Re: [digitalradio] Odd PC Issue
Jose, Here's a full technical description about this executable and its tasks: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Jose A. Amador To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Odd PC Issue DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: SVCHOST (svchost.exe) IS a dog and CAN eat up performance on such a short term/time basis that it will never show up in your task manager and perhaps not even as a spike on you CPU performance. The other possibility is that something is running in the background (a ham radio program that you don't have running on other computers) that has not totally closed down. Go to your task manager and control panel services and kill/stop all un-needed programs/services and see if the problem goes away. 73, Walt/K5YFW This is an old doubtwhat does SVCHOST do? What is it good for to have running on a Windows PC? I usually see SEVERAL instances simultaneously on the task manager. Jose, CO2JA
Re: [digitalradio] RTTY Contest on 17M
Huh? I don't hear anyone on 18.105 MHz. But 20 and 15 meters are loaded with signals! 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Roger J. Buffington To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:51 AM Subject: [digitalradio] RTTY Contest on 17M There is heavy RTTY contesting on 17M; specifically around 18.105Mhz. I had understood, perhaps incorrectly, that contesting was excluded from the WARC bands. No? de Roger W6VZV -
Re: [digitalradio] Re: External hard drives?
Well in christ's name (your terminology), your solution doesn't solve Andy's problem of putting personal software on a company computer. You missed the part that the registry is going to get updated (if it is even accessible). Read on. Credible IT departments tie down the operating system very tight in order to reduce the probability of employees hauling worms, viruses, and other crap into the office and spreading it across the Enterprise. I know, I ran a corporate IT department for 8 years. From a pure IT perspective, laptops are the most dangerous PC's on the Enterprise. It's much easier to control and manage desktop machines. The solution I would propose is to purchase a new drive and caddy for the laptop. Typically there is one screw that holds the HDD into the laptop and that screw is accessible from the outside of the case. Depending on the drive size you want, this can be less than a $100 investment. Get your own drive, format it up, load your OS, and install your personal applications. Swap the drives when you want to run your radio applications at home. But be aware if you bring your laptop into work with your personal drive installed, you'll get hauled in front of the CIO to explain why you are putting the company infrastructure in jeopardy. And the incident will be written up in your permanent record. If this sounds blunt and excessive... well you don't understand the nightmares IT departments face, trying to support large networks that wrap around the world. I don't know for whom Andy works, but if it's a large corporation with an IT staff, he may find the screw holding the disk caddy into his new laptop has been superglued into place. My engineers didn't go to that extreme, but if there was a laptop suspected of issues, it got a fresh format and a standard build of corporate licensed software installed. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Salomao Fresco To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: External hard drives? Hi to all! I believe there is a big confusion! On the first post Andy states this: I just got a new company laptop. What the heck does he need to know about master, slave, falt cables and color of the power cables? He is talking about a laptop for Christ sake. He is asking you the time and you're telling him how the clocks work. He only wants to know if it is possible to load the Ham radio software that he needs to work digi modes on a External Hard Disk. I answer him YES, but there is no need to do it, why don't you try a Pen Drive, there are lots on the market now and the prices are low enough, I bought one with 1Gb for 19,99 euros a few months ago. How to use it? Instead of installing the software in the Computers own hard disk, install it on the flash drive (pen). This way you can use work your digimodes in about any computer. (it might not work with all programs, because some of them need to install some files in the Windows folder). Regards Happy new 2007 Sal On 12/29/06, Dave Doc Corio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse me for jumping in here, but I'd like to add one thing. Please be sure the power supply in the PC is capable of carrying the extra load. Many computers being made contain only a bare minimum power supply - usually on the order of 200 or 250 watts. While this is adequate for what is in the PC at the time it is shipped, adding peripherals can overload the power supply. Adding an extra hard drive, CD/DVD burner, video card and audio card can tax a minimal power supply and cause many problems. Usually, just adding one of these is not a major concern, but consider upgrading the power supply if you're adding several. A 450 watt power supply is generally fairly cheap - on the order of $35 to $60, and can save headaches down the road! 73 Dave KB3MOW A computer, intelligent, friend of mine has been educating me of swapping hard drives... For example, drive C..is usually marked at 'master' and the others are marked as slaves The marking is a jumper .. On the bank of your hard drive are three recepticles... The first one is a long plug, of which the data flows... The second plug / receptical contain 4 rather heavy wires.. marked yellow, black, black and red.. they contain the D.C. wiring.. I assume by the colours The third plug has no opposite polarity receptical but contains jumper(s)... This is the jumper which determnes whether or not the hard drive is a slave or master drive... On one side of your hard drive, you should notice some printing which tells you how to make the drive a master or slave... You follow the instructions to make that drive a master or slave This will allow you to put another drive onto your existing computer including
Re: [digitalradio] Re: External hard drives?
