[CQ-Contest] The best op

[Damon]

> Then again, the best op may be a guy nobody ever heard of.  Somewhere,
> perhaps, is a contester who sits in his apartment running 100w with an
> indoor dipole or maybe an Isotron and his noise level is 20 over 9 on
> all bands with the NB on.  He puts in a maximum effort in every major
> contest year after year and hopes to someday break the 200 QSO barrier.
> If he is out there, I vote for him.  There's a guy who is a cut above
> the rest.
>                                                             Dan KL7Y

This is the best answer yet! Kudos for championing the guys who don't have
the big signals. I live in an apartment right now, and I'm years away from
being able to take my signal for granted.

Damon WU1T


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>From Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com  Wed Aug  8 18:08:30 2001
From: Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com (Leigh S. Jones)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 10:08:30 -0700
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Backups
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I run a home network using Category 5 networking cable and 10M speed.
The two computers for my sons run Windows 98, and, being used for
games rather than serious work, little requires back-up on these
computers.  I back up the directory on which their e-mail is stored by
sharing the directory to the network and mapping that directory on
another computer.  Back-ups are to a hard drive only, and are
performed by drag and drop.

My wife's computer runs dual boot with Windows NT Workstation and
Windows 98 (98 is used for games only).  I share to the network and
back up the entire "winnt\profiles" directory and another directory on
which I tell her to place all of her data files.  Pretty nearly
everything else can be reconstructed from the software installation
CDROMs.

On my own computer, the backup situation is pretty hopeless.  I
occasionally back up the most critical stuff to the "other" computer,
and occasionally burn a CDROM containing data that I won't need for a
while.  Otherwise, all backups are to a second hard drive on the local
computer, and it's pretty hit and miss.  I have had hard disk drives
fail, and one failure resulted in the loss of about a year's worth of
work optimizing yagi's with K6STI's "AO" program.  I could do all of
that work in a week or less with a modern 1.7GHz pentium running DOS,
but at the time I was doing my antenna optimizing using a 100 MHz
pentium in a DOS console window on a Windows machine -- very slow
indeed.  Haven't built the antennas yet!

CDROMs have the disadvantage that software for system backups to
CDROMs is hard to come by, while full tape backup is commonly
performed using the tools built into windows.

The "other" computer is a linux box with one of my older slower
pentiums running on it with Samba running to allow it to access the
Windows directory shares.

For computer users with a single computer at home and no networking
running, I recommend putting 3 hard disk drives into the machine and
running WinNT or Win2000 for the software "raid 5" striped disk sets
capability.  It provides an automatic backup plus error checking and
disk read speed improvements.  Very slick, and the price of large hard
disks has come down so dramatically in recent months that it makes
little sense to try anything else.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Norris" <dnorris at k7no.com>
To: <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 6:32 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Backups


>
> Not necessarily a contest topic but applicable none-the-less.
>
> My question is ... What do the list users do for hard drive
back-up's, if
> anything?
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Dean
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