[FADCA] Lake Placid

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:29:50 -0400

Deltona
Monday June 16 1530EDT

Way to go, Doug!

Now I know who to call!

Thanks for your help.

bud N0IA

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Christ" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:08
Subject: [FADCA] Lake Placid

Hi All.

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.

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.

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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