retired my Pentium III 800 MHz computer that was my EchoLink VOIp box

Well I have retired my Pentium 3 that was my voiceover IP machine for echolink. The other day there was a power fluctuation that caused some files to get corrupted on the hard drive. So I figured today was a good day to go ahead and retire the old machine it's been running for I'm going to say that that machine's been running somewhere between 13 and 15 years as my echo link machine. So I have replaced it, with a core 2 duo 4 gigahertz processor. With 4 gigs of RAM and running Windows 10. I actually had fun playing with Windows 10 because the Windows firewall has a lot of things turned on by default that I had to turn off. So as far as that goes it should be fairly locked down and is running echolink and hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will go ahead and wire the vertex VXR 7000U into the place where the radio is now. And that will put me back on as a repeater which is what I had up for quite a while. Well now the only thing that is left is wiring up the vertex repeater and the repeater will be back on the air it's been a long time since I've had the repeater on the air been running UHF simplex for several years. And that's all been on UHF actually moved to UHF about 16 17 years ago. Before that my echo link repeater was on 1.2 gigs for quite a while and I had a 1.2 gig mobile and several handhelds that I used around the neighborhood and that worked really well on 1.2 gigs not much range because 1.2 gigs losses are very high for feedline. So we did run that for I don't know probably 3 or 4 years maybe 5 years on 1.2 gigs previous to that it was on UHF on 70 cm ham band. So it was on UHF since going back to the mid 1990s, and it's been on various frequencies over the years when I was in Tampa and out in Springfield Missouri and a few other places. Have always enjoyed it then on UHF because there is not as much co-adjacent channel stations to deal with. so we had fun with echolink on UHF over the years, and the predecessors to echolink that we have used which was I link and also a program before that that was called iPhone and that software is what we started with originally before we got involved into iLink. And so as far as echo link goes it's been pretty straightforward I've had very very little problems with hardware and software and I've had very little problems with radios that being said the issue that most people have is trying to put a ham radio in place where a heavy duty repeater or a high-powered mobile that was cut back power wise would suffice. So anyway this is just a brief introduction and explanation of what we have done and now we're on UHF but also we've been having a little bit of an experiment with things from time to time I do hook up a radio that is set for a.m. mode on the repeater frequency and sometimes even played with a single side band. So we have done some experimentation and we do occasionally from time to time so if you do listen locally and you do hear my repeater on 440-050 just remember it's either simplex or it's an offset of 5 megahertz positive anyway if you hear it chime in let me know 73s d e from KD 4WOV