RE: [digitalradio] Re: CT1QK ALE-400 QSO

[John Bradley]

Was no on the air tonight but was monitoring. Copied K2MO and CT1QK.

Try a connect with me since I usually leave it on to copy any mail

John
VE5MU

-Original Message-
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:22 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: CT1QK ALE-400 QSO

Rui,

You certainly picked up on how to work ALE-400 quickly - glad you called. 
Copied all your text just fine.

Thanks Qso om...

Tony -K2MO


- Original Message - 
From: "CT1QK" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you


> So sorry but I do not know how to work with this mode
> I have copy this
>
> K2MOCQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
> CQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
> CQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
> CQ K2MO>CT1QK  CQ K2MO>CT1QK   [FAE CQ]
> Hello om!
> OP TONY QTH NY NY
> btu
> de K2MO KN
>
> HOW COPY ?
> [End of connection with K2MO]CQ K2MO>CT1QK   [FAE CQ]
> 265
> New Rich Text Document.rtf
> {\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
> {\*\generator Msftedit
> 5.41.21.2508;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\f0\fs20 CT1QK DE K2MO\par
> \par
> TNX CONNECT OM -- GOOD SIGNAL HERE IN NY. \par
> \par
> DE K2MO TONY\par
> }
>
> de K2MO
>
> CT1QK de K2MO
>
> Hello...
>
> Name is Tony Tony and the Qth is Long Island, New York. Grid square
> FN30jv FN30jv.
> tu
>
> CT1QK de K2MO KN
>
>
>
> How copy om?
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>
> CT1QK de K2MO KN
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RE: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you

[D.G.]

--- On Thu, 6/11/09, r_lwesterfield  wrote:


From: r_lwesterfield 
Subject: RE: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 9:03 PM










Hello Fred,
 
    I did not know it but I had accidently stepped on an Olivia QSO already in 
progress just below .074.  I thought that I should quit at that point but I did 
hear some FAE activity a few minutes later.  I should have responded but I had 
already gotten sidetracked getting a computer ready for Field Day later this 
month.
 
    Oh well . . . there is always tomorrow night.  Now I have to run and pick 
up my son at soccer practice . . . 
 
Rick – KH2DF/W5  
 




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On Behalf Of Fred VE3FAL
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:17 PM
To: digitalradio@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you
 








Saw you and had nice copy, even replied….
 
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[digitalradio] Re: CT1QK ALE-400 QSO

[Tony]

Rui,

You certainly picked up on how to work ALE-400 quickly - glad you called. 
Copied all your text just fine.

Thanks Qso om...

Tony -K2MO


- Original Message - 
From: "CT1QK" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you


> So sorry but I do not know how to work with this mode
> I have copy this
>
> K2MOCQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
> CQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
> CQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
> CQ K2MO>CT1QK  CQ K2MO>CT1QK   [FAE CQ]
> Hello om!
> OP TONY QTH NY NY
> btu
> de K2MO KN
>
> HOW COPY ?
> [End of connection with K2MO]CQ K2MO>CT1QK   [FAE CQ]
> 265
> New Rich Text Document.rtf
> {\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
> {\*\generator Msftedit
> 5.41.21.2508;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\f0\fs20 CT1QK DE K2MO\par
> \par
> TNX CONNECT OM -- GOOD SIGNAL HERE IN NY. \par
> \par
> DE K2MO TONY\par
> }
>
> de K2MO
>
> CT1QK de K2MO
>
> Hello...
>
> Name is Tony Tony and the Qth is Long Island, New York. Grid square
> FN30jv FN30jv.
> tu
>
> CT1QK de K2MO KN
>
>
>
> How copy om?
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Re: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you

[CT1QK]

So sorry but I do not know how to work with this mode
I have copy this

K2MOCQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
CQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
CQ DE K2MO   [FAE CQ]
CQ K2MO>CT1QK  CQ K2MO>CT1QK   [FAE CQ]
Hello om!
OP TONY QTH NY NY
btu
 de K2MO KN

HOW COPY ?
[End of connection with K2MO]CQ K2MO>CT1QK   [FAE CQ]
 265
New Rich Text Document.rtf
{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\*\generator Msftedit 
5.41.21.2508;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\f0\fs20 CT1QK DE K2MO\par
\par
TNX CONNECT OM -- GOOD SIGNAL HERE IN NY. \par
\par
DE K2MO TONY\par
}

 de K2MO

CT1QK de K2MO

Hello...

