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year, as well as two training exercises per six months of the
calendar year.
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Computer Tips, Techniques, Rants,
Raves, and Netiquette
submitted by Les Hulse
This
month we will take a look at handling files and folders on your PC.
You probably know most of these techniques, but maybe a new one will
sneak up on you. In any case, here are a bunch of tips all in one
article. All tips were tested for all Windows versions through XP.
Here are
the meanings of the short-hand that I use:
R-Click = right click mouse button
L-Click = left click mouse button
D-Click = double click the left mouse button
(a mouse
set-up for left-handed persons will just exchange the right and
left click actions)
Folder
Appearance
Reposition: To move an open folder around your
desktop, put the mouse pointer
on the
title bar of window L-Click and keep mouse key depressed drag and
release
Resize: To change size of folder, put mouse
pointer on the corner of the window
(symbol
will change to double arrow) L-Click and keep mouse key depressed
drag and release
Maximize/Minimize: Use
1
or
2
symbols to maximize or minimize the window (or) just D-Click
anywhere on the title bar
Folder
customization: Select Tools from menu bar select Folder
Options select appropriate
tab
make any changes you want
Folder
Actions
Create: R-Click on open area of desktop or window
select New select Folder enter a name
Delete:
R-Click on folder select Delete answer the
prompt
Copy:
R-Click on folder select Copy R-Click on open
area of desktop or window
select Paste enter a name
Move
(1): Do copy operation then do delete operation on original
folder
Move
(2): L-Click or R-Click on folder and keep mouse key
depressed drag to open area of
desktop,
window, or another folder release mouse key to drop
Movement
within folders
Open a
folder: D-Click on folder name
Go to top
of folder: Press Home key to go to first item in folder
Go to end
of folder: Press End key to go to last item in folder
Go to
item: Press any letter / number key to go to first
item beginning with that key
Backup (forget): Use Up symbol 
on toolbar
to backup 1 folder
Backup
(remember): Use Back 
symbol on
toolbar to backup 1 folder use Forward 
symbol on toolbar to return
Make folder into toolbar
Copy folder to desktop Drag to any edge and release
(R-Click to close toolbar)
File actions
Create
file: R-Click on open area of desktop or window select New
select File enter a name
Delete file: R-Click on filename select Delete
answer the prompt
Copy
file: R-Click on file select Copy R-Click on open
area of desktop or window select
Paste
enter a name
Move
(1): Do copy operation then do delete operation on original
folder or file
Move
(2): L-Click or R-Click on file and keep mouse key depressed
drag to open area of
desktop,
window, or folder release mouse key to drop
Folder
and File Views
Change
folder view: Select View from menu bar
select one of Thumbnails, Large
Icons,
Small Icons, List, or Details or select
as Web Page
Make all
folders the same: Select Tools from menu bar select
Folder Options select View
tab
select Apply to All Folders button
Recommended settings: Select Tools from menu bar
select Folder Options select View
tab
then:
select Show all Files
uncheck
Hide file extensions for known file types
select OK
button
Please note that whenever you delete a file/ folder by using the
procedures described above, the item(s) are sent to the recycle bin.
If you are absolutely, positively, 100% sure you really want to
delete the item(s), hold the shift key down when you select the
delete operation. The deleted item(s) will not go to the recycle
bin!
And there you have it a brief summary of things that you can do
when you open folders on your PC.
Have fun out there.
Question:
Do any of you find this section useful?
We can rant and rave about many topics, but do not know if it is
appreciated. Also, we will most likely choose topics that "tick us
off" and ignore the ones that you may be interested in. We can give
you our opinion on just about anything (opinions are cheap).
So let us know if this section is useful, and if you would like us
to tear into some topic, just tell us.
Send any comments and/or suggestions to the editor; Mike - address
at bottom of newsletter.
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Related SAR News
Editor's note: I recently came across this blog by a member of the
Coconino County SAR. I have been very impressed with her observation
skills and also her willingness to share them. I would really like
to see someone within our team who would undertake a similar task.
Until then since she gave me permission to do so, I will share hers
here.
Deb's Search & Rescue stories
An Ongoing Mystery
Posted: 24 Mar 2009 01:41 PM PDT
I need to get a new camera. If I had one, I'd show you a picture of
all the vegetation that came out of my hair following our latest
search--not only the pinon/juniper/ponderosa pine salad that
collected around the shower drain the night I returned, but also the
pile of twig bits I assembled on my desk the next day. Long hair and
SAR just don't mix very well.
Maybe I should shave my head?
