History:
History of Land Mobile Radio 5.3MB PDF donated by Bob Schmid WA9FBO
Note that the software files offered on this web page are either shareware or freeware,
and are probably copyrighted. The other files presented in this section are copyrighted
by their creators, but are shared freely. If there is a readme file in any download,
please read it and respect any expressed wishes.
The DST patches are here only because of the interest expressed in them
during the time when the start and end dates were changed.
The powerpoint presentations and the MOU were initially created to help in
getting a radio site and were donated with the intent that they be used as
a starting point for your presentation. If you create one
(from one of these, or from scratch) for your situation please consider
offering it in the same spirit...
If you don't have PowerPoint on your Windows computer, Microsoft offered
a free downloadable PowerPoint Viewer.
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Repeater Power Point Presentation From
Ed Holloway KØRPT (Caution: 6+ Meg)
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Repeater Linking Power Point Presentation From
Douglas S. Otoupal N5HYD (131 kB)
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Memorandum Of Understading - Lincoln (Nebraska) Amateur
Radio Club courtesy of Ed Holloway KØRPT (32 kB). This
memorandum was instrumental in acquiring a site. It's here to use as a starting
point for your club.
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Convert by Joshua Madison (152 kB)
This is a fabulous units converter. There is no installer - the .zip file contains just a single .exe file.
Put it on your desktop and run it with a double click. This program converts Accelleration, Angle,
Area, Computer, Concentration, Density, Distance, Energy, Flow, Force, Light, Mass, Power,
Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Time, Torque and Volume units.
The version here is 4.10 and the source is
https://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows (Off-site pointer, opens in a new browser tab).
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Mantissa (19 kB)
A fabulous technical calcualator. Like the "Convert" calculator above there is no installer.
Just put the .exe file on your desktop and double click on it.
From
https://sourceforge.net/projects/calculator-with-variable
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RF Calculators and Conversions (550 kB Excel file - .xls)
This is an Excel file from Bird corporation that has a collection of ten RF-related calculators and
conversions. Enter some data and Excel does the work.
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The calcualtor page at everything RF.com 35 different
calcuators covers most things in the world of RF.
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Mo'Slo, Moslo, Mo-Slo (zipped) (19 kB)
A utility for slowing down a modern computer to run older radio programming software that has CPU speed
limitations. Using a slow computer like a 386 or a 486-33 is better.
This program is sometimes referred to as Moslow.
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PRN2FILE = Print to file (zipped) (14 kB) This
is a DOS resident program that is used to capture any printed output from another
DOS program and redirect it to a file on the same computer. This is very handy of you are
running an old Motorolas RSS program on a DOS computer and don't have a printer hooked to it.
Simply type in PRN2FILE C:\(some file name).txt [Enter] and the program loads and returns to
a C: prompt. Then run your RSS (or any other DOS program). It will think it has a printer
attached. Then do your radio programming, including generating any printouts of the radio
configurations. When you are done, exit the RSS program and at the C: prompt type PRN2FILE
[Enter] (which closes the printed output text file). Then copy the text file to a floppy and
then take it to your other computer to print it. Personally, I load it into a word processing
program so I can do a little formatting before I print it. This ZIP file includes the SOURCE
CODE (!), the executable binary, and a TXT documentation file.
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Windows-based Morse code tutor (481 kB)
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Touch-Tone Utility (zipped) (80 kB)
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HT600 2-channel to 6-channel converter (20 kB) This
is a DOS program that upgrades a Motorola HT600 handheld radio from 2 channels to 6 channels.
It does not work on later versions of the firmware.
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VPRINT = Virtual Printer (print to file) (zipped)
(15 kB) This is a DOS resident program that is used to capture screen
shots and printed output from a running MS-DOS or PC-DOS program and redirect it
to a file on the same computer. This ZIP file includes the executable binary, and a
TXT documentation file.