Name is Tony Tony and the Qth is Long Island, New York. Grid square 
FN30jv FN30jv.
tu

CT1QK de K2MO KN



How copy om?


btu

CT1QK de K2MO KN








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RE: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you

[r_lwesterfield]

Hello Fred,

 

I did not know it but I had accidently stepped on an Olivia QSO already
in progress just below .074.  I thought that I should quit at that point but
I did hear some FAE activity a few minutes later.  I should have responded
but I had already gotten sidetracked getting a computer ready for Field Day
later this month.

 

Oh well . . . there is always tomorrow night.  Now I have to run and
pick up my son at soccer practice . . . 

 

Rick - KH2DF/W5  

 

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Behalf Of Fred VE3FAL
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:17 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you

 






Saw you and had nice copy, even replied..

 

Fred

VE3FAL

 


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[digitalradio] KH2DF I saw you

[Fred VE3FAL]

Saw you and had nice copy, even replied..

 

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RE: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

[Fred VE3FAL]

I am listening although I seem to have some summer static, but summer seems
still so far away..

 

Fred

VE3FAL

 

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Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:26 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

 






All, 

 

I'll be QRV ALE-400 ARQ chat mode this evening. 

 

QRG 14074.0 USB +/- QRM

 

Skeds welcome

 

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RE: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening

[r_lwesterfield]

Yes, thank you very much.

 

Rick – KH2DF/W5

 

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From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:21 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening

 






Thank you Patrick!

- Original Message - 
From: "Patrick Lindecker" mailto:f6cte%40free.fr> >
To: mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening

Hello Tony and Richard,

In ALE the callsigns are limited to 0 à 9, ?, @, A à Z

I will add "/" for ARQ FAE only in the next version.

73
Patrick

- Original Message - 
From: Tony
To: digitalradio@  yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening

Richard,

Copy your sigs fine here.

CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5

Multipsk has an issue with your call. Won't allow me to enter the /W5 when 
connecting with ALE-400. I'll ask Patrick about that.

Tony -K2MO

[digitalradio] ALE-400 Skeds

[Tony]

All, 

I'll be QRV ALE-400 ARQ chat mode this evening. 

QRG 14074.0 USB +/- QRM

Skeds welcome

Tony -K2MO

[digitalradio] Re: backup

[jhaynesatalumni]

--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Simon \(HB9DRV\)"  wrote:
>
> FWIW with the exception of laptops I always run RAID 1 (mirror). I've had 
> disks die but never lost data as a result in far too many years of coding.

Note that RAID is protection against a disk failure, but not against
some other kinds of mishaps.  If you, or your computer, should
accidentally delete or scribble on some files it will corrupt the
RAID copies equally.  So it's good to have backup copies that are safe
from that kind of destruction.

Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening

[Tony]

Thank you Patrick!


- Original Message - 
From: "Patrick Lindecker" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening


Hello Tony and Richard,

In ALE the callsigns are limited to  0 à 9, ?, @, A à Z

I will add "/" for ARQ FAE only in the next version.

73
Patrick




  - Original Message - 
  From: Tony
  To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening






  Richard,

  Copy your sigs fine here.

  CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5

  Multipsk has an issue with your call. Won't allow me to enter the /W5 when 
connecting with ALE-400. I'll ask Patrick about that.

  Tony -K2MO

Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening

[Patrick Lindecker]

Hello Tony and Richard,

In ALE the callsigns are limited to  0 à 9, ?, @, A à Z

I will add "/" for ARQ FAE only in the next version.

73
Patrick




  - Original Message - 
  From: Tony 
  To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [digitalradio] QRV ALE-400 this evening






  Richard, 

  Copy your sigs fine here. 

  CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5 CQ KH2DF/W5

  Multipsk has an issue with your call. Won't allow me to enter the /W5 when 
connecting with ALE-400. I'll ask Patrick about that. 

  Tony -K2MO



  

Re: [digitalradio] backup

[Tim N9PUZ]

Ken Hucksoll wrote:
>...I have only done backup's never have had to
> restore...

So, how do you know it works?

Tim, N9PUZ

Re: [digitalradio] backup

[Simon (HB9DRV)]

FWIW with the exception of laptops I always run RAID 1 (mirror). I've had 
disks die but never lost data as a result in far too many years of coding.

http://www.bestpricecomputers.co.uk/glossary/raid-1.htm

Some laptops support RAID 1 but none of mine...

