Hi Paul, Seems a very long time ago since we used to work on 10GHz!
I have been using Linrad and Winrad for quite a few years now for a lot of my monitoring and weak signal work from home on all bands, particularly 50 / 70MHz, but right up to 24GHz with various SoftRock receivers and my homebrew transverters. I only really found out by accident that the other group had been set up, and had wondered why there was a lack of postings on this one, i.e. not even any notification of the release of the new version! I have been having a lot of fun recently and in contact a lot with Fred PE0FKO, who has been kind enough to let me do some testing of new versions of his SoftRock AVR firmware, which I really appreciate. I had actually found the Winrad.org website a few weeks ago, but also had not realised that since Alberto sadly stopped developing the program that this was no longer the forum. I have not seen anything mentioned on this one about it at all, seems deliberate to keep the new one quiet! Once I tried the new version, I fed my finding to Fred as I was not sure if the problems were anything to do with his original supporting dll file or the changes to the program. It was only when he asked me had I seen the postings about it, that I found out the other group existed! You will not find it in any search, the only way to 'join' is by invitation. You need to email Jeffrey (from the Winrad home page) to ask to join. I should have guessed from the 'tone' of the home page and then when I finally managed to join the group, from the type of responses given to questions, sadly what sort of group it has now become. It appears that 'users' are no longer considered worthy of making any contribution, and in order to have any input you must by willing and able to write code for them, otherwise get lost! This attitude says a lot about those now steering the project. Yes, I accept the software is free, and we all are grateful for the contribution all those who have spent considerable time and effort writing and developing the code have made, especially Alberto. The new group now appears to be an 'exclusive club' for the program developers only, and not interested in 'real' Winrad users, their loss I think! I am glad to see there have been a few new postings supporting my opinion of the detrimental change to the way the mouse scroll wheel tuning functions works. The other changes made are great when used with the SoftRock v9.0 / USB control. Needless to say I will not be bothering to make any more postings to the other group, obviously they are not wanted. You know me from old hi!, don tin hat, and prepared to express an opinion! Good to hear from you Paul, 73, Bob G8VOI --- In [email protected], paul widger <paulwidger...@...> wrote: > > > Bob, > > > > Did not realise this group had been superceded by a "secret service" > > type of setup,this does account for the lack of postings. > > > > I have been using Winrad with Perseus SDR as the display is better. > > v1.4.2 is a disaster sad to say, far too many errors etc,sure it has > > been released with minimal testing. > > > > Have reverted to previous release! > > > > Paul G0HNW > > > To: [email protected] > > From: g8voi.reeve...@... > > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:18:28 +0000 > > Subject: [soft_radio] Re: Winrad v1.4.2 with SoftRock v9.0 > > > > Hi all, > > > > For those who have not seen the postings on the 'Winrad' group (which > > you will actually find very hard to locate, as it does not show up in > > any Yahoo group search, and membership is 'by invitation only'), I > > have received some responses to my comments regarding the change in > > the mouse scroll wheel tuning function (which in my opinion is a big > > step backwards). A pity as the other new features are great. > > > > Apparently this is seen as an 'improvement' by the current program > > developers. > > > > In effect I was basically told 'if you do not like it, go and use > > something else'. > > > > It is a pity to see this attitude towards users now, a stark contrast > > to the great work previously done by Alberto (thank you), > > > > 73, Bob G8VOI > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >
