In a message on 12-10-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   EV> Howdy! Holger aka ... .- -- ,   
      
   RR GM Ed aka . -..   
      
   EV> I started a Full Scan with Windows Defender and didn't know it would   
   EV> take longer than 5 or 6 Hours to complete.   
   EV> It took over 15 hours since 6AM yesterday and I checked it just now   
   EV> and it had finished.   WHEW!!!!   
      
   Dunno what that Defender is, 'cause I don't use it. If it's an antivirus   
   program, I use the free AVG program that does an automatic scan in the   
   background every day while I work at that machine. It isn't noticeable.   
      
   One of my Win10 machines makes backups with the Windows backup program,   
   the other one uses the Easeus ToDo backup program that Tom recommended.   
      
   The Windows BU-pgm takes about 6 hrs to make a clone, but an ordinary   
   full backup takes about 2 hrs.   
      
    HG> As you can see, now the day and date correlate, BUT are incorrect.   
      
    HG> More work is needed, but the cause of error wasn't in the BIOS, but   
    HG> in the QWK program.   
      
   Yes, sort-of. If the mailing QWK program doesn't put in that w-day the   
   receiving QWK program has nothing to go on, because Fido isn't putting   
   in that time.   
      
    HG> I've never had any Collins gear but our club has a 75A2.   
      
   EV> That heavy thing (RX) will keep the Operating Desk from floating   
   EV> away if the Ham Shack got flooded.   
      
   That receiver is in our club house atop a mountain so there's no risk of   
   it becoming flooded.   
      
    HG> Now I'm on familiar territory. My first SSB transmitter was a homebuilt   
    HG> 'Chinese Copy' of the CE 20 with european tubes.   
      
   EV> I remember they made a CE 10 and CE 20 back in the late 1950's.   
      
   Correct. My 20A copy came on the air in 1955.   
      
    HG> As VFO I used the one that was built into a BC-458 surplus transmitter.   
      
   EV> Hope You didn't have to have the whole BC-458 on Your Desk just to   
   EV> use the VFO in it with the CE 20.   
      
   It seems to me that you don't know those aircraft transmitters/receivers   
   They were very compact as were the receivers. The BC-453 as an example   
   was a receiver that covered (IRC) 200-550 kc and had an 85 kc IF.   
      
   That receiver became named the Q5-er and often was inserted as an   
   extension to a receivers 455 kc IF to improve the selectivity.   
      
    HG> This was the first SSB transmitter on-the-air from Finland 1955 and   
    HG> 1997 from Aland Islands.   
      
   EV> You were on SSB when I was a SWL using a Midwest Radio Corp.   
   EV> Multi-Band RX. That was three years before I earned my Novice   
   EV> License.   
      
   That's life.   
      
   EV> I have a CE GC-1 Gated Compression Amplifier another Ham gave me in   
   EV> My Shack.   
      
   Don't know that piece of gear. SSB didn't need any compression to outdo   
   AM transmissions.   
      
   EV> Ah!, the 1625 was a 12V version of the old reliable 807 tube (iirc).   
      
   Correct but with another socket.   
      
    HG> .. Windows Error #6BD3 : System Outclassed! Non-Windows OS   
   EV> But still a GUI   .... ..   
      
   OS/2 does also have a GUI.   
      
      
   GN es 73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
      
   .. Capt'n!  The spellchecker kinna take this abuse!   
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    * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228)