[Moon] VK3UM ARRL Contest & Software updates

[Doug McArthur]

Gentlemen
*I will be on both 23 and 70cm for only Saturday of the ARRL Contest.* 
(Sat 28th Nov 15 .. Moon Rise 1135z .. set 2150z )
No skeds, no chat rooms, just random CW. If you can't hear me you have a 
problem Huston.

*Please check my website for the latest updates* as I have made cosmetic 
colour changes to the
software commensurate with Windows 7 and 10 ..*beware of W10* as I found 
many common programs do not
run on it at present.You wont knowthat until afterwards! Winding back 
from W10 to W7 is not as you would hope.
It does appear smooth enough but I found much is 'corrupted' during the 
process. My current software compilers will not
run on W10 and the Software Co. bluntly stated that they do not support 
W10 for my version, however, I could upgrade to their latest
product for a 'once of bargain price' of US$7950! ..  Accordingly I 
wound backand with considerable difficulty. That took another 4 frustrating
days to return to where I began and used half my data download budget in 
the process (4.5GB), and all the time thinking 'won't I ever learn'?
If you are going to 'upgrade', my suggestion is to Ghost your existing 
drive to another and then use that one to update
so you have a fully functional fall-back. A new MS pretty logo and some 
extra refinements, although quite nice, may not be worth itgiven it 
seems that
many drivers are not currently available for some programs and may, in 
all probabilitynever become available?

Its that *serious* that a close friends wife, (his call sign shall 
remain anomalous), took her grand sons advice over his own, and 'updated' to
W10 and promptly found she had lost all her computer games! Absolute 
disaster! It was pointed out that it was up to the grandson to provide 
the solution.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall!

73 Doug VK3UM
www.vk3um.com