[TowerTalk] [ct-user] CT on Vista - any hope of doing this quickly?

[Roger (K8RI)]

john at kk9a.com wrote:
> I wonder why so many people respond to out of topic posts.
>   
As much of this pertains to station control plus logging and in my case 
rotator, it's probably pretty close to On Topic when looked at as a whole.
I think a more pertinent question might be why does amateur radio keep 
using antiquated programs and hardware? The CT program claims to be 
cutting edge, but that is on a page that was last updated 11 years ago.  
I would think some one would update it to either Visual Basic or Visual 
C++ compiled on XP, Vista, and Win 7 just to be safe that would work 
with present day hardware.  I had to do rewrite an old Pascal database 
search and entry program for a large organization a few years back, but 
I had the source code to work from.

 My rotator uses a serial port, not USB. With 5 computes I don't have 
one with a serial port.  Now there are USB to serial converters, but 
using one is risky. I took out the whole USB bridge system on a 
motherboard using one.  That was expensive.  My amp and rig interfaces 
have a hard wired serial to USB cable, but the rotator is strictly 
serial.  I do have some 4-port serial PCI cards that I've not gotten to 
work yet<sigh>

73

Roger (K8RI)