Anyway, it was another bushwhack, this time in the area where the
ATV belonging to Mark Russell Irby was found about a week and a half
ago. As you might recall, Mr. Irby went missing on January 2nd from
Forest Lakes, when he went out for "just a short ride" around the
subdivision before he and his wife were to return to their home in
the city. But Mark Irby never did return, and, after a 10-day
search, neither he nor the red Bombardier ATV he'd been driving had
been located. Not until a couple of hunters stumbled upon the ATV
earlier this month, well outside of the original search area.
This time, I participated in the "Irby search, Part 2," on two days,
the first being a hasty search when the ATV was retrieved and then,
following the search for the 7-year old boy, a full day which
included efforts by two counties, mounted units, K-9 teams, ATV
riders and ground teams. My field team was assigned to search a
canyon. I took the center position, along the bottom, while Mike and
Larry, and Larry's chocolate lab, Logger (or maybe it's Lager?),
covered the flanks.
At first, the going was rather easy. We spread out a bit, keeping
one another in sight, and slowly made our way along what began as a
gently sloping drainage, scanning the ground and trees for anything
out of the ordinary. We kept an eye out for clothing or perhaps even
bones that weren't clearly those of an animal. We checked clusters
of rocks and beneath bushes, being as thorough as we could.
Then the canyon began to deepen, and, eventually, my teammates were
high above me and often out of sight, with steep, brush and
tree-covered walls on either side. At times, we were out of voice
contact as the vertical distance between them and me grew into the
hundreds of feet, so we resorted to communicating by radio as I
periodically plotted our progress on my map and relayed to incident
command that we were "Code 4" (okay) and our approximate location in
our search segment. Eventually, though, I was too deep in the canyon
to make radio contact with base, so my teammate on the rim above me
relayed the messages.
At one point, I thought I might have to backtrack in order to ever
exit that canyon. I'd arrived at a bit of a climb and, though Mike
had found a place to make his way down to the bottom to join me and
had successfully negotiated the tricky spot, my arms and legs just
weren't as long as his and I was having trouble finding good hand-
and footholds that I could reach. So I walked back and forth,
looking for an adequate spot to climb and finally gave in to handing
my pack up to my teammate to make things a little easier.
"You think you might be able to brace yourself to give me a wrist?"
I asked Mike as he stood looking down at me. I don't like to ask for
help, but I figured it might speed things up (a lot).
Mike wedged his foot against a dead but seemingly sturdy tree and
reached for my arm. It wasn't pretty, let me tell you, and I ended
up in the dirt, but needless to say I made it with my teammate's
assistance and we continued on.
As the canyon bottom gradually rose to rejoin the rims, so too did
my radio make contact again with the others in the field. Teams were
spread out all over the new search area, doing a good job of
covering the ten segments from morning till late afternoon. But, as
far as I know, nothing of particular interest was found, and the
mystery surrounding Mr. Irby's disappearance continues.
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Former member Bill Daily (KC7NOJ) forwarded this very interesting
story from the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) newsletter;
HAMS ASSIST WOMAN INJURED IN DESERT
It was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, when Hal Whiting, KI2U,
Todd Kluxdal, Kluxdal's father and Whiting's two sons decided to go
out to the Poverty Mountain area in Arizona to search for airplane
crash sites.
Whiting, who lives in St George, Utah, and Kluxdal, who lives in
Mesquite, Nevada, took two vehicles that day. According to Whiting,
they always take two vehicles, just in case a problem pops up: "We
always have two spare tires, extra gasoline and a tow rope. We take
enough food and supplies to stay two or three days." In addition to
the extra equipment, Whiting took the one thing he never goes
without -- his ham radio.
"It was a bit after lunch, about 73 miles into our trip," Whiting
told the ARRL," when we were flagged down by a man wanting to know
if we had a satellite phone, since he couldn't get coverage on his
cell phone."
Whiting didn't have a satellite phone, but he asked the man if this
was an emergency. Whiting said that the man told him that one of his
friends had been injured when her ATV rolled on top of her. "I told
him I could call for help on my ham radio," he said. The injured
woman was knocked unconscious by the fall, but had regained
consciousness and was speaking coherently, but was in pain.
"I picked up my mic and put out a call on the 146.910 repeater, one
of four repeaters run by Dean Cox, NR7K," Whiting said. "I called
for assistance a couple of times when Mac Magee, N6LRG, in the
Arizona Cane Beds, answered."
"Mac lives about 50 miles away from the accident site," Whiting
said. "It's funny -- it's usually Washington County hams who are on
the repeaters, since that's the direction they're pointed in. But
Mac lives in Mohave County. And the accident happened in Mohave
County. We were lucky, since if the call was answered by a ham in
Washington County, there would have been a delay in them getting the
info to the proper authorities in Mohave County, but with Mac
answering, all our information went right to the proper place."
