[amsat-bb] FT-847 CAT

Greg D ko6th.greg at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 03:31:50 UTC 2016


Hey, no problem.  As a software engineer I always blame the hardware
first.  Just a reflex...  :)

Good luck on Field Day,

Greg  KO6TH   (will be W6EK 5-AB SV on field day)


Jeff Breitner wrote:
>
>
>> Grounding?
>>
>> Just a wild thought.  What else could be different?
>>
>> Greg   KO6TH
>>
>
> *ding*
>
> This afternoon I hooked up the null modem cable to the desktop, hit
> one end with cold spray and nothing happened.  Hit the other end and
> *poof*, it quit working.
>
> Not content, I went and hit the ends with a heat gun while hooked up
> to the Mac.  You'll never guess what happened...just before I made a
> new one.
>
> Thanks for pulling me off the primrose path.  After years of working
> in software, of course it was a dev's fault, right?
>
> Jeff



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