Brian,
Add port replication and NaP3 or Win4K3 and see what happens. Also,
you don't say how you are running Windows, Boot Camp?? And yes, you
should upgrade to Windows 10. It runs faster and more reliably than Win7
and is more secure. It will be upgraded free as new security definitions
are published and bugs fixed. I don't know what you dislike about Win10,
but from my view, Microsoft fixed a whole lot of things like an
incredibly bad GUI from Win8 and has made it easier to roam around and
find things.
73,
Barry
K3NDM
------ Original Message ------
From: "Brian Denley" <b.den...@comcast.net>
To: "Barry LaZar" <k3...@comcast.net>
Cc: "Randy Cook" <k6cr...@gmail.com>; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: 1/5/2016 10:02:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] suggested PC???
My i7 iMac runs Windows 7 as well as OSX. With 32 Gb of memory, I can
run any Windows or Apple applications. I don't have a K3 but the iMac
runs my K2 and FT-950 applications with no issues whatsoever. I can
upgrade to Win 10 for free but I dislike it very much.
Brian
KB1VBF
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 5, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Barry LaZar <k3...@comcast.net> wrote:
Randy,
I seriously do not recommend this approach. I have been working
with a friend who has been working on a Mac Mini, actually he has two.
He has been trying to do an integrated station using HRD, FLDIGI, and
a few other things. These are Windows based and he has been using Boot
Camp to get to Windows. He discovered that there are driver issues and
a few other things the prevent easy set up to do what he wants. And to
compound the insult, his second Mac Mini does does not set up like his
first.
Most of the really good software that makes for full integration
easy has been written for a Windows platform. As this is the case, I
suggest an I5 with lots of memory running Windows 10. In the end, this
is cost effective and will keep your blood pressure in bounds. As an
illustration, I run Win4K3 for radio control and spectrum display,
Com0com for port replication, Hamradio Deluxe for general logging and
uploading to eQSL and LoTW, CW Skimmer. I switch out CW Skimmer for
FLDIGI, and during a contest, I use N1MM+ in place of HRD. My
experience has taught me to not use an Apple base system for this
situation. However, there are other collections of S/W, but I expect
the integration my not be as easy.
73,
Barry
K3NDM
------ Original Message ------
From: "Randy Cook" <k6cr...@gmail.com>
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: 1/5/2016 8:35:48 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] suggested PC???
Consider an Apple Mac. On the Apple website, you can get a iMac or
MacBook Air ‘refurbished’. After years of dealing with viruses, blown
updates, buggy software, etc. on work computers, I come home to a 5
year old MacBook Air machine that just works and will probably run
forever. I like MacLoggerDX for station control/logging, but others
have their favorite.
As to value, I just sold an iMac desktop machine that my son didn’t
need anymore. He is at college and has a laptop. It was 6 years old
and I got 40% of the price I paid new for it on eBay. If it were a 6
year old PC, I would have had to pay a toxic waste fee to get rid of
it.
73
Randy Cook - K6CRC
k6cr...@gmail.com
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