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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