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

- Original Message - 
From: "Ken Hucksoll" 
>
> I have used GHOST excellent program but due to my financially embarrassed 
> situation I now use Macrium Reflect for backupI have used it to back 
> up system to partion of drive.and to CD'sit permits you to make a 
> boot CD in Linux if your system goes goofy on you...I have only done 
> backup's never have had to restore.make sure you d/load the free 
> one...good luck Ken N5LYJ/5
> 

[digitalradio] backup

[Ken Hucksoll]

I have used GHOST excellent program but due to my financially embarrassed 
situation I now use Macrium Reflect for backupI have used it to back up 
system to partion of drive.and to CD'sit permits you to make a boot CD 
in Linux if your system goes goofy on you...I have only done backup's never 
have had to restore.make sure you d/load the free one...good luck Ken 
N5LYJ/5





  

Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Simon (HB9DRV)]

- Original Message - 
From: "Steinar Aanesland" 


> Rick, I think Windoze is some sort of  "Lunix" clone

In the history of Windows there is some Linux - about 30 years ago or so. 
It's a long and involved story, not suited for this mailing list.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com 

Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Toby Burnett]

Lol Very funny 

Sorry I have a friend that is a Linux fanatic and always call's MS Windows 
just Windoze. 
Then again when you see the speed of his Linux box you understand why. 

I have dabbled a bit in Linux over the years (on the same hard disk and had
problems trying to update, lost MBR) etc etc.  Main reason I don't use it
all the time on this PC (my office one as the OH now uses the vista laptop)
is A:  I have yet to be able to set up my wireless network  (I have a
specialist radio broadband as I live in a remote area and I need this to
work or I would have to cable through and this is just not viable) and also
for the software I use for work, including MS Office, I used to use open
office before this job LOL.  Anyway, on a side note.  I use FLdigi and have
flarq for windows etc. I love FLdigi.  ANother thing.  What would be the
chances of getting a wireless connection between the vista laptop and a
Linux machine.. I can't even get file sharing to work at the moment between
XP / Vista.  ICS is about as far as I have got.   

Toby MM0TOB  
---Original Message---
 
From: Steinar Aanesland
Date: 11/06/2009 17:22:31
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio
 



Rick, I think Windoze is some sort of "Lunix" clone

73 de LA5VNA Steinar

Rick W wrote:
> I use Linux and MS Windows XP and Vista here in the shack with a KVM
> switch. I have never used Windoze, but I see some hams claim they know
> about it.



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Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Steinar Aanesland]

Rick, I think Windoze is some sort of  "Lunix" clone

73 de LA5VNA Steinar




Rick W wrote:
> I use Linux and MS Windows XP and Vista here in the shack with a KVM
> switch. I have never used Windoze, but I see some hams claim they know
> about it.

[digitalradio] Re: Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Dave Bernstein]

If you use an image backup product like Norton Ghost or StorageCraft 
ShadowProtect, you can construct such a CD or DVD yourself. You can make a 
snapshot with all of your applications installed and configured, allowing a 
rapid recovery in the event of a catastrophic failures.

I started with Ghost, creating image backups weekly and incrementals nightly, 
but found it to be fragile and user hostile. ShadowProtect isn't perfect, but 
its much better. I have fully recovered systems on several occasions in less 
than an hour.

While its true that rebuilding Windows from scratch eliminates some of the 
accumulated detritus on your hard drive and in the Windows Registry, having to 
then re-install and configure all of your applications makes this an expensive 
proposition. I find that periodically running the freeware Advanced SystemCare 
keeps things reasonably well-pruned; some DXLab users have reported a 
noticeable performance improvement after running it. Its available via



I wouldn't run any application that mucks about in the Windows Registry without 
having a backup, though creating a System Restore Point beforehand is probably 
sufficient.

I have no relationship with any of the companies mentioned above. 

 73,

Dave, AA6YQ

--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien"  wrote:
>
> I had a PC problem last night and Windows would not load.  I was able to get 
> on the Internet and active in digital modes within a few short minutes by 
> booting a CD that contained Fldigi via Linux.  This simple way of getting on 
> the air when a HD crashes of Windows fails made me wonder if there is a 
> Windows CD somewhere that we can boot and it also contains a browser, digital 
> mode software, etc?
> 
> 
> The CD that Dave and Skip made available for FL-digi sure helped me.
> 
> Andy K3UK
>

Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Toby Burnett]

 Thanks Tim, All good Info. 

