From ham-computers at mailman.qth.net Sun Jan 4 11:54:05 2015 From: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net (Robert Downs via Ham-Computers) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 11:54:05 -0500 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Excel 2007 versus 2003 Message-ID: It's End-of-the-year time here again. Sometime during the past year, I installed Office 2007 on our main machine (running XP). I just discovered that Excel 2007 won't save to a dBase 4 or 5 DBF, which for several years was how I had been getting around 2003's unfriendly treatment of leading zeros and 13-digit eBay Item Numbers. Does anyone know whether (a) there is a patch available somewhere to fix this? Or whether you can reinstall just Excel 2003 somehow without disturbing the Office 2007 installation? Our Sales Tax report is due in a week.and a half. And is there in either one of them a way to change the default treatment of all-numeric fields from numeric to text. Which solves both the leading zero and the eBay Item Number problem. For the benefit anyone to whom it might matter but who hasn't yet discovered it, sometime between 2003 and 2007, Microsoft rewrote the definition of a CSV (Comma Separated Variable) file to eliminate the double-quotes. Excel 2007 will still read the file with double quotes around each field but if you edit and save it, it strips out the double quotes. And Yahoo NEO won't read the old format file at all. Robert Downs - Houston wa5cab dot com (Web Store) MVPA 9480 From wxfreqrs at cableone.net Sun Jan 4 21:10:15 2015 From: wxfreqrs at cableone.net (Don) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:10:15 -0600 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Excel 2007 versus 2003 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6613DAF221AF446CAC569DECE0A7AA3E@Don451> Don't know about all the other stuff but YES to text/number FORMAT CELL Don Peace Through Superior Firepower -----Original Message----- From: Ham-Computers [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert Downs via Ham-Computers Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 10:54 AM To: Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net Subject: [Ham-Computers] Excel 2007 versus 2003 It's End-of-the-year time here again. Sometime during the past year, I installed Office 2007 on our main machine (running XP). I just discovered that Excel 2007 won't save to a dBase 4 or 5 DBF, which for several years was how I had been getting around 2003's unfriendly treatment of leading zeros and 13-digit eBay Item Numbers. Does anyone know whether (a) there is a patch available somewhere to fix this? Or whether you can reinstall just Excel 2003 somehow without disturbing the Office 2007 installation? Our Sales Tax report is due in a week.and a half. And is there in either one of them a way to change the default treatment of all-numeric fields from numeric to text. Which solves both the leading zero and the eBay Item Number problem. For the benefit anyone to whom it might matter but who hasn't yet discovered it, sometime between 2003 and 2007, Microsoft rewrote the definition of a CSV (Comma Separated Variable) file to eliminate the double-quotes. Excel 2007 will still read the file with double quotes around each field but if you edit and save it, it strips out the double quotes. And Yahoo NEO won't read the old format file at all. Robert Downs - Houston wa5cab dot com (Web Store) MVPA 9480 ______________________________________________________________ Ham-Computers mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From lmoline at hotmail.com Wed Jan 21 09:53:19 2015 From: lmoline at hotmail.com (Loren Moline WA7SKT) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 06:53:19 -0800 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet Message-ID: Hello, My wife is wanting to do packet on 2 meters and I am wondering if anyone is doing it with a soundcard instead of a TNC? I am making the sound cables and have a serial cable to control the PTT. Thanks! Loren Moline WA7SKT Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com Starchat IRC: Channel = #hearsat RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = #rfelectronics Grid: CN86mr From w4gfq at comcast.net Wed Jan 21 10:56:41 2015 From: w4gfq at comcast.net (DE Mjr) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:56:41 -0500 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <001a01d03592$e03f8160$a0be8420$@comcast.net> Look into AGW Packet Engine (AGW PE). Don / W4GFQ -----Original Message----- From: Ham-Computers [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Loren Moline WA7SKT Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:53 AM To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet Hello, My wife is wanting to do packet on 2 meters and I am wondering if anyone is doing it with a soundcard instead of a TNC? I am making the sound cables and have a serial cable to control the PTT. Thanks! Loren Moline WA7SKT Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com