Lloyd,
Tnx for posting this. I don't know when I will do the Windows 10
upgrade, but the driver thing isn't something I had considered.
I use a USB to 4 port serial adapter that I got online about 5 years
ago from who knows where. I do logging and/or rig control for a couple
of radios, as well as FSK RTTY keying with this adapter. Hate to
have to buy another one if there is a driver problem.
As for the contest: I worked 115 with score of 5,600. I heard you on
75 working a station just after I did. I went up the band a bit and
called CQ in case you were moving up, but we didn't cross paths.
Before going to bed, I went to 160 for a while. Not a lot of activity,
but I worked a number of stations despite low power and poor band.
Most in the 500-600 mile range, but did work as far as Illinois.
73, Steve KW3A
On 8/16/2015 7:44 PM, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
> I am not reverting the Dell desktop to Windows 7, but I might not run
> logging software on it.
> I have been using several USB-to-serial adapters made by Gigaware, bought at
> my local Radio Shack while that existed. There is new driver software for
> those adapters on my Windows 7 computer, but it fails to install. This is
> probably a good thing. According to a posting on IFamilySoftware.com,
> newsletter 37, Prolific (the company that makes some of the chipsets that
> are used) found that their chips were being cloned in China and selling for
> a lower price. All USB devices carry a vendor ID, as well as their class and
> other capability information. These knock-off chips identified themselves as
> Prolific. Prolific found a way to identify genuine chips and created a
> driver that disables USB-to-serial adapters that are not manufactured by
> them. I am not totally sure about this, but this seems to be the driver that
> I am getting with Windows 10, and it also affected people under Windows 8.1.
> So the adapters that worked for me on the desktop while it ran Windows 7
> fail to start when run under Windows 10. Apparently, if I want to use this
> computer for logging and other functions under Windows 10 I need to buy two
> or more of these cables. I know that FTDI has the best reputation for these,
> but they have had some cloning episodes, too.
> These wires in our wireless shacks!
> Other than the serial port fiasco, Windows 10 is working pretty well for me.
> Manually entering the frequencies into N1MM+, I made 115 QSOs and over 7,000
> points in the NA QSO Party yesterday. Narrowly missed working KW3A again.
> 73,
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lloyd Rasmussen
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 7:02 AM
> To: For blind ham radio operators
> Subject: Re: Windows 10 Upgrade
>
> I have now upgraded the desktop computer on which I run N1MM+ and Office
> 2013 to Windows 10 from 7. There were times when I had no feedback as to
> what was happening. As you might expect, I put an AM radio in front of the
> computer and found a frequency where I could hear hard drive and other
> activity so I would know when things had really quieted down. Narrator
> worked well, and Window-Eyes 9.2 came up, too. But I tried to shut down (it
> was midnight) and the system had more work to do. I had to leave it running
> overnight, and it came up talking this morning. I haven't tested things very
> much yet (that's a weekend project). The layout is quite different from
> Windows 7, but eventually I will find things. I don't know whether File
> Explorer will be slow on this system or not.
> On a 24 MBPS FiOs fiber-optic connection, the download took most of an hour,
> and the upgrade itself took more than an hour. This desktop has 8 GB of RAM
> and a Core i-5 series processor, and was bought early this year,
> manufactured by Dell last year.
> If you have multiple computers, take your time and install it first on a
> less essential computer. It probably makes sense to keep some equipment
> running on Windows 7 instead of doing this upgrade. We'll see what happens
> with OneDrive, Cortana, Windows Phone 10, etc.
> 73,
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Tinney
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 12:21 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows 10 upgrade versus clean install
>
> I have upgraded two computers from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I had no
> sighted assistance in upgrading and have not had any problem in doing
> the upgrades. Why are so many people afraid of something new? I have
> noticed one annoyance in Windows 10. File Explorer seems slow to
> respond. That is not a deal braker, I'm sure that problem will be fixed
> soon.
>
> Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
>
> On 8/5/2015 11:43 PM, Harvey Heagy wrote:
>> It's not that I'm crazy about Windows 8 because I'm not. I would have
>> much
>> preferred 7 if I could have gotten it. But since I don't like to take
>> chances with my operating system or virus protection, I plan to at least
>> wait until the bugs are worked out of it which there are certain to be.
>> Windows 8 should have never been released in my opinion.
>> Harvey
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Dave Allen
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 9:41 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows 10 upgrade versus clean install
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Yes, that's the biggest reason to just hold off on going to W10 for now.
>> Your free upgrade promise will last up to a year after release, so no need
>> to get in a hurry about it. Perhaps the hardware issues will be resolved
>> by
>> the end of that year, or perhaps they won't, but taking the risk now is a
>> certain recipe for disaster. In short, if you want to keep doing
>> everything
>> you now can, just sit tite, and keep doing it.
>>
>> 73,
>> Dave
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