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I got up this morning to -14F that good old Arctic air flow doing a number on the thermometer. Our heat pump was doing its best to keep up and keep the house warm. I did need to put on the space heater in the shack as it was just a bit too chilly for this old guy. I set up for the morning CWops mini-test at 9 am local time....well, I thought I did. I started my Win4icom radio control software and it would not connect to my rig, all settings were gone! I entered all the comport and settings again and got it a go and things connected. Great ready to go.... not so fast, now N1MM+ could not connect and seems all settings were gone there too. I fixed that and seems all things were a go....not so fast, I went to log a contact and was greeted with "cannot log contact no frequency is indicated" Sure enough N1MM+ was not tracking the radio frequency at all. I restarted N1MM+ and all was well and I finally was up and running about 15 minutes into the contest. Now this rarely ever happens, in fact, I can't remember the last time it did. I am willing to have a trade-off like this now and then for the excellent support these programs give my contesting adventures. 

In the end I made 70 contacts and had an enjoyable time.