Continued VM10 and VB6
What I wanted to see in W10 is if VisualBasic6 does works again as a proof to me that W10 is okay
in W8 MS had disabled the IDE ! MS wants to get rid of their best and popular language product at any costs!
In W10 VB6 installed the normal way as administrator
it run's and the unsurpassed IDE of VB6 works like it does in W7
Some compatibility warnings you can ignore
For professional applications W7-64 is the preference professional PC suppliers still ship the systems with W7
But maybe W10 is not a stepback like W8 and can it be a useful next W- OS
this is my story in a nutshell
1. To run W10 technical preview I wanted it as VM in already installed WindowsVirtual PC
But it would not work in W-Virtual PC
2. Virtualbox Oracle older version was installed V4.3.8 I could not get VM W10 to work in that either.
3. V-box V 4.3.26 would not install at all here
4. VirtualBox V5.04 beta the latest did install
http://dlc-cdn.sun.com/virtualbox/5.0.0_BETA4/
there is a new stable version Vbox V4.3.28 i did not try yet
I choose new VM Win10 base Win7-64b and set DVD to ISO W10 32 bit
Used recommended settings Memory 5GB HD 25GB etc
My W510 Lenovo has CPU i7 1,73GH Q820 12G ram 500G SSD screen 1920x1080
Trying to run W10 WM this error came up:
vt-x is disabled in the bios for all cpu modes
F10 save after that W10 VM did start and W10 could be installed.
Next was install v5.04 extensions to support USB 1 2 3 twice the 1rst time it did not work.
V-BOX claims the USB devices with filter and then the Host W7 does no longer have access to it.
sharing maps to the external USB drives i found also that it does not share between host and VM
either one claims the resource not like in Windows Virtual PC a small minus point
success finally ! and I could not find any issues in running the VB6 IDE
the Database environment normal
some issues pending
solved
The VM-W10 screen resolution is restricted to 1600x1200 where its host W510 has maximum FullHD 1920x1080
There a link fix this and set W10 at full screen but the solution i found
in https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=63969
Nice but some key information was not given so I could not yet fix it
That will be the common problem of nerds to provide complete information for the outside wold ?
I would expect to set the screen resolution in the well designed Oracle Virtualboxmanager
USB support is an extra Guest addition and not standard included.
Bit odd that important user setting, the screen resolution has to be managed through the backdoor VBoxManage.exe commandline
first time to see if a value was set
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VboxManage.exe getextradata "Windows 10" Customvideomode1
No value set!
then set the value that fits to you screen
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VboxManage.exe setextradata "Windows 10" Customvideomode1 1920x1280x32
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VboxManage.exe getextradata "Windows 10" Customvideomode1
1920x1280x32
then in VM Windows 10 screen resolution 1920 x 1080 is added and can be selected
next issue is how to share (USB)drives and or Maps simultaneous between the VM and Host
that is easy in MS Virtual PC the resources of the Host are shown in the VM explorer tree.
Some sharing functions are offered
looks complex for basic functionality
I tried the command-line again a long type that Linux people like so much..
C:\program Files\Oracle\Virtualbox\Vboxmanage.exe sharedfolde add "Windows 10"--name "W10share" --hostpath "C:\G"
But I could not access that share in the host
Now I use Teamviewer to transfer files between VM and host that's easy
teamviewer showed that share! but does not need it to function.
other issue MOXA N-PORT which we use to provide more serial ports
The W8 WHQL driver can find only the 1rst Port of 4 of an N-port 5410
not fixed yet guess Moxa is working on W10 drivers
it was easy to set up a VM for UBUNTU in V-BOX no issues with vt-x etc
An other success I had with Rosetta Stone language course French DVD version
for the xyl I had that installed on my spare X60 Lenovo + docking station DVD
It could not be used on the no CD MacbookAir ?? that what was said
But After contacting the Rosetta Stone help chat i got an link to install it on the Macbook
no problem at all good service.
Of course you need the product code to activate.
