[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Lizeth Norman
: Lizeth Norman normanliz...@gmail.com To: Philip Jenkins n4hf.phi...@gmail.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 10:55 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? None. Pick you poison. Satpc32 crashes using all operating systems. Good for an hour or so

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread gordonjcp
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:37:13PM -0400, Philip Jenkins wrote: I'm in the process of buying a very low-end refurbished PC for use at Field Day and at a 10 day local fair this Fall to demonstrate satellite operating. All that this PC will be used for is running packet software and SatPC32 in

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Philip Jenkins
Oops, I meant to say gpredict, not xastir. On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Philip Jenkins n4hf.phi...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for the replies. I do have a Win 7-64 machine with 4GB RAM as my main PC; I've just never used the 32 bit version and wanted to see if I needed to avoid it. I

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread gordonjcp
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:33:18AM -0400, Philip Jenkins wrote: The refurbs are pretty cheap, so I may get two and install XP on one and some flavor of Linux on the other (I'm the most familiar with Ubuntu (but that isn't saying much), but open to suggestions.) Does Linux still support serial

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Hector, CO6CBF
-boun...@amsat.org] En nombre de Jim Jerzycke Enviado el: sábado, 18 de mayo de 2013 1:13 Para: amsat-bb@amsat.org Asunto: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? Same here. I've had it running on XP and Win 7 64-bit for WEEKS at a time and _never_ had a crash. Jim KQ6EA On 05/18

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Pat McGrath
Philip Where do you obtain the refurbed machines? Pat Ka6tya -Original Message- From: Philip Jenkins [mailto:n4hf.phi...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:33 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? Thanks for the replies. I

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Art McBride
-Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Hector, CO6CBF Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:56 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? Hello to all! I have an old desktop PC dedicated to ham

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Greg D
And it's free. And that includes not having to pay for anti-virus software on top of paying for the O/S (though in this case apparently Win 7 is already there), or reboot for the ever-coming patches. And even if you use the free AV software, it still takes up valuable CPU and memory resources,

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Erich Eichmann
[mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Hector, CO6CBF Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:56 AM To:amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? Hello to all! I have an old desktop PC dedicated to ham radio ( 1 GHz Pentium CPU, 256 MB of RAM and Win XP

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread James Luhn
I had numerous crashes with satPC32 until I followed the suggestion of several here on this list. What solved my crash issues was the replacement of the internal serial to USB adapter with a serial IC and then use an external USB to serial adapter. Since I have made this simple mod I have not

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Jim Jerzycke
The entire time I've been running SatPC32, I've been using a Keyspan 4-port USB-to-serial converter. I run my FT-847, my Fox Delta rotor interface, and my HP Z3801 Timebase/GPS clock without ANY crashes. People may complain that these adapters cost too much, and then they buy multiple cheap

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread Tony Langdon
On 19/05/13 12:33 AM, Philip Jenkins wrote: Thanks for the replies. I do have a Win 7-64 machine with 4GB RAM as my main PC; I've just never used the 32 bit version and wanted to see if I needed to avoid it. I'd only use the 32 bit version on a machine with 4GB RAM. The amount of RAM you have

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-18 Thread David Giles
Hello Philip, I use SatPC32 using VMWARE. The XP OS is running as a guest on my Linux PC. Serial ports for radio/antenna work but there is no driver for a parallel port. It might take a bit of effort to set up but I can run just about anything using Windows as just another process under

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-17 Thread Lizeth Norman
None. Pick you poison. Satpc32 crashes using all operating systems. Good for an hour or so. Then you get an OLE FEHER error. Tried this over all operating systems (xp, win7, win8) Grab a pc from the kerb and load up xp. cheap and simple. As many problems as satpc32 has, it's far and away better

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-17 Thread George Henry
: Friday, May 17, 2013 10:55 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? None. Pick you poison. Satpc32 crashes using all operating systems. Good for an hour or so. Then you get an OLE FEHER error. Tried this over all operating systems (xp, win7, win8) Grab a pc from

[amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?

2013-05-17 Thread Jim Jerzycke
. George, KA3HSW - Original Message - From: Lizeth Norman normanliz...@gmail.com To: Philip Jenkins n4hf.phi...@gmail.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 10:55 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? None. Pick you poison. Satpc32 crashes