Excellent software!
I received NA in the mail about a week before the NA CW sprint. As the
contest demons would have it, it took me until 2 days before the contest to
install and bang on the software.
My setup is as follows -
Computer - 486dx33 svga, 8mb, 540mb hd
Radio - Icom 765
tnc - mfj1278
Communications & stuff -
CW from com1, irq4, i/o 3f8 (homebrew cable)
TNC on com2, irq3, i/o 2f8, 4800/8/n/1
Radio on com3, irq5, i/o 3e8, 1200 baud (homebrew CI-V iface)
Ethernet board (ne2000) on irq 11, i/o 300
Results -
Everything installed fine and ran beautifully. The only "anomalies" I ran into
were
an occasional flash of the "OUT OF CONTEST BAND" message when tuning
the 765, and a 2 second decrement of the clock that seemed to occur right at
program start up... neither affected operation. I was even running my Novell
peer to peer networking (NWLite 1.1), and loaded NA from my other computer
without any problem (although this serves no real purpose - to the best of my
knowledge NO contest logging program networks with Novell).
And oh yeah... practice mode, as well as the ALT-V cw speed features are nice!
Just found out about them while reading the manual today (c'mon - you didn't
think I read it before the contest!).
I'm happy.... Rich
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Rich Dailey - KA8OKH <ka8okh@som-uky.campus.mci.net>
Somerset Electronics Co. - Somerset, KY
Expert repair on all major brands of CATV line/headend, & TVRO equipment.
Opinions expressed here are of my own unique design.
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