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Comment on Area Info by KNØN

KNØN — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:12:32 +0000

Thank you- I forgot to update that one.

Comment on Area Info by Jerry Thomas (KB3HOP)

Jerry Thomas (KB3HOP) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:27:45 +0000

For the information of your group. The Mt. Baker ARC domain name is expired. So a links that redirect there are not functional. I hope this is helpful to you.

KB3HOP

Comment on First Impressions: iCOM-2200H / UT-118 D-Star Rig by ICOMAN

ICOMAN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:08:23 +0000

ANYONE HELP ME WITH LATEST PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE FOR ICOM IC-2200H & IC-V82

Comment on First Impressions: iCOM-2200H / UT-118 D-Star Rig by ICOMAN

ICOMAN — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:32:43 +0000

ANYONE KNOW IF THE IC-2200H (EUR) VERSION WHICH TAKES THE UT-118 CAN BE MOD TO WORK AS IC-2200H (EXP) VERSION WITH UT-114 DIGITAL VOICE /SCRAMBLER UNIT INSTALLED?

Comment on First Impressions: iCOM-2200H / UT-118 D-Star Rig by Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:50:09 +0000

Dear KN0N,

Thank you for the information. I was wondering about the Txm again. If I set it to on and transmit the other party sees my information. If I transmit again it defaults to off so I find myself going back into the menu to set it on again. Also I find that in rpt1 and rpt2 or I think for the 2200h it is r1c and r2c that if one puts the r1 info in first than goes to r2 the r2 will overwrite what one puts into memory. I have 3 repeaters in my area and have used up all 6 slots. 1-3 slot are for the c port and 4-6 are for the gateway. I hope I have explained this well and look forward to your additional comments.

Thank you,

Ben
KD4DWP

Comment on 3 x 7 by Dana -K4MP

Dana -K4MP — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:23:23 +0000

Good tip!

I think the one issue then is to ensure you’ve reformatted with vista/win7 and not left XP format on as it didn’t properly create an “aligned partition” (something to google). I’m not sure if restoring with paragon retains that alignment… yet.

Comment on 3 x 7 by KNØN

KNØN — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:10:44 +0000

The link in my post has the fix for the bare metal install. I did it on the media machine in our family room. I wiped the boot sector and re-partitioned it just to see how it would work. Following the instructions, I did all the updating, putting off authorization until it was all finished. Activation failed. I did the registry bit-flip in the instructions and followed the steps to refresh the system state, and then retried activation. Success!

Re: the false “clean install” I think it really is a clean install (of the OS)except for that enormous windows.old folder which you can delete, and other non-system folders on the root drive. You know this, but anyone reading should absolutely make sure everything on the physical drive is backed up somewhere else before doing the upgrade. Do not count on the installer to leave it alone.

Another tip: Paragon Backup and Recovery is a FREE disc image program that will work on Win 7 64 bit (those are hard to find). You can also do a file/file restore from the image. Mister Softee supposedly has this feature in 7 but I don’t trust them (the Vista backup was crapola). I gave Paragon the acid test by wiping my boot drive and restoring from the image- good as new. The program is not user friendly at all, so I would not recommend it to casual users.

Comment on A few things worth reading by Dana -K4MP

Dana -K4MP — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:58:28 +0000

On reading about the IBM 1401 restore, reminded me about a previous life I had working as a customer engineer for Control Data working on Seymour Crays’ CDC 6600 for dept. of energy.

I bet half the people in that room have hearing aids as I lost hearing from the loud card punches and readers as well as the high speed printers with the rotating print trains! We had 2 tons of air conditioning on each corner of the mainframe plus two 400 Hz. gensets for power. Another 20 tons air and a couple of bottles of halon gas that went off the third week of the month.. It was loud!

Comment on 3 x 7 by Dana -K4MP

Dana -K4MP — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:22:37 +0000

The issue with win 7 upgrades is the hardware that needs upgrading like: disks, video, memory etc. even from vista! It’s not clear whether xp machines warrant this churn until you need dx11 for games (my son is a gaming junkie!). I’ll just be upgrading other family members vista machines for now.

The so called “clean install really isn’t, as it leaves a widows.old folder around and doesn’t reformat as xp would. I’m not sure if a bare metal install works with an upgrade disk (other then doing a preinstall), but I’m sure someone has a work around. …Dana

Comment on 3 x 7 by KNØN

KNØN — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:05:21 +0000

Thanks for the info Dana. The machine I did today was a 2 year old slow laptop running Vista. I thought about trying the “in place” upgrade just to have the experience, but after reading your comments I am glad I did not. Everyone on the geek-boards says always do a clean install and I guess they are right.

$125 at Costco- figures. I thought I was smart buying my copies during the $50 ea sale in June. I have one left (bought 4) in the shrink-wrap for my daughter’s Vista64 machine but I told her it had to be a clean install and her C: drive is so packed she will probably put it off for a while.