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

[John Kemker]

I'm using HamRadio Deluxe connected to my Kenwood TS2000 and