Hi all,
Well, folks, here's how far I've gotten with getting on hf, I have not!!!
First, I still can't use the handiham remote base. The software won't respond.
2nd. Echo link is, well, who knows how I can get that to work.
I couldn't get them my license on Thursday night, because my number wasn't in the stupid phone book, my number. So, I couldn't validate via telephone.
I tryed to fax it, and the cover page, and they didn't get the cover page!
So, then, tonight, I tryed to upload the file, and the .....s you fill in the blanks, did not and would not, accept, a text file, which I scanned.  They only want a .jpg, a .png, or a .tif, file.
So, now I have to get my friend, Rick, wo8m, to fax the cover page and the license, all over, again!
3rd. There is another hf remote base, which is ran by kb8zgl, and he said I can use it with skype, and I don't have to use echo link.
However, it's so damn complicated to use. He says Rick, can help me, since he can see it.
That's really great for a blind person!
The key commands are so damn confusing!
4th. The mfj 949E antenna tuner. I got the tuner, but we can't get on the balcony to do anything with the antenna we have up and try to tune it, since they just coated the balcony with varnish, or whatever the he.. they use for outside coating, till Monday, and even after we can do that Monday night, folks, I just went to the mfj enterprizes web site, and downloaded the manual for the 949E, and it's a pdf. So, I thought, ok, I'll just convert this to a word file, or, to a text file.
Not so fast! My computer froze up 2 times when I tryed to open it in Adobe, and I couldn't convert it to anything to read, and like I said, I couldn't open the damn thing in the pdf format!
So, I have no idea what I'm doing, after I disable the autotuner on the 570!
I know the antenna plugs into the tuner, but I have to plug the jumper cable which goes from the tuner to the 570, and I thought I'd be able to read the manual to tell me how to do it! I use to have the kenwood ts120, and loved that rig, and there was no auto tuner. So, I just connected the jumper cable from the antenna tuner to the antenna plug on the back of the 120.
5th. No ride for field day! I got a call from a guy who said he'd get transportation for me to field day, so, I called him back and left a message, and no call back. I just wonder if he'll do it or not, since the hams in this town are all talk and no action!
I'm not gonna chase him, I don't play the chase game. I don't know if any of you do, but I won't play that game. When someone says they'll call ya back, they need to call ya back.
I swear something doesn't want me on hf ever again!
And don't mention 2 meters, that's not working either!
So, I wonder if I'm the only one not on the air today?
73,
Trippy, ac8s, who just doesn't think anything will ever change