OPENING 6m PY ZP
I was too busy and missed the 6m opening last night to PY and ZP
.. audio alert was off
I need a whatsapp message alert maybe that can help me not missing the openings
I did not expect 6m to open after the almost complete radio blackout of the last week after 15 may
But WSPR 10m VK2KRR was back again in the morning grayline so some rcovering
PROPAGATION Mechanism 50MHz
If my radio 40km west neighbor PF7M is not giving 599+ reports and "only" 559
i think it was wasting time to look ;-)
Although it is not 100% impossible that the spotty skip is visiting my small footprint for a change?
i will not know now..
In all my noise listening years on the tragic band I have learned that propagation on 50MHz can be simplified.
When not in a real solar cycle peak we have no DX propagation outside May June Juli
The wildest DX is reported in the first months of the year in South Europe.
But below a virtual sharp line somewhere over North Italy. Above that line is no go for 50MHz
This is the best TEP time. But unfortunate we are to far North and we have no ES yet to have a link to it.
Later this TEP wil be getting weaker and the southern hemisphere loses there ES going towards winter So the goodies will be out of reach for us by the time we have the ES link here.
But then when "we" have ES actual it is more like them have ES I EA HA OM OK UA S-DL
sometimes the band can open a link to f.i. Indian ocean
That was real good for us here begin May we had that 1 week 4 days 3B9FR was reported
I missed all except May 15 the last opening but that was my bad timing with dinner.
In this first May days ES propagation seems to be better in parts of South-Scandinavia.
SM6 OZ SM4 LA reported S.A. contacts we could not hear ( we = also the OM arround that seem hear "everything" that goes on always)
But the normal procedure is first ON and PA close to ON land report DX
This can shift to my region JO33HG as well but it tends to prefer to be west of me
Being at the tale of an opening feels like behind a wall you hear the signals you want but weaker than every one else. And for the dx you are nr 100 PA/DL/ON not real exciting for them anymore
can't blame a PA is a PA for DX north or south the same but not for me...
Then it skips right to south Scandinavia and never lands here.
Of course this is not a strict rule there are exceptions we can hear sometimes some DX that can't be heard in the south but that's only for the short exception period it never happened that a DX was only workable in the northern part and not in south?
This year this happened but the years before I noticed that too.
We are to close suddenly... and in the dead zone.
A good period does not last that long 4 days was extreme.
Than inevitable it ends with a magnetic storm radio blackouts
It can recover in a week or so but then mean time propagation changes more to west S.A.
That is what we see now gone is 3B8FR and the PY's come we are hoping for some deeper south
Patagonia CE VP8 etc but the ES season for them is over...
we can not force working DX...
So the DX range is restricted
In a real solar maximum other DX rules are valid then with real F2 propagation that we do not see now.
Imho this is valid for my observations
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LENOVO X60 docking bay Audio loopback
Those Lenovo X60 + docking station with DVD com1 and more USB look perfect for radio apps
they can be purchased for 100ā¬ including dock and installed registered W7
But they have a flaw using the docking station some sort of software? shortcirquit exists between the audio in and out port
That is the line in is allways! monitored to audio out / or speaker no matter if this checked or unchecked in the (difficult) W7 audio properties settings.
unchecking monitor line in has a too little effect it damps a little bit only
When there is no plug in the lineout that switches off the internal LS still you will hear a start of audio loop-back when having volume up and you hand above the internal microphone ..
Bad flaw makes it hard to use the digital radio modes with this X60 docking bay
So you get the old Mexican dog effect back in your system
I had to use an extra relay contact to switch of the line in during TX WSPR for that
And this docking bay ( both I have have the same flaw) suddenly go wild on the speakers
the line in signal mostly noise from the radio in WSPR mode
Goes unwanted very loud over the LS to be heard everywhere in the house
preferable this happens in the middle of the night when else?
just out of the blue!
I can silence the speakers with the kill button or bring the volume to 0 but then
My WSPR in TX has no longer the audio driven signal so that is silenced too
The only way i found is to un- and dock again.
What I wanted to see in W10 is if VisualBasic6 does works again as a proof to me that W10 is okay
in W8 MS had disabled the IDE ! MS wants to get rid of their best and popular language product at any costs!
