It certainly is worth getting the receiver back to where it belongs. I’m not going to take the time and drive to the site and install everything just for it to continue to be deaf and run like garbage.

The previous owner of the service monitor said the level was accurate to the dial but was 1khz low. But I still use my spectrum analyzer and make sure it’s on frequency and the level is correct. I know it’s a Rigol but it’s better than anything.

I don’t know if the receiver is on frequency, I guess I should figure out how to do that.

I asked the seller which version of Ghost he was providing as I was looking for 7 or later.
He replied "I think this is version 3 or older, Not what you are looking for."
But thanks for the suggestion.?? It turns out that older versions of Hiren
had Ghost.
Three of the suggestions made here were for a bootable RescueZilla, a bootable CloneZilla and a bootable GParted.
It looks like one of those will do what I need.
Mike

Years ago (before Norton bought them) I used Ghost to image hard drives
(I was doing field support for a bank).? it worked elegantly.
I could clone one drive to another (usually larger), or creating an image file of one drive and
placing the entire image as a single file on another drive.

A company in the UK came up with a very elegant derivation of Ghost that they called Mayfair.?
I learned about it from a friend that did field service on CityBank ATMs about 5-10 years ago.?
His company issue thumb drive had two drive volumes on it, when booted it came up as C (read-only) and as D (read-write).
The image file could be placed on the D: volume of the thumb drive, on a second thumb drive, or could be written to a
blank DVD in the computer it was running on.

I am now in a situation where I could use a copy of Mayfair, and the company seems to have evaporated.
Does anybody here have any knowledge of the company that created Mayfair?? Or contact info??
I remember going to a web site and it was a commercial product.

If they are gone, then is there a really good imaging program that works as well and as elegantly as
Ghost used to be??? I know how to make a USB drive bootable with "rufus".

Yes, this request is repeater related.?
i have laptops at each repeater site that can talk to the local controller, be it RLC or Scom or Arcom.
Teamviewer or VNC makes it easy... And a laptop with nothing but the OS and a remote access
program and a controller manager would have a very small image. ?
But laptops die at inopportune times.?
I like having a "just in case" image file of the laptop at each of the sites.? I'd love to be able to refresh
my image file just before I leave a site... just restart the laptop from my bootable thumb drive, image
the laptop to a file on that thumb drive... when it 's done pull the thumb drive and restart the laptop
in normal mode.? If the laptop croaks I can drop an image on a replacement laptop and KNOW that
the new laptop has everything that the site needs...

Ideas??? Comments?

Mike WA6ILQ

Unfortunately, detailed explanations of how this was done have been purged from forums and groups
along with any valid license keys because usoft sifts through the internet to kill any mention.

If you have an activated installation with updates and software you want to keep, you can image that and
have a recovery back to where you won't have to screw around with much to get back to normal if all that
crashed was a hard drive and the machine is the same.

Many XP OEMs had a hidden recovery partion that could be activated either by a recovery boot disk or from
running a utility if you could boot up.? This would give you a fresh "out of the box" installation all pre-activated
(but requiring updates).? Using wrong versions of imaging software or incorrectly is likely to wipe out this
feature leaving you without a valid license.?

What you describe is the "bare-metal" solution, that recovers an image that is custom built, mostly virgin in its
registry, and has a variety of drivers that will install minimally, at the first run.? This gives you a mostly clean install,
and will only work if the activation conditions are met (part of the build).? If activation fails, you can trick it to give
you a grace period, but after that you can't get things to work and can't fix it without ratting yourself out to usoft.?
I don't know if it works anymore with XP since it's no longer supported.

DOS, win9x and 2000 don't require activation.? Just have a good key.? Never put your good key on the internet
or it will go dead.

On November 2, 2022 at 12:47 PM "Bob Dengler via groups.io" <no6b@...> wrote:


At 11/2/2022 09:35 AM, you wrote:
>Spec for the MTR2000 VHF is 0.35 uv or -116 dbm at 12db SINAD, so his receiver is pretty close.

1 dB less than that is typically what I get out of a MASTR II or MVP, which has the same spec. However, at least here in SoCal that's pretty much equal to the noise floor on 2 meters. Depending on the site I may or may not try adding a preamp; in most cases no because the actual S/N improvement is insignificant. However at 0.4 uV that's 2 dB worse, which in most cases would clearly be throwing away S/N. So I wouldn't be happy with 0.4 uV either - worth getting that 1 dB or (hopefully) more back.

Bob NO6B

I strongly disagree Scott... That's a recipe for disaster. Feeding wide band unsquelched noise to a modulator will cause the transmitter to over deviate. Remember the squelch noise out of a discriminator is half the bandwidth of the IF filter which means you have audio at 7.5 khz + coming out of the receiver.. Anytime I run flat audio, I always put a clipper/limiter circuit in line to prevent over deviation, and also to limit the audio bandwidth to 3 kilohertz maximum. Under FCC part 97 rules we are required to make sure that we use good engineering practices. Running raw discriminator audio straight into a transmitter modulator without any processing violates that rule. I've done that in microwave systems but that's a special case and you have the bandwidth to do it. In the crowded VHF/UHF bands, it's totally ludicrous to do so

?

Chris

WB5ITT?