I am suggesting a 2.5 HDD caddy, like these: http://newmode.us/caddies/ If you are lucky to get a new laptop, you simply purchase the appropriate caddy and move the HDD into it. I will speculate the vast majority of digital radio reflector subscribers are from the roll your own camp. The idea that an IT department would hand you a new laptop, have all the applications setup, have all the login scripts created, all the forced password renewals installed, and have your access to the operating system locked out... is a little hard to believe. But this is the reality in most corporations today. IF Andy works for a company that has no IT department (or has weak IT policies), he may have free reign over the laptop configuration. IF NOT, my solution is the safest way to keep his business use and personal use of the company asset separated. For the rest of us who roll our own... maybe you're lucky to work in the IT department. If not, you might be participating in a career limiting activity. When it involved our corporate network/computer security, I have personally seen more than one person walked out the front door. In any case, I am way off topic for the Digitalradio Forum. Sometimes I get up on the soapbox. I do hope I shed some light on methods companies use to keep their computer environments safe. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Salomao Fresco To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: External hard drives? Well, I believe your solution is way more complicated to perform. Besides, what use will have the docking station if the laptop gets replaced for instace for another brand? The USB PEN drive will work on almost every computer provided that the programs were correctly installed. And there is enough space on a 2Gb pen drive to install a version of the SO of your choice and make it bootable. I know what I'm talking, because I've allready done it. The docking station is waaay more expensive than the 20 bucks of a pen drive. Give it a try, if it doesn't work, the worst that can happen is getting stuck with a usb pen drive that can carrie a lot of files. Think of it. Regards On 12/30/06, Robert Chudek - KØRC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well in christ's name (your terminology), your solution doesn't solve Andy's problem of putting personal software on a company computer. You missed the part that the registry is going to get updated (if it is even accessible). Read on. Credible IT departments tie down the operating system very tight in order to reduce the probability of employees hauling worms, viruses, and other crap into the office and spreading it across the Enterprise. I know, I ran a corporate IT department for 8 years. From a pure IT perspective, laptops are the most dangerous PC's on the Enterprise. It's much easier to control and manage desktop machines. The solution I would propose is to purchase a new drive and caddy for the laptop. Typically there is one screw that holds the HDD into the laptop and that screw is accessible from the outside of the case. Depending on the drive size you want, this can be less than a $100 investment. Get your own drive, format it up, load your OS, and install your personal applications. Swap the drives when you want to run your radio applications at home. But be aware if you bring your laptop into work with your personal drive installed, you'll get hauled in front of the CIO to explain why you are putting the company infrastructure in jeopardy. And the incident will be written up in your permanent record. If this sounds blunt and excessive... well you don't understand the nightmares IT departments face, trying to support large networks that wrap around the world. I don't know for whom Andy works, but if it's a large corporation with an IT staff, he may find the screw holding the disk caddy into his new laptop has been superglued into place. My engineers didn't go to that extreme, but if there was a laptop suspected of issues, it got a fresh format and a standard build of corporate licensed software installed. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Salomao Fresco To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: External hard drives? Hi to all! I believe there is a big confusion! On the first post Andy states this: I just got a new company laptop. What the heck does he need to know about master, slave, falt cables and color of the power cables? He is talking about a laptop for Christ sake. He is asking you the time and you're telling him how the clocks work. He only wants to know if it is possible to load the Ham radio software that he needs to work digi modes
Re: [digitalradio] SSB mixed with Mixw output?