Starchat IRC: Channel = #hearsat RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = #rfelectronics Grid: CN86mr ______________________________________________________________ Ham-Computers mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com From lmoline at hotmail.com Wed Jan 21 11:10:10 2015 From: lmoline at hotmail.com (Loren Moline WA7SKT) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:10:10 -0800 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet In-Reply-To: <001a01d03592$e03f8160$a0be8420$@comcast.net> References: , <001a01d03592$e03f8160$a0be8420$@comcast.net> Message-ID: Hello, I have installed it. I just need something to interface to control the com port for PTT on transmit. Thanks! Loren Moline WA7SKT Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com Starchat IRC: Channel = #hearsat RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = #rfelectronics Grid: CN86mr > From: w4gfq at comcast.net > To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:56:41 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Packet > > Look into AGW Packet Engine (AGW PE). > > Don / W4GFQ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ham-Computers [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf > Of Loren Moline WA7SKT > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:53 AM > To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net > Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet > > Hello, > My wife is wanting to do packet on 2 meters and I am wondering if anyone is > doing it with a soundcard instead of a TNC? I am making the sound cables and > have a serial cable to control the PTT. Thanks! > > Loren Moline WA7SKT > > Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL > Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com Starchat > IRC: Channel = #hearsat RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = > #rfelectronics > Grid: CN86mr > > ______________________________________________________________ > Ham-Computers mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net > > List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF > ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Ham-Computers mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net > > List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF > ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From ham-computers at mailman.qth.net Wed Jan 21 11:29:11 2015 From: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net (Robert Downs via Ham-Computers) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:29:11 -0500 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Freeing up Memory Message-ID: I still run XP SP3 on two of our three machines. Several years ago (5 to 10), I had a utility that freed up unused memory. It may have done other things as well, which may be why I can't find it by looking at program names. But my recollection is that you just ran it and it did it's thing, displayed a report, and terminated. Does anyone recall the name of any such maintenance utility? Robert Downs - Houston wa5cab dot com (Web Store) MVPA 9480 From lmoline at hotmail.com Wed Jan 21 13:42:36 2015 From: lmoline at hotmail.com (Loren Moline WA7SKT) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:42:36 -0800 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet In-Reply-To: References: , , <001a01d03592$e03f8160$a0be8420$@comcast.net>, Message-ID: I have found that Mix-W works for normal messages. Now need a program that runs with an e-mail client. Loren Moline WA7SKT Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com Starchat IRC: Channel = #hearsat RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = #rfelectronics Grid: CN86mr > From: lmoline at hotmail.com > To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:10:10 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Packet > > Hello, > I have installed it. I just need something to interface to control the com port for PTT on transmit. > Thanks! > > Loren Moline WA7SKT > > Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL > Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com > Starchat IRC: Channel = #hearsat > RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = #rfelectronics > Grid: CN86mr > > > > From: w4gfq at comcast.net > > To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net > > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:56:41 -0500 > > Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Packet > > > > Look into AGW Packet Engine (AGW PE). > > > > Don / W4GFQ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ham-Computers [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf > > Of Loren Moline WA7SKT > > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:53 AM > > To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net > > Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet > > > > Hello, > > My wife is wanting to do packet on 2 meters and I am wondering if anyone is > > doing it with a soundcard instead of a TNC? I am making the sound cables and > > have a serial cable to control the PTT. Thanks! > > > > Loren Moline WA7SKT > > > > Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL > > Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com Starchat > > IRC: Channel = #hearsat RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = > > #rfelectronics > > Grid: CN86mr > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Ham-Computers mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net > > > > List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF > > ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** > > > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > http://www.avast.