I have a 200GB hard disk on this machine, but most of that is music and
videos, also it is divided, so I guess I could make an image of the main
partition. 
I may well give it a go. 
Thanks for the advise and info guys. 

Toby. 
 
---Original Message---
 
From: Tim N9PUZ
Date: 11/06/2009 16:11:13
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio
 



Toby Burnett wrote:
> 
> What size do these image programs make the image? Do they really work 
> in the event of total system failure? It is a rather old PC here also 
> and I think doing anything like this is going to cripple it. Sorry to 
> high jack the thread but seems a good topic for all of us.

The image is compressed by default but essentially holds all of the 
information on the original disk drive plus some info it needs about 
the backup, etc. You can opt for no compression (faster) or more 
compression (saves space, slower) but I have only used the default 
compression option.

Earlier this week at work I made an image of a 40GB drive that had 
about 30GB used. The image size on the file server is 17GB. It took 
around an hour to create the image.

In general the disk images are good for restoring broken or infected 
hard drives. When you change motherboards or go to an entire new 
system the image you've saved is not set up to work with different 
motherboard chip sets, network interfaces, video, etc. I have not 
tried it but would be surprised if it worked.

Tim, N9PUZ



 <>

Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Tim N9PUZ]

Toby Burnett wrote:
> 
> What size do these image programs make the image?  Do they really work 
> in the event of total system failure?  It is a rather old PC here also 
> and I think doing anything like this is going to cripple it.  Sorry to 
> high jack the thread but seems a good topic for all of us.

The image is compressed by default but essentially holds all of the 
information on the original disk drive plus some info it needs about 
the backup, etc. You can opt for no compression (faster) or more 
compression (saves space, slower) but I have only used the default 
compression option.

Earlier this week at work I made an image of a 40GB drive that had 
about 30GB used. The image size on the file server is 17GB. It took 
around an hour to create the image.

In general the disk images are good for restoring broken or infected 
hard drives. When you change motherboards or go to an entire new 
system the image you've saved is not set up to work with different 
motherboard chip sets, network interfaces, video, etc. I have not 
tried it but would be surprised if it worked.

Tim, N9PUZ

Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Rick W]

I use Linux and MS Windows XP and Vista here in the shack with a KVM 
switch. I have never used Windoze, but I see some hams claim they know 
about it.

Linux can be fairly easy to reload, but that is only if it supports your 
equipment. For many years this was not possible for my computers/monitor 
until Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04, which I consider to be an OK OS. Maybe not as 
good as Vista, which has been the overall best OS that I have used over 
a 20+ year period, but rating on OS depends upon your requirements and 
what you value.

Linux has some features that I favor over MS (probably more secure, much 
lighter and responsive on older machines, etc.). But realistically, what 
is most importantly for most of us is that MS OS's natively run the 
programs that most of us want to use and Linux can not do that as well, 
sometimes not at all. The one program I mainly run on the Linux computer 
is the PSKmail_server which can only run on Linux. If I did not use 
that, then it would be difficult to justify having multiple OS's since 
it greatly complicates things. (Other than the hobby aspect, which I 
feel is legitimate, even if not that practical).

Since an increasing number of programs are cross platform and run well 
on either OS, there is less of a compelling reason to move to Linux. One 
exception might be the netbooks. No matter what MS claims, even with 
Windows 7, lightweight Linux variants will run much better on those low 
powered computers.  If fact I have read that MS would like to 
characterize netbooks as low powered computers rather than netbooks 
because they know their OS's can not be tailored as well for that 
environment.

I have reloaded Vista several times due to playing around with Linux and 
damaging the MBR (and not knowing much about fixing it, HI), and it is 
much easier and surprisingly fast compared with previous MS reloads. And 
by the way, I always reload any MS product after a BSOD. Of course, I 
have actually never seen a BSOD for years and years even though some 
claim they have this happen regularly, HI.

If the seller of the PC did not include full back ups of the OS, my 
solution to your concern about reloading is to be sure to make a backup 
disk with the necessary drivers. I agree that it can be very difficult 
to get the right drivers, but once you do, I have found future reloads 
are relatively simple.

Good luck with your computing.

