From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: January 4, 2009 2:12:44 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] DMK21BF04 expired?

Thanks for the reply, Alberto - Yes, [sigh} I tested with several cables.

Alan

On Jan 4, 2009, at 3:57 PM, albe albo wrote:

Hi Alan,

i guess you used the same firewire cable to do the test on both cameras.

Once i had big problems with my  DMK (including not to be detected) but it was the cable.

I couldn't believe that because the firewire cables seem even to much oversized and strong but (very luckily) it was the cable i used since one year with no problems.

Anyway i think that you already did this test.

Regards

Alberto

PS: i put some images (both Moon and DSO) on the following site:

http://www.makina.it/SAA/

From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Cc: macastronomer@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2009 8:23:45 PM

Subject: [Astro_IIDC] DMK21BF04 expired?

Hi all,

I got up early this morning to have a go at saturn and discovered that my trusty DMK21BF04 seems to have passed away. No auto-launch of iChat when I connected it and AstroIIDC failed to find a camera connected. The 41AF02 camera worked normally. I expect that this is a service issue with TIS, but thought I would post a message here just in case anyone has had a similar experience.

thanks and best wishes,

Alan