Navigating can be such a pain when going from xp to vista. Both worlds have there plus and minus properties and I am not advocating or bashing either. Just happen to use em and other operating systems, and I am glad to share that experience.
In Vista and using the default Vista Control Panel: =============== To Manage / View your System Hardware so you can see what your com ports are: Control Panel Additional Options Device Manager View hardware and devices Now you will have the Device Manager panel and will see a com port selection 'if' you have any com ports active. Open the com port icon and plug in and unplug your Rigblaster Plug & Play. You will see the com port and info come and go with that activity. (Please note: the usb ports on your laptop will have a com port number assigned to them in Vista that will not match with the same com port number if that same laptop boots with xp. I have a dual boot xp/vista so was surprised to see that ...hi hi) Don forget you can change com port properties including com port assigned number if you want to. =============== In Vista and using the default Vista Control Panel: To Manage your Sound Options navigate the following - Control Panel Additional Options Hardware and Sound Sound Icon Gives you access to all your sound options. Under 'Change system sounds' you will find under the Recording tab the Microphone Icon. Double click that Icon and you will have the Microphone Properties panel. Under custom you can enable / disable Microphone Boost (I havent had to do that on my two vista laptops, they are enabled) Of course Levels tab lets you set the Microphone volume level. ============ Or: Choose Classic View in the Control Panel, and you will have the XP control panel icons you might be more comfortable navigating around with. Dont forget to have the Rigblaster Plug & Play drivers installed for Vista. 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ HFN Pilot Station for ALE http://hflink.net/qso/ ----- Original Message ----- From: k5rud To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 12:21 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: NBEMS HF testing frequency suggestion 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
