Tom,
Hope to see you in October for the PAQP. Hope you work all 67 counties.
Also hope the bands improve as we get out of the summer.
Next week is Ohio QP. I've never done particularly well in this one,
but do enjoy it and try and make a few contacts.
73, Steve KW3A
On 8/16/2015 9:34 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
> Steve and Lloyd:
>
> Well, I didn't get to do the NAQP SSB contest this time around.
>
> We had the grand-kids here, and the 2 or 3 hours I had free before crashing
> at the end of the day wouldn't have made for a worthwhile effort.
>
> Now, I'll be gearing up for the Fall and winter contest season, starting
> with the Pennsylvania QSO Party Oct 10--11. Really want to get that county
> sweep this year. Missed it by two counties last year--Bedford and Indiana.
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 9:16 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Windows 10 Upgrade Addendum
>
> 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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