One mistake (apart from entering) was going S02R for a few moments and sliding up on the 2nd VFO to the fellow on 1950. I carried on CQing until my off times coincided with his off times before giving him a blast. Woops! I bluffed my through the contact since he took rather a long time in repeating everything and I nearly lost my run freq, so half way through his over I started CQing again - and still managed to work out the report! I was logging both him on 1950 and my own contact on 1947.20! I must have sounded deaf to the poor fellow who I kept asking strange question to on my own frequency, to piece together the report at the same time as working the chap on 1950, “Did you say Member or Club”? and hoping for short, to the point answer. Very funny, but I stopped that pretty quickly.
November 15th, 2009
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It’s here, the new FTdx5000MP rig, spotted as an advertisement in QST this morning in the USA.
This author will be very interested to see the specs and look at the costings. Clearly, it’ll be fitting in betwen the FT2000 and the FT9000 series, but exactly where is anyone’s guess. 4 antenna jacks and a Class A button mean it’s probably got proper diversity reception potential as well as a 200W PA. I hope there’s a 100W version since I work amplified and don’t need the extra power of a 200W radio.
What will be funny, is to find out that the advert was accidentally launched to QST and that it should have gone out at the end of Q1 next year! However it’s unlikely.
A Yahoo group has already been formed. A copy of the advert is there.
73
Callum.
November 5th, 2009
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