In W10 VB6 installed the normal way as administrator
it run's and the unsurpassed IDE of VB6 works like it does in W7
Some compatibility warnings you can ignore
WINDOWS 10 is seen as a repaired version of Windows 8
I never saw use for W8 that one I skip'dFor professional applications W7-64 is the preference professional PC suppliers still ship the systems with W7
But maybe W10 is not a stepback like W8 and can it be a useful next W- OS
this is my story in a nutshell
1. To run W10 technical preview I wanted it as VM in already installed WindowsVirtual PC
But it would not work in W-Virtual PC
2. Virtualbox Oracle older version was installed V4.3.8 I could not get VM W10 to work in that either.
3. V-box V 4.3.26 would not install at all here
4. VirtualBox V5.04 beta the latest did install
http://dlc-cdn.sun.com/virtualbox/5.0.0_BETA4/
there is a new stable version Vbox V4.3.28 i did not try yet
I choose new VM Win10 base Win7-64b and set DVD to ISO W10 32 bit
Used recommended settings Memory 5GB HD 25GB etc
My W510 Lenovo has CPU i7 1,73GH Q820 12G ram 500G SSD screen 1920x1080
Trying to run W10 WM this error came up:
vt-x is disabled in the bios for all cpu modes
It seemed that in my Lenovo W510 "vt-x" was disabled in the bios
your PC has to provide virtual technics in its hardware for W10 / VM
coldboot > wait for Lenovo logo > F1 > security > security chip = enable > Intel(R)TXT = disabledF10 save after that W10 VM did start and W10 could be installed.
Next was install v5.04 extensions to support USB 1 2 3 twice the 1rst time it did not work.
V-BOX claims the USB devices with filter and then the Host W7 does no longer have access to it.
sharing maps to the external USB drives i found also that it does not share between host and VM
either one claims the resource not like in Windows Virtual PC a small minus point
success finally ! and I could not find any issues in running the VB6 IDE
the Database environment normal
some issues pending
solved
The VM-W10 screen resolution is restricted to 1600x1200 where its host W510 has maximum FullHD 1920x1080
There a link fix this and set W10 at full screen but the solution i found
in https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=63969
Nice but some key information was not given so I could not yet fix it
That will be the common problem of nerds to provide complete information for the outside wold ?
I would expect to set the screen resolution in the well designed Oracle Virtualboxmanager
USB support is an extra Guest addition and not standard included.
Bit odd that important user setting, the screen resolution has to be managed through the backdoor VBoxManage.exe commandline
first time to see if a value was set
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VboxManage.exe getextradata "Windows 10" Customvideomode1
No value set!
then set the value that fits to you screen
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VboxManage.exe setextradata "Windows 10" Customvideomode1 1920x1280x32
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VboxManage.exe getextradata "Windows 10" Customvideomode1
1920x1280x32
2 simple commands but exactly follow the syntax !
And your "VM name" "Windows 10" spelled exact case sensitive
then in VM Windows 10 screen resolution 1920 x 1080 is added and can be selected
so the screen resolution issue can be fixed
next issue is how to share (USB)drives and or Maps simultaneous between the VM and Host
that is easy in MS Virtual PC the resources of the Host are shown in the VM explorer tree.
Some sharing functions are offered
looks complex for basic functionality
I tried the command-line again a long type that Linux people like so much..
C:\program Files\Oracle\Virtualbox\Vboxmanage.exe sharedfolde add "Windows 10"--name "W10share" --hostpath "C:\G"
But I could not access that share in the host
Now I use Teamviewer to transfer files between VM and host that's easy
teamviewer showed that share! but does not need it to function.
other issue MOXA N-PORT which we use to provide more serial ports
The W8 WHQL driver can find only the 1rst Port of 4 of an N-port 5410
not fixed yet guess Moxa is working on W10 drivers
it was easy to set up a VM for UBUNTU in V-BOX no issues with vt-x etc
An other success I had with Rosetta Stone language course French DVD version
for the xyl I had that installed on my spare X60 Lenovo + docking station DVD
It could not be used on the no CD MacbookAir ?? that what was said
But After contacting the Rosetta Stone help chat i got an link to install it on the Macbook
no problem at all good service.
