I received many many replies from my off topic posting. I love ham radio and the generosity of people to others in need. THANK YOU. My investigations reveal that this would be the single largest expenditure on equipment I have made in two years. Many of you know me, and so you understand what that means: this is extremely expensive. It is that way because companies, having as poor a back up situation as I did, have lost vital data and will pay whatever it takes to get the problem fixed. The market will bear the price, and it is high.
My failure is in the spindle and POSSIBLY a disk head. The disk had droppings put on it for ten minutes before I figured out what was happening. I had important family financial, tax, etc. backed up as well as most important code work I am doing now. But I lost a book I was working on, a large article and all research that went into it for QST, a large article and all research that went into it for an article for QEX, a large article and all research that went into it for an article for CQ VHF, and all design work on several antennas including a small vertical array for 160 meters for N2NT and W2GD. It has mostly stopped my work on the SDR-1000 for a month while I attempt to recover. Life is too short and I can afford a full raid disk, and excellent back up, and a high quality UPS much more readily than I can afford to lose exactly 1/10 of my life's work. Thanks again to all who wrote. Bob McGwier N4HY _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
