[FADCA] Lake Placid

[Doug Christ]

Hi All.=20

This is the latest information on Lake Placid.

I made the trip over Saturday and met with John, KK4LI, and Harry, =
K4ZNB, at the lake Placid site. There was a different computer in place =
from my previous trip there several months ago. It is a medium tower =
case, not the full size tower that I had worked on before.  Harry =
insisted that it was the same one that John, WB4MOZ,  and Doug, WB4KGY, =
worked on about two months ago. I find this hard to believe as the call =
on the switch was K4RBR plus someone had plugged the port two tnc into =
the printer port, not the serial port. I worked on the switch for =
approximately two hours before I packed the whole thing into my truck =
and carried it home.

Harry gave me a disk that he stated that John had left there. It is =
titled "Lake Placid FPAC 8 April 03". It is infected with the "ANTIEXE" =
virus so someone needs to check their computers.=20

The switch would load the old K4RBR switch but it did not function. =
Turns out that the wrong port addresses were used in the CFG file. Once =
I got the old switch working, then I tried to update it to KK4LI. The =
program would crash as soon as the FPAC screen would show. That is when =
I discovered that none of the new FPAC files (EXE, CFG, ETC...)had been =
installed. Once I corrected that and edited the 863465.CFG file with the =
correct port addresses, the system came to life.=20

The UHF port worked flawlessly however, the VHF port was a challenge. =
Turns out that the squelch circuit in the radio was on the blink and =
would not open up quick enough. The tnc has the DCD board installed so I =
just opened the squelch and solved that problem.

Harry stated that he would try and come over to Arcadia on Tuesday and =
pick up the switch from me. I will color code all of the connections to =
make it as "user friendly" as possible to install. I carried three =
computers home with with. I was able to get two of them working using a =
spare hard drive of mine in one of them. The systems are mirrored. If =
one should fail, all they have to do is change computers and they are =
back in business. Hopefully, we can cut down on these service calls.

73

Doug/KN4YT

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