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Another soundblaster-based frequency
counter program (zipped) (103 kB)
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Another soundblaster-based digital
oscilloscope program (zipped) (170 kB)
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Another soundblaster-based sine
wave generator program (zipped) (120 kB)
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Smith Chart A very nice clean Smith chart diagram as
a PDF file (66 kB)
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Don't Give Me Any Static A plaque to hang up in your shack
that explains amateur radio to visitors. Published by Cushcraft back in the 1960s. (1.1 MB)
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WaveTools Version 1.0 A sound card based
package for Windows systems. By Paul Kellett (521 kB)
This package contains an audio signal generator, a dual trace audio scope, an audio
spectrum analyzer, and a stereo VU meter. While it's a Windows 3.1 program, it runs
fine in Win98 and Win2000. Since 99% of what runs under W2K runs under XP, I doubt
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WinTone ver 2.2 A DTMF decoder (1.5 MB)
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High Criteria Inc. This is a link / pointer
to the creators of Total Recorder - a package that turns a common sound-card-equipped PC
into a logging recorder - useful for using a scanner to monitor a channel for activity.
(offsite link)
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Audacity (offsite link)
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac
OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use it to change formats, like stereo
44kb WAV to mono 8kb RAW for loading into an Scom repeater controller. You can use it to
record sound effects (i.e. the original
Star Trek intercom whistle, or the
Current Affairs "Bong") for uploading to your repeater controller's DVR system.
For years we used a Western Electric 300-series
phone ringer sound as the on-the-air incoming phone sound, then we upgraded to
a WeCo 500-series sound, then to a NorTel
electronic ringer. Our autopatch played this
sound as it was dialing a number. If you didn't pay your club dues, you'd get
this. And
if you don't recognize this, or
this, or
this, you are not watching enough old
TV shows...
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Other Downloads of
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Daylight Saving
Time Patches |
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U.S. Daylight Time now starts 3 weeks earlier than the traditional date (1st week
of March instead of beginning in April), effective in the year 2007. As a result, the
automatic time change feature in Windows won't happen until 3 weeks after the fact.
The patches below will fix Windows to change on the proper dates.
These patches only affect the Windows operating system itself. If you use Outlook,
another patch (available from Microsoft) is required. Outlook keeps time internally
in UTC and converts to local time only for display, using a routine similar to, but
separate from, the one in Windows itself (why?).
Note that an additional problem remains because MS initially grouped the US and Mexico
together in the time zone select dialog in Windows (for example, "US Pacific and
Tijuana, Mexico"). Since Mexico, unlike Canada, didn't follow the U.S. in this
daylight time change, either you patch Windows and the U.S. Pacific Time zone shows
correctly and Mexico doesn't. Or you don't patch to keep Mexico correct and 1/4 of the
U.S. incorrect by an hour. This nuisance will only persist for three weeks until the
classic date for daylight change. At this point both the US and Mexico will be on
daylight time, allowing the same offset to be correct for both. (Microsoft fixed this
in the second version of their patch).
2007 Daylight Time Fix for Windows 2000
and XP (This is "take 2" of the "unofficial" 2K Patch). Since Microsoft
chose to not release any patch for Windows 2000 (which some took as an indication that MS was
abandoning those customers), others chose to take up the slack and released patches.
This is a local copy of an update that is courtesy of
http://www.intelliadmin.com, (a vendor
of corporate network management software) and updates Win2K and XP to fix the daylight
time change issue. It has been tested and verified on several Windows 2000 machines
by the repeater-builder staff. It also is claimed to work on XP installations, although
I haven't tested it, since release 2 of the official Microsoft patch available below
works correctly.
Note that after installing this patch on each computer you will have to reset the time
using an Internet utility or other means (if nothing else, just manually change the
time to the correct time). Resetting the time, even if it is only by one minute, forces
Windows to re-compute the offset between UTC time (which the operating system uses
internally) and the local time zone (which used for on-screen display). So if the
computer is right on time, you will have to bump it ahead a few minutes, then bump
it back to the correct time to force it to recompute the offset.
2007 Daylight Time Fix for Windows 98 and ME
Another freebie from
http://www.intelliadmin.com, similar to the
one above for Win 2K and XP. Again, after installing, force a recompute of the
time offset by resetting the time as mentioned above.
2007 Daylight Time Fix for
Windows XP (local copy here at repeater-builder) This is version 2 of the
official Microsoft XP Patch which fixes the Mexico problem mentioned above by creating
another entry in the Time Zone table for them. Above is a local copy,
here is a link to the MS web site.
Again, after installing, force a recompute of the time offset by resetting the time as
mentioned above.
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