That morning, Magee told the ARRL that he came into my shack "and
for some reason, turned on the 2 meter rig and it happened to be on
the 146.910 repeater. I usually have a problem with the repeater
'hearing' me, so I rarely use it. About 11:20 Arizona time, I heard
someone call and say they had emergency traffic and needed help. I
fully expected a bevy of hams to answer the call, since so many are
in range of that machine, but after his second call, and no answer,
I took it."
Magee said that the calling station had been flagged down by another
motorist. "He told me there had been an accident in the vicinity of
Poverty Mountain," he said. "I really had no idea where that was,
but I began to write down details. As soon as I had basic info, I
called 911. The Mohave County Sheriff Office answered; I explained
who I was and what the call was about."
The dispatcher asked Magee for the coordinates to the site, and
Magee relayed the request to Whiting. "I looked at my GPS and gave
Mac my coordinates, but he said the dispatcher wanted the
coordinates from the accident site," Whiting said. "So I got in my
4-wheel drive and drove down the ridge to the site, about 5600 feet
above sea level, and got the coordinates. I had to drive back to the
ridge, another 1000 feet up, to call Mac back, because I couldn't
get a signal down there."
Whiting told the ARRL that in addition to his ham radio, he also
carries a set of FRS radios. "I gave one of the FRS radios to Todd
and he drove his Jeep down the ridge to the accident site," he said.
"I kept the other one and Todd was able to relay me information
about the injured woman's condition and I was able to relay that
information to Mac who in turn relayed it to the 911 dispatcher. Mac
put the mic right up to the phone so the dispatcher could hear
exactly what was going on."
Magee said the 911 dispatcher requested more information: "While Hal
was replying, I held the phone up to my radio speaker. When he
finished with the details, I asked them if they copied that. The
dispatcher said he did, and they held me on the line. Hal and I
talked a while as he gave more data. When the dispatcher returned,
they said a chopper was being dispatched from Phoenix! Well, we
finished that call after they had the actual accident site GPS
coordinates that Hal had passed on."
With emergency help on the way, Kluxdal returned to the ridge and he
and Whiting and his group went on their way to go check out an
airplane crash site, the original intent of their trip. "The family
members told us to go on and get on with our trip, so we did, after
making sure they were all okay," Whiting said. "So we left to go to
the crash site, about 3-4 miles away. As we were getting ready to
return, we saw the helicopter overhead, taking the injured woman to
the hospital in Las Vegas. We returned to the top of the ridge and a
sheriff's deputy was there and he told us that our GPS coordinates
were off, but only by 20
feet! He said that the helicopter crew was real happy that they were
so on-target."
Whiting said they were glad to have been able to help. "This is a
remote area," he said. "There's only one way in, one way out with no
shortcuts to get in and out. There are only dirt roads, and it can
get very muddy when it rains a lot. I was out that way two weeks ago
and got stuck in the mud there, but it was all dry this past
weekend."
Whiting said he learned a few things after this trip: "I am glad I
had my radio equipment with me, and I am glad there was someone
listening on the repeater to take the emergency call. Having the
spare FRS radios created an efficient means for relay with a non-ham
person, and having the GPS equipment provided a very effective means
for the helicopter rescue team to locate the accident, since they
did not want the road designation information but the exact patient
coordinates. It would have been useless to have my equipment if
there had not been someone listening. This proves that there is a
good reason to keep your radios with you and in good operating
condition."
Whiting, who was first licensed in 1976, is the ARES Assistant
Emergency Coordinator for Washington County. A CAD Manager and
Aerial Photographer for Bulloch Brothers in Mesquite, Nevada (he and
Kluxdal are co-workers), he is currently teaching an Amateur Radio
licensing class to 13 prospective hams at the Dixie Regional Medical
Center in St George.
Magee said that before this incident he had never been involved in
an actual emergency. "I have established emergency communications
networks, in particular for the LDS Church in Newbury Park,
California, where I was the Stake Emergency Communications
Coordinator." He told the ARRL:
"Our communications group won the first worldwide test of the system
back in the late 1980s. This is like ARRL Field Day, but involved
mostly LDS members and facilities, then under the name of Mercury
Amateur Radio Association (MARA) <http://www.mara.net/>.
I feel very pleased in knowing that I had the opportunity to serve
in this rescue incident and that every penny I spent on my system,
radio and antenna was certainly worth it. In these days of extensive
cell phone service and coverage, isn't it satisfying to know that
ham radio can still be of use for public service?"
Website
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through our site. Just contact our Webmaster at jack@jackswebs.com
to arrange for it, no cost to you or us.
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Thanks to those who contributed to this issue of the newsletter.
Mike 502 miket@trsar.org
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