73,

Rick, KV9U






Toby Burnett wrote:
>
>
> I also would be interested as to booting windoze from a memory stick 
> like a live cd of Linux.
>  
> It takes so long for me to re install everything should I have a 
> system wide crash.  Just to get back back onto win XP pro I have to 
> load XP home first and then all of XP Pro.  With that and all the 
> driver disks etc and whatever else you loose in the process it can 
> take a good day at least just to get back to a blank windoze system 
> with everything working.  My Laptop which I just got (Vista)  gave the 
> option to make a recovery disk set (4 DVD's!) which took the best 
> part of 4 - 5 hours to create. That's a lot of data even for a memory 
> stick and I dread the day I have to use them. 
>  
>
>   
>   
>
>
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RE: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Toby Burnett]

Don't get me wrong, I agree that it can be quite refreshing to have a
default factory system.  But 
For example I was doing a re-install on Xmas eve last year and that was a
pain. 
An imaging program to back up to a flash drive or external hard disk like
the other chap said. 
Looks like the way to go. At least then you could back it up once all of
your software was in, logs and radio software, bookmarks, tools, e-mail
addresses etc and THEN back up.  I should try something like that now as my
Ahem system appears to be working fine at the moment. 

What size do these image programs make the image?  Do they really work in
the event of total system failure?  It is a rather old PC here also and I
think doing anything like this is going to cripple it.  Sorry to high jack
the thread but seems a good topic for all of us. 

Toby 
 
---Original Message---
 
From: Rud Merriam
Date: 11/06/2009 15:31:56
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio
 



Actually, I find recovering from a crash with a bare install to be
beneficial. It gets rid of all the junk that builds up over a year or so. 
 
One thing that helps is I copy all install CDs to a hard drive. (Actually
they are in a version control system - Subversion - if you know what one of
those is.) With them on a hard drive the install goes faster and I don't
have to get everything installed all at once. I just add things back as I
need them. 
 
 - 73 - 
Rud Merriam K5RUD
ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX 
http://TheHamNetwork.net 
-Original Message-
From: Toby Burnett [mailto:ruff...@hebrides.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:29 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio


I also would be interested as to booting windoze from a memory stick like a
live cd of Linux. 
 
It takes so long for me to re install everything should I have a system wide
crash.  Just to get back back onto win XP pro I have to load XP home first
and then all of XP Pro.  With that and all the driver disks etc and whatever
else you loose in the process it can take a good day at least just to get
back to a blank windoze system with everything working.  My Laptop which I
just got (Vista)  gave the option to make a recovery disk set (4 DVD's!)
which took the best part of 4 - 5 hours to create. That's a lot of data even
for a memory stick and I dread the day I have to use them.  
 
---Original Message---
 
From: Simon \(HB9DRV\)
Date: 11/06/2009 14:18:21
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio
 
Just keep a memory stick with a Windows installation. These are now so cheap

they make a good solution for netbook-portable.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

- Original Message - 
From: "Andrew O'Brien" 

>I had a PC problem last night and Windows would not load. I was able to 
>get on the Internet and active in digital modes within a few short minutes 
>by booting a CD that contained Fldigi via Linux. This simple way of 
>getting on the air when a HD crashes of Windows fails made me wonder if 
>there is a Windows CD somewhere that we can boot and it also contains a 
>browser, digital mode software, etc?


 




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RE: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Rud Merriam]

Actually, I find recovering from a crash with a bare install to be
beneficial. It gets rid of all the junk that builds up over a year or so. 
 
One thing that helps is I copy all install CDs to a hard drive. (Actually
they are in a version control system - Subversion - if you know what one of
those is.) With them on a hard drive the install goes faster and I don't
have to get everything installed all at once. I just add things back as I
need them. 
 
 - 73 - 
Rud Merriam K5RUD
ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX 
http://TheHamNetwork.net   

-Original Message-
From: Toby Burnett [mailto:ruff...@hebrides.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:29 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio





I also would be interested as to booting windoze from a memory stick like a
live cd of Linux. 
 
It takes so long for me to re install everything should I have a system wide
crash.  Just to get back back onto win XP pro I have to load XP home first
and then all of XP Pro.  With that and all the driver disks etc and whatever
else you loose in the process it can take a good day at least just to get
back to a blank windoze system with everything working.  My Laptop which I
just got (Vista)  gave the option to make a recovery disk set (4 DVD's!)
which took the best part of 4 - 5 hours to create. That's a lot of data even
for a memory stick and I dread the day I have to use them.  
 