Chuck, Well even with the new email header, the voice is still saying Trial... Trial... ;-) 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Chuck Mayfield - AA5J To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] SSB mixed with Mixw output? Sorry all. I should have changed the subject line on my last. I recently downloaded and installed MixW2.17. The problem I am having is an USB audio burst that appears periodically in (apparently) both the received and transmitted audio approximately once each four seconds. I disconnected from the sound card and from the radio and recorded a sample into a wav file. Can anyone help me with this problem? I attached the sample, but am not sure it will accompany this message. 73, Chuck AA5J
Re: [digitalradio] SOLAR TSUNAMI: X6-category flare, Dec 6, 2006
Jerry, thanks for the link... lots of educational material on that site, especially if your interest lies in propagation forecasting and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids! 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Jerry W To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 9:03 AM Subject: [digitalradio] SOLAR TSUNAMI: X6-category flare, Dec 6, 2006 There is a short video clip on www.spaceweather.com of the SOLAR TSUNAMI. Jerry - K0HZI
[digitalradio] Well-behaved... (was Re: New 80m USA Keybaording Digi Frequencies)
Bonnie, KQ6XA in part wrote, The fact is, there's a proposed solution on the table. If you have a truly constructive suggestion, let's hear it. Sexist or condescending remarks do nothing to advance the discussion. KØRC response, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich doesn't view the Well-behaved women statement as sexist or condescending. My apology is extended to you (and any others that may have been offended) if you took it in this context. As you will discover in the following link, these words have become a universal slogan for independent women across the globe. http://www.loyno.edu/newsandcalendars/loyolatoday/2004/11/ulrich.html Now to re-quote a statement from one of your own messages to an educated user... Hopefully you will research the situation, educate yourself, and get back to us at some point with a suggestion. Bonnie KQ6XA This will be my last comment on the topic. As you suggested, I do want to advance the discussion. In reality, I already make my position clear in a previous message. Concisely; I believe creating a regimented menu of frequencies for the 80m band is wasted time and energy. Guidelines - fine, chanelization and frequency coordination are the state of VHF/UHF operations, not HF. Here is a copy of my complete message: This is nuts! This is equivalent to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Operators are not going to adhere to a regimented bandplan which slices spectrum up into slivers of Hertz. It implies exclusivity to mode. And where will the next dozen yet-to-be-invented digital technologies fit in? Do we really want to setup frequency coordinators for the HF bands? In addition, to say CW will be squeezed down into the bottom 40 KHz ignores reality. Less than 20% of the ham population hold the Extra class license. They will enjoy 25 KHz of spectrum. Do you really think 80% of the ham population will find a comfortable fit in the remaining 15 KHz? To say CW has 500 KHz available (all of 80/75 meters) again ignores reality. How much CW activity do you find in the upper 200 KHz on 20m? What I hear is about 1/10-WPM CW... oh, wait... those are the tuner-uppers on top of the DX stations, it's not really CW. I perceive radio operators will adjust their 80m operating habits to mimmic 20m. The only difference I expect will be during RTTY contests, when stations will wash down further, toward 3500 KHz instead of up past 3600 KHz. There's little need for a menu of digital frequency assignments. If you want channelization, enjoy the 60m band experience. 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
Re: [digitalradio] Re: New 80m USA Keyboarding Digi Frequencies
Bonnie, That statement is quite arrogant... Skip IS educated on the topic and provided several insights regarding current spectrum usage. Your next message suggests to re-crystal hundreds of rigs just so your bandplan can fall into place and be implemented? I realize well-behaved women seldom make history, but I doubt your name will be associated with the future structure of the lower 100 KHz of the 80m band. But with your insistence and repeated broadcast of the bandplan, this looks like the driving force to me. My apology if you find this blunt. But I don't see you holding back on bluntness with others in your messages. In reality, this is a frank discussion. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: expeditionradio To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:18 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: New 80m USA Keyboarding Digi Frequencies Skip KH6TY wrote: If someone is going to propose a bandplan then it might be a good idea to first educate oneself as to the current usage and limitations, since that IS important! Hopefully you will research the situation, educate yourself, and get back to us at some point with a suggestion. Bonnie KQ6XA
Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Hall of Shame
Although I admire and support the concept, deployment, and technical achievement of the NCDXA International Beacon System, I view this system as a secondary user of the amateur radio spectrum with all the rights and privileges of a secondary user. Certainly the goal of avoiding interference to this resource is admirable, but a defacto no interference policy will be a futile exercise. Publishing a partial list of operators who have strayed onto 14.100 mHz does nothing to reduce interference. However, if no interference is a desired goal, a new STA license should be submitted with a request for clear channels of operation, maybe a kHz or so *outside* the amateur radio bands. According to the NCDXF/IARU website, the beacon system was originally deployed in 1979. During the past 25 years, hardware and beacon monitoring software have been developed, marketed and sold. The international value of this radio propagation system could be leveraged to petition the FCC for a new STA. Or maybe it's time for this technology to migrate from amateur status to full blown commercial status, just like many other developments in the past. The most recent example that comes to my mind is the development of the PacketCluster system. It was originally conceived and developed by Dick Newell - AK1A to help DXers monitor DX station activities. Dick developed this system with assistance from many amateur radio operators. Several years later the product was taken to the commercial market as Cerulean Technologies. In 2000 this company was purchased by Aether Systems for $150 million. Today, the mobile communication systems used by hundreds of police and emergency services companies are the result of one amateur radio product being taken to the commercial marketplace. Like I said, maybe it's time for the beacon system to move to the next level too. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN - Original Message - From: Michael Keane K1MK To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY Hall of Shame At 11:51 PM 9/25/06, Patrick Soileau wrote: I fail to see where beacons are more important than QSOs. They're not. Which is why the FCC rules do not permit US stations to operate automatically controlled beacons on HF; and why W6WX and KH6YY require STAs for their beacon operations. 73, Mike K1MK Michael Keane K1MK [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