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Ham-Computers mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net > > > > List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF > > ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** > > > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Ham-Computers mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net > > List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF > ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From stpatrick2 at twlakes.net Wed Jan 21 15:55:08 2015 From: stpatrick2 at twlakes.net (Dale Miller) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:55:08 -0600 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Packet In-Reply-To: References: , <001a01d03592$e03f8160$a0be8420$@comcast.net> Message-ID: <54C0122C.7000302@twlakes.net> On 1/21/2015 10:10 AM, Loren Moline WA7SKT wrote: > Hello, > I have installed it. I just need something to interface to control the com port for PTT on transmit. > Thanks! > > Loren Moline WA7SKT > > Loren if you have a true serial port then use the interface in the PSK Handbook by Buck Rogers, K4ABT < http://www.wa1wa.net/filespdf/pskhandbook.pdf > If you only have USB then you will need to use a "USB to RS232" interface and then use the serial interface in the PSK Handbook. The simple option would be to acquire a Signalink < http://www.tigertronics.com/ > -- All the Best & 73's Dale Miller, KC2CBD Cookeville, Tennessee Ham Operator since 1997 (Extra) Registered Linux User: #317401 Linux since June 2003 Registered Ubuntu User #26423 stpatrick3spam at twlakes.net stpatrick2spam at twlakes.net stpatrick3spam at gmail.com bdchimneysweepspam at gmail.com (cut the spam to reply) __ From kd7jyk at earthlink.net Thu Jan 22 22:20:36 2015 From: kd7jyk at earthlink.net (KD7JYK DM09) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:20:36 -0800 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Service Manual or repair? References: <53962D03.6050202@gmail.com> Message-ID: <038001d036bc$5eade2b0$e954fb48@mainframe> Received the following today, any ideas?: "IS THERE ANYONE THAT DOES REPAIR OR HAS REPAIR INFO ON THE BELL SYSTEM DATAPHONE 103 MODEMS... BOB TNX" Kurt From lmoline at hotmail.com Fri Jan 23 20:29:13 2015 From: lmoline at hotmail.com (Loren Moline WA7SKT) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:29:13 -0800 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Sound meter Message-ID: Hello, I am looking for a sound meter program that can use to set audio levels for various programs by monitoring the audio input to the sound card. I had a program at one time but lost it in changing operating systems. Does anyone know of such software? Thanks! Loren Moline WA7SKT Member: Pacific Northwest VHF Society and ARRL Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group. www.uhf-satcom.com Starchat IRC: Channel = #hearsat RF Electronics: Starchat IRC: Channel = #rfelectronics Grid: CN86mr From qrv at kd4e.com Fri Jan 23 21:21:20 2015 From: qrv at kd4e.com (qrv at kd4e.com) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:21:20 -0500 Subject: [Ham-Computers] Sound meter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <54C301A0.7080107@kd4e.com> Lots of them in the Android world. Have you considered getting a used Android smartphone & trying some of the apps (mostly free)? You don't have to put it on any service - just set up for wifi, go to Google Play or one of that alternative sites, download the APK's (Google Play automates that but some others don't & you merely download then click on the APK & it auto-installs). Alternatively, you can download the APK's to your pc, transfer them to the smartphone, then activate them to install. Now you have a portable sound level meter. HTH ... David KD4E > Hello, I am looking for a sound meter program that can use to set > audio levels for various programs by monitoring the audio input to > the sound card. I had a program at one time but lost it in changing > operating systems. Does anyone know of such software? Thanks! > > Loren Moline WA7SKT -- *David* ~KD4E~ Nevils, Georgia USA Safe & Secure Search Engine: duckduckgo.com Android for Hams: groups.yahoo.com/group/hamdroid Creative Tech: groups.yahoo.com/group/ham-macguyver Raspi Alternative: groups.yahoo.com/group/beagleboneblack/ Restored to design-spec at Heaven's gate 1Cor15:22