---Original Message---
 
From: Simon \(HB9DRV\)  
Date: 11/06/2009 14:18:21
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio
 

Just keep a memory stick with a Windows installation. These are now so cheap

they make a good solution for netbook-portable.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

- Original Message - 
From: "Andrew O'Brien" mailto:k3ukandy%40gmail.com> com>

>I had a PC problem last night and Windows would not load. I was able to 
>get on the Internet and active in digital modes within a few short minutes 
>by booting a CD that contained Fldigi via Linux. This simple way of 
>getting on the air when a HD crashes of Windows fails made me wonder if 
>there is a Windows CD somewhere that we can boot and it also contains a 
>browser, digital mode software, etc?



 






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Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Tim N9PUZ]

Products such as Image for Windows/Image for Linux will let you create 
an image of your disk on CD/DVD/Network Drive. If your drive crashes 
or just gets really trashed with a virus you can do a "bare metal 
restore" to a new drive. No reinstallation needed for Windows, Linux, 
or any of your applications.



The software is not free but it is reasonably priced. Especially when 
compared to sitting and feeding install disks to a PC and rebooting it 
many times is the option.

I have relegated an old PC to being a file server for our two 
computers. 500GB, 750GB, and even 1 TeraByte drives are pretty cheap 
these days. There isn't really a good reason to not have disk images 
and backups of anything that's worth much of your time.

Tim, N9PUZ

Toby Burnett wrote:
> 
> I also would be interested as to booting windoze from a memory stick 
> like a live cd of Linux.
>  
> It takes so long for me to re install everything should I have a system 
> wide crash.  Just to get back back onto win XP pro I have to load XP 
> home first and then all of XP Pro.  With that and all the driver disks 
> etc and whatever else you loose in the process it can take a good day at 
> least just to get back to a blank windoze system with everything 
> working.  My Laptop which I just got (Vista)  gave the option to make a 
> recovery disk set (4 DVD's!) which took the best part of 4 - 5 hours 
> to create. That's a lot of data even for a memory stick and I dread the 
> day I have to use them. 
>  

Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Toby Burnett]

I also would be interested as to booting windoze from a memory stick like a
live cd of Linux. 

It takes so long for me to re install everything should I have a system wide
crash.  Just to get back back onto win XP pro I have to load XP home first
and then all of XP Pro.  With that and all the driver disks etc and whatever
else you loose in the process it can take a good day at least just to get
back to a blank windoze system with everything working.  My Laptop which I
just got (Vista)  gave the option to make a recovery disk set (4 DVD's!)
which took the best part of 4 - 5 hours to create. That's a lot of data even
for a memory stick and I dread the day I have to use them.  
 
---Original Message---
 
From: Simon \(HB9DRV\)
Date: 11/06/2009 14:18:21
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio
 



Just keep a memory stick with a Windows installation. These are now so cheap

they make a good solution for netbook-portable.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

- Original Message - 
From: "Andrew O'Brien" 

>I had a PC problem last night and Windows would not load. I was able to 
>get on the Internet and active in digital modes within a few short minutes 
>by booting a CD that contained Fldigi via Linux. This simple way of 
>getting on the air when a HD crashes of Windows fails made me wonder if 
>there is a Windows CD somewhere that we can boot and it also contains a 
>browser, digital mode software, etc?



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Re: [digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Simon (HB9DRV)]

Just keep a memory stick with a Windows installation. These are now so cheap 
they make a good solution for netbook-portable.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

- Original Message - 
From: "Andrew O'Brien" 


>I had a PC problem last night and Windows would not load.  I was able to 
>get on the Internet and active in digital modes within a few short minutes 
>by booting a CD that contained Fldigi via Linux.  This simple way of 
>getting on the air when a HD crashes of Windows fails made me wonder if 
>there is a Windows CD somewhere that we can boot and it also contains a 
>browser, digital mode software, etc?

[digitalradio] Boot discs for emcomm/ham radio

[Andrew O'Brien]

I had a PC problem last night and Windows would not load.  I was able to get on 
the Internet and active in digital modes within a few short minutes by booting 
a CD that contained Fldigi via Linux.  This simple way of getting on the air 
when a HD crashes of Windows fails made me wonder if there is a Windows CD 
somewhere that we can boot and it also contains a browser, digital mode 
software, etc?


The CD that Dave and Skip made available for FL-digi sure helped me.

Andy K3UK

[digitalradio] 6m in Europe

[Simon (HB9DRV)]

Had a few QSO's on 6m 50.250MHz. Everyone using PSK31 - would have thought 
PSK63 / PSK125 would be more sensible myself.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com