[ct-user] re CAT CT FT-1000mp

[Gary Yantis]

George --
As a long-time subscriber to this reflector and a satisfied user of CT I
would say a high percentage of observed problems with CT originate from the
attempted use of CT in a Windows shell instead of straight DOS.  The CT
manual does recommend running CT in straight DOS but it would be better if,
on the cover in large letters, it said NEVER, EVER run CT in a Windows
shell.  That would save many hams a lot of grief and aggravation.  To those
that berate CT because of this -- in my opinion it's the all-around best
contest program but nothing can be 100% the way you want it every time,
including CT.  To those that run CT in a windows shell and NEVER have a
problem and can't understand why others do -- you are truly blessed (and
probably have unused IRQs as well as no Windows programs silently running in
the background that can and will unexpectedly conflict with CT and lock your
screen at the worst possible times).

You have no mouse in DOS because your PC is not loading a DOS mouse driver
after you exit Windows and go to DOS.  A mouse in DOS to move/open/close CT
windows is handy.  Check your mouse driver software.  It may have a DOS
version there too that you can install.  If not, there are generic DOS
drivers available free on the Internet. Or perhaps your Windows mouse
software will work in DOS as-is and only needs to be added to your
autoexec.bat file as a commmand (or you can manually load it after you get
to DOS but before you start CT).  To run other programs (propagation, DX
spotting, etc) while using CT, I use another computer.  You can buy old, but
working, computers these days at computer swap meets for next to nothing.
Put CT on the old, cheap PC and save the Pentium for all the other
multitasking Windows programs.  I rarely use it now but, as an extra backup
computer in a CT network, I have CT loaded on an old 386 laptop with 4 Mb of
memory and it performs flawlessly.  It wouldn't bring $100 at a sale and
won't run Windows 95/98, but it's fine for CT.

Glad things are going well for you now.

73
Gary, W0TM
www.w0tm.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ct-user@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-ct-user@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Geovincent@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 3:40 PM
To: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu; ct-user@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [ct-user] re CAT CT FT-1000mp



TNX to everyone who tried to help me get my 1000MP working with CT 9.48.
I finally resolved the problem. First I created 2 files, ldcttsr.bat and
uldcttsr.bat

These are my settings for COMTSR1 -P1 -B4800 -I4 -A3f8 -N82 -XON

Everything now works as it should. The main problem was trying to run CT
from
the DOS prompt in Windows 98. If I exit Windows 98 and restart the computer
in the DOS mode everything works as it should. WITH THE EXCEPTION that my
mouse arrow does not work to close windows in CT once opened and I can no
longer refer to other programs that I like to use for gray line and
propagation. I LIKE MULTITASKING. But, at least for now everything works for
contest logging with the 1000MP. Maybe the Windows version of CT will once
again allow me to multitask.

Again, THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!

TNX ES 73,
George KF3BE

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