Got all set up for AO-50's 1500 Z pass over Arizona this morning. Made several contacts with 6, 7, 8, and 9 area call signs. Went in the house, pulled my recorder out of my pocket (I use an ear mike under my headphone) and found that I forgot to turn it on. They were all good contacts but, unfortunately, none will make into LoTW. I'll have to write myself a note and stick it on the radio to remind me to turn it on. Hopefully we'll meet again, my personal life gets in the way of my radio life so I am not always available for the passes and right now I only have FM so I'm limited there also.
73,
Ed, N7EC
I feel your pain! I don't know how many times I've plugged the audio output of my rig into the headphone jack of the sound card. At least the software that I currently use to record has a level and spectral output that's live so I can immediately know if I'm getting audio or not. At my age I still have it all together but sometimes I forget where I put it.
Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE EL09uf http://www.eaglecreekobservatory.org I was going to take over the world but then I saw something shiny!
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Ed Cunningham Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 9:37 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Senior moment
Got all set up for AO-50's 1500 Z pass over Arizona this morning. Made several contacts with 6, 7, 8, and 9 area call signs. Went in the house, pulled my recorder out of my pocket (I use an ear mike under my headphone) and found that I forgot to turn it on. They were all good contacts but, unfortunately, none will make into LoTW. I'll have to write myself a note and stick it on the radio to remind me to turn it on. Hopefully we'll meet again, my personal life gets in the way of my radio life so I am not always available for the passes and right now I only have FM so I'm limited there also.
73,
Ed, N7EC
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On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 16:10:02 -0600, "Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE" kevin@eaglecreekobservatory.org wrote:
At my age I still have it all together but sometimes I forget where I put it.
Eh. I'm 45 and recently I set up for a SO-50 pass with my Arrow antenna, HTs on and ready, recorder ready, okay let's do this... and then I couldn't hear a single thing coming down from the satellite. Nothing. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE? DID SO-50 FINALLY GIVE UP THE GHOST? OH MY G- oh wait. 3/4 of the way through the pass I realized I had the uplink and downlink HTs backwards.
Ugh.
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Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE