john@kk9a.com wrote:
> I wonder why so many people respond to out of topic posts.
>
As much of this pertains to station control plus logging and in my case
rotator, it's probably pretty close to On Topic when looked at as a whole.
I think a more pertinent question might be why does amateur radio keep
using antiquated programs and hardware? The CT program claims to be
cutting edge, but that is on a page that was last updated 11 years ago.
I would think some one would update it to either Visual Basic or Visual
C++ compiled on XP, Vista, and Win 7 just to be safe that would work
with present day hardware. I had to do rewrite an old Pascal database
search and entry program for a large organization a few years back, but
I had the source code to work from.
My rotator uses a serial port, not USB. With 5 computes I don't have
one with a serial port. Now there are USB to serial converters, but
using one is risky. I took out the whole USB bridge system on a
motherboard using one. That was expensive. My amp and rig interfaces
have a hard wired serial to USB cable, but the rotator is strictly
serial. I do have some 4-port serial PCI cards that I've not gotten to
work yet<sigh>
73
Roger (K8RI)
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