There is a request for K3/KX3 support in Chirp. I would start with that code and contribute support.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/248 wunder K6WRU CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ On Feb 12, 2015, at 1:41 AM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, there is a gap in the market for a Macintosh memory manager for the > KX3/K3. > > Perhaps Don Agro the author of MacLoggerDX at Dog Park Software may consider > adding it to his excellent free MacMemoriesManager program, though I note he > has discontinued it, so probably not unfortunately. > > http://www.dogparksoftware.com > > OFF TOPIC ( stop now if you could care less) > > When I get some time I might look at how difficult it would be to do > something myself. I have used Xojo (formerly REALbasic) to develop cross > platform Macintosh, Windows and sometimes Linux software. I note that the > Elecraft utilities are also written on that same IDE., which makes sense if > you want to quickly develop for more than one platform. > > You generally find that software for amateur radio gets written by > individuals who have some piece of equipment themselves, but find there is no > software to do what they want available on their chosen computer platform and > they end up writing it themselves by necessity. > > That is how I ended up writing software to support Mac HP GPS Control (all > the good names had gone) for the Z3801A time and frequency standard, it was > later expanded to include other variants of the same thing that I did not > have myself (much harder to debug with no hardware to test on). I was > surprised to find there was a small worldwide market for such a specialised > thing. > > So, in order to get someone to write this, you need to find someone that has > a desire to write it for themselves, namely someone with a love of Macintosh > computers and who possesses the KX3 and of course has the spare time to do > it. It is a labour of love, not a commercial endeavour. > > Anyone could do it, I have no formal training in software writing, apart from > a week in FORTRAN with punched cards on a terminal in 1972 when I never even > saw the computer, only the green and white line printer error messages the > next day. Nearly put me off computing for life. > > It wasn't until the era of the personal computer that I became interested, > first with the Acorn Atom when I wrote a Moon Tracking program which has been > modified over the years from an early beginning to run on the Macintosh and > Windows PC. > > > 73 > > David Anderson GM4JJJ > >> On 12 Feb 2015, at 03:03, Joshua Gould <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> As I'm tuning around the bands I keep finding frequencies that I would like >> to place into memories with tags. I've always found the easiest way to do >> this was via a computer. I know that there is a memory manager for the K3 >> and KX3 for Windows, but my VM is kind of squirlly so I'm looking for >> something that can manage the memory in the KX3 natively. >> >> >> 73, >> Joshua Gould >> K8WXA >> EM89pn >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