Of course you need the product code to activate.
OPENING 6m PY ZP
I was too busy and missed the 6m opening last night to PY and ZP
.. audio alert was off
I need a whatsapp message alert maybe that can help me not missing the openings
I did not expect 6m to open after the almost complete radio blackout of the last week after 15 may
But WSPR 10m VK2KRR was back again in the morning grayline so some rcovering
PROPAGATION Mechanism 50MHz
If my radio 40km west neighbor PF7M is not giving 599+ reports and "only" 559
i think it was wasting time to look ;-)
Although it is not 100% impossible that the spotty skip is visiting my small footprint for a change?
i will not know now..
In all my noise listening years on the tragic band I have learned that propagation on 50MHz can be simplified.
When not in a real solar cycle peak we have no DX propagation outside May June Juli
The wildest DX is reported in the first months of the year in South Europe.
But below a virtual sharp line somewhere over North Italy. Above that line is no go for 50MHz
This is the best TEP time. But unfortunate we are to far North and we have no ES yet to have a link to it.
Later this TEP wil be getting weaker and the southern hemisphere loses there ES going towards winter So the goodies will be out of reach for us by the time we have the ES link here.
But then when "we" have ES actual it is more like them have ES I EA HA OM OK UA S-DL
sometimes the band can open a link to f.i. Indian ocean
That was real good for us here begin May we had that 1 week 4 days 3B9FR was reported
I missed all except May 15 the last opening but that was my bad timing with dinner.
In this first May days ES propagation seems to be better in parts of South-Scandinavia.
SM6 OZ SM4 LA reported S.A. contacts we could not hear ( we = also the OM arround that seem hear "everything" that goes on always)
But the normal procedure is first ON and PA close to ON land report DX
This can shift to my region JO33HG as well but it tends to prefer to be west of me
Being at the tale of an opening feels like behind a wall you hear the signals you want but weaker than every one else. And for the dx you are nr 100 PA/DL/ON not real exciting for them anymore
can't blame a PA is a PA for DX north or south the same but not for me...
Then it skips right to south Scandinavia and never lands here.
Of course this is not a strict rule there are exceptions we can hear sometimes some DX that can't be heard in the south but that's only for the short exception period it never happened that a DX was only workable in the northern part and not in south?
This year this happened but the years before I noticed that too.
We are to close suddenly... and in the dead zone.
A good period does not last that long 4 days was extreme.
Than inevitable it ends with a magnetic storm radio blackouts
It can recover in a week or so but then mean time propagation changes more to west S.A.
That is what we see now gone is 3B8FR and the PY's come we are hoping for some deeper south
Patagonia CE VP8 etc but the ES season for them is over...
we can not force working DX...
So the DX range is restricted
In a real solar maximum other DX rules are valid then with real F2 propagation that we do not see now.
Imho this is valid for my observations
LENOVO X60 docking bay Audio loopback
Those Lenovo X60 + docking station with DVD com1 and more USB look perfect for radio apps
they can be purchased for 100ā¬ including dock and installed registered W7
But they have a flaw using the docking station some sort of software? shortcirquit exists between the audio in and out port
That is the line in is allways! monitored to audio out / or speaker no matter if this checked or unchecked in the (difficult) W7 audio properties settings.
unchecking monitor line in has a too little effect it damps a little bit only
When there is no plug in the lineout that switches off the internal LS still you will hear a start of audio loop-back when having volume up and you hand above the internal microphone ..
Bad flaw makes it hard to use the digital radio modes with this X60 docking bay
So you get the old Mexican dog effect back in your system
I had to use an extra relay contact to switch of the line in during TX WSPR for that
And this docking bay ( both I have have the same flaw) suddenly go wild on the speakers
the line in signal mostly noise from the radio in WSPR mode
Goes unwanted very loud over the LS to be heard everywhere in the house
preferable this happens in the middle of the night when else?
just out of the blue!
I can silence the speakers with the kill button or bring the volume to 0 but then
My WSPR in TX has no longer the audio driven signal so that is silenced too
The only way i found is to un- and dock again.
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