and a few SA stations of the back of the SteppIR. With a bad rotor I was half hearted into the contest this weekend, so I only found 60 countries and did 160 QSOs and stopped. Guess I like even numbers.
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 28800
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06451
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
GRID-LOCATOR: FN31OM
EMAIL:
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9002.0
Band QSOs Pts Cty
14 154 462 54
21 6 18 6
Total 160 480 60
Score 28,800
1 Mult - 2.7 Q's
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 28800
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06451
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
GRID-LOCATOR: FN31OM
EMAIL:
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9002.0
Band QSOs Pts Cty
14 154 462 54
21 6 18 6
Total 160 480 60
Score 28,800
1 Mult - 2.7 Q's