That's what I've done. I replaced my older computer about a year ago with a
new one. I had it loaded with XP Pro Svc Pk 3 and installed a 4 port serial
PCI card. It works flawlessly with all thequipment and with my rotor using
the Idiom Press interface. I'd had problems using the usb/rs232 dongles.
If you're using a laptop, you'll have to figure something else.
Best luck
Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
To: <john@kk9a.com>
Cc: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [ct-user] CT on Vista - any hope of doingthis
quickly?
>
>
> 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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