Jon, I have been running an ACER Aspire One ZG5, 1.6 GHz Atom, 1 GB ram refurb I picked up on Tiger Direct for $200 about 6 mo ago. I've been running all the latest vs of NBEMS/FLDIGI with a USB Signalink and have never even had a hickup. I run weekly nets on MT63 2k long with this setup and also take the rig on a lot of field trips where I run BPSK31 to MT63 and everything in between.
BTW, netbooks are the way to go for emcomm. My 9 cell batt gives me a solid 5 hours op time (med duty cycle) before I have to go to another power source. I have a 33AH gel cell for the little puter and my FT-817nd that would take me out for about 48 hours with a medium duty cycle. I used to think of the 817 as a play toy but with my 87' long wire and Dentron Jr tuner I'm solid on 75m phone, 80m digi and both phone and digi on 40m... the bread and butter HF bands for emcomm. -Dave, KB3FXI --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "JonP" <jpere...@...> wrote: > > In the 'Good USB Soundcard' thread, someone was asking about using netbooks > with digital modes. > > I've been testing digital modes with a couple of different netbook computers > from Acer and HP using fldigi, DM-780 (version 4.x), and DM-780 (v5.x). All > were running Win XP. > > The netbooks worked well with a Signalink USB and fldigi as well as DM-780 > (v4.x). > > HOWEVER, I found that I needed to upgrade the netbooks from 1GB to 2GB of > memory for them to work well with the RIGblaster PlugNPlay and RIGblaster > nomic. Before I upgraded, the computer had a tendency to lock up in receive. > Once I upgraded, the computers worked well with the RIGblasters. > > I've tested with PSK-31 and PSK-63, Contestia (various), DominoEX (various), > MFSK (various), MT63 (various), Feld Hell, Olivia (various), and Throb > (various). I've also tested with NBEMS using MFSK and DominoEX without > problem. > > I have not been happy using the netbooks with DM-780 v5.x. It seems to be > because v5.x requires running HRD AND the separate logbook program AND the IP > Server in order to get the logbook and real-time call letter identification > (DM-780 v4.x didn't require all of that overhead). I've noticed a tendency > for the netbooks to hang for at least a couple of seconds every so often. > > By the way, if I'm misinterpreting the need to run HRD AND the logbook AND > the IP server in v5.x in order to get a logbook and the real-time > identification, someone please tell me. > > Jon, KB1QBZ >
