Ham Radio Media Collection (DVD) ($9.00) - This now a two(2) DVD set containing over 6 GB of amateur radio media productions in audio (MP3 format) and video (WMV format) Disk includes a copy of a Windows Media Codec "Flip4Mac" for viewing WMV files in Quicktime under Mac OSX. These are burnt when ordered and will generally have right up to the latest episodes.

• Amateur Logic TV videos. Each is about 30-60 minutes in length and professionally done
• Amateur Logic TV produced videos of the Capitol City Hamfest
• Solder Smoke - all the podcasts to date with cleaned up and uniform MP3 tags
• Practical Amateur Radio Podcasts - Jerry Taylor KD0BIK
• ICQPodcast

PIC Resources Disk [Elmer 160] ($5.00) - This disk contains Microchip's MPLAB IDE; versions 6.32 and the stable versions through v 8.0 If you started Elmer 160 under version 6.x, you will initially have some minor extra work in 7.x because it places files differently. (I am running v7.60 here and all my 6.62 project files converted over with a total of 20 minutes work, one time). In addition the disk also contains the following materials;

• All Elmer 160 lessons to date (currently #1-20)
• All Elmer 160 supplied source code files
• Microchip's C18 and C30 C-compilers, student versions (they are full versions for 60 days, then they lose some of their optimization), needs MPLAB 7.30 or later
• Documentation for the C18 and the C30 compilers
• Latest JAL Compiler (2.4) for PIC/SX chips and Windows IDE with instructions for adapting JAL to PIC-EL
• Olivier Cranal's PICView Emulator v2.01
• A modest assortment of PIC projects done in JAL language, and some mathlibs, LCDlibs, and others
• Copies of QRP-L emails with pertinent information, errata, notes etc. with regard to PIC-EL and Elmer 160
• PIC-EL hardware details; pix, schematics and notes including KE6US's complete website of PIC-EL mods in PDF form
• PIC-EL hardware drivers for Windows, FPP and WinPIC burner programs. Including the new FPPA.EXE for the 16F628 and the PIC-EL 2
• 300+ MB of reference material and data sheets
• Over a dozen student written apps for the PIC-EL with pix, schematics, source code and notes, including the latest PIC-EL Gen v5.2
• 80 MB of assorted PIC projects with pix - July 2008

PSKMail2007_2 Live Boot CD - LiveBoot Linux CD - contains the working client program for PSKMail, as profiled in Steve Ford's Eclectic Technology column in January 2007 QST. (Release date - March 2007 - 412 MB) A complete working Linux bootup environment based upon the Mandriva Cherbourg release. Various options let you install to a USB FlashKey, Hard Disk or keep it on CD but run entirely from RAM for blazing speed.

Knoppix v5.1.1 EN - The latest release of the Knoppix LiveBoot CD working Linux bootup environment. For your convenience here is a copy of the Knoppix Cheat Codes. Release date - 4 January 2007 - 697 MB

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Simply MEPIS Linux - LiveBoot CD - The full release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. It is the culmination of months of work melding Simply Mepis with the Ubuntu pools. (Release date - 29 July 2006 - 689.6 MB) A complete working Linux bootup environment. A desktop icon lets you make a permanent installation in just a few mouse clicks.

Basic Stamp Resources Disk ($5.00) - this disk contains the latest Parallax IDE's for DOS, Win, Mac, and Linux,. Specifically it contains

• Parallax Basic Stamp Software and Documentation
• Parallax Education Course Materials
• Parallax Javelin Stamp Software and documenttion
• 100 MB of detailed Basic Stamp tutorials on the inner workings of the Basic Stamp from a variety of thrid-party sources
• Scenix SX20/28/48 Support Software (assembler and SX/B compiler), courseware, tutorials, and source codes
• Seven years of Nuts and Volts "Stamp Applications" columns and associated source codes
• 100 MB of Basic Stamp projects - PDFed webpages, schematics, pix, and source code
• collection of Basic Stamp codes, projects and articles specifically for dealing with NMEA GPS output
• 100 MB of miscellaneous documentation and data sheets for device most often used with Basic Stamps
• Limited source code, support software, and project codes of other stamp-like processors like the PICAXE, OOPIC, Basic Atom, AtomX
• Compilation date - May 2007

Simply MEPIS Linux - LiveBoot CD - The full release of SimplyMEPIS 3.4.3 (Release date - 9 February 2006 - 697.7 MB) A complete working Linux bootup environment. A desktop icon lets you make a permanent installation in just a few mouse clicks.

CW Resources Disk - contains Chuck Adam's (K7QO) Morse Code Course In addition to Chuck's structured course, there are another 300 MB of practice files at 20,23,25,27 wpm plus a smaller series of files from 30 up to 55 wpm. The disk also contains a series of various PDFs written about the art of CW, and a collection of over a dozen pieces of CW/Morse software for Win, Mac, and MSDOS (Compilation date - 8 November 2005)

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Harv's (AI9NL) Hamshack Hack - a remastering of Knoppix 3.8 LiveBoot CD with an incredible array of ham radio applications up and running (at the expense of a lot of more mainstream Linux apps) The latest version 0.6 beta (Release date - 12 April 2005 - 501 MB) Requires an Intel 486 or better (AMD Athlon OK) and 16 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended to use the various office products). This is an early stage development project, but is very impressive and worth a look. For all the details go to Harv's Hamshack Hack on the web.

AFU Knoppix v3.7 - The latest version Ham Radio Knoppix LiveBoot CD from Hubert Fink (DG7MGY) working Linux bootup environment. Has most Linux Ham Radio Apps pre-installed; CW, fax, PSK, logging, satellite, SSTV, rig control, packet, etc This is based on the recent Knoppix Release 3.7 . For your convenience here is a copy of the Knoppix Cheat Codes. (Release date - 21 January 2005 - 688 MB)There is only the German release, you must type "knoppix lang=us" on the boot line to get it to come up in English (the "=" on a German keyboard is 'shift-0')

US Tiger Map Data 2002 ($6.00) - single sided DVD has the entire US Census Tiger Map Data 2002. The disk contains 3.5 GB of ZIP files for use by APRS/XASTIR programs.

NTPASSWD MiniDisk ($4.00) - A small IsoLinux boot distribution on a 200 MB minindisk that will fit in your shirt pocket. NTPASSWD will safely access any Windows NT based password file and permits replacing the administrator or any other account password with a new password. It will not recover old passwords. It is NOT a tool for surrepticious entry (it is on the order of cut off the padlock and put your own on!). This disk is very useful in a corporate environment where computers get shared and a password gets changed making the machine inaccessible. System is very safe, it makes all it's accesses and does all its workup in RAMDisk and only at the last moment writes to disk after several "are you really sure?" requests.

Comments from Author The bootdisk should support most of the more usual disk controllers, and it should auto-load most of them. Both PS/2 and USB keyboard supported.

It has been tested on: NT 3.51, NT 4 (all versions and SPs), Windows 2000 (all versions & SPs), Windows XP (all versions, also SP2 and SP3), Windows Server 2003 (all SPs), Vindows Vista 32 and 64 bit, and some say it works on Server 2008 (32 & 64 bit)

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! If used on users that have EFS encrypted files, and the system is XP or Vista, all encrypted files for that user will be UNREADABLE! and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password again If you don't know if you have encrypted files or not, you most likely don't have them. (except maybe on corporate systems)

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