I don't know if Ram @vu3rdd and I can claim the first mastodon.radio international meet up but we had a good chat when we met at my hotel in Bangalore last Thursday.
I was testing my 13cm transverter on Monday and accidentally shorted the power rail. Puff of smoke and no more power. Tonight I replaced the 5V regulator, which didn't fix the problem. Then I noticed a loose wire no longer connected to the LED indicating power is on. It had actually worked like a fuse and melted the solder joint. I guess my troubleshooting could have been better and saved me 30 minutes replacing the regulator.
Luckily just a simple loose wire I hadn't noticed that got dislodged when I had to disassemble the unit to burn the bootloader.
I had to reload the bootloader of an Arduino Mega earlier and now it's not working in the same way as before. In particular the timing seems to be different, e.g. used 4000 mS for a 4 second delay before, now 40 in the same parameter gives a 4 second delay. #confused
I made 111 qso's in the CQWW CW contest at the weekend. The first time I've participated. No idea what score that gets me as cqrlog doesn't do contest scoring and it seems all the contest logging programs are either 1. stuck in the 1980's and think DOS is where it's at, 2. don't have an import feature, 3. have an import feature that doesn't work.
Radio amateur, member of CDXC, G-QRP, UKuG, BATC & LIDS (#023). Almost wholly a CW operator on HF nowadays and dabbling with 13cm.