I had a number of problems with the system. It booted fine. I got both programs running.
I have a Rigblaster Plug & Play which is a USB serial port. I could not determine what serial port that would be to setup the C-IV for my Icom. I needed that for PTT. I also tried to follow the directions for setting up their rig control but (1) where is $HOME/.<something>? I opened the file viewer, clicked home but saw nothing that looked like that directory. I could see no input. This is a laptop and I only have mike input. I could generate output from the sound card so I think the sound card was found okay. I decided to pass on this for right now and switch back to Windows. This is the first use of the Rigblaster since I got arrived on Wednesday. It is working under Vista using DM780 and HRD. It is neat using the C-IV to control the rig! The only hassle is that the mike input is to hot so overdrives the sound card. Guess I need to put a pot to allow adjusting it. Since this is my first digital experience I do not know what signals I am hearing to select the digital mode. I did listen to a PSK-31 QSO. But while I can hear and see other signals I cannot get them to decode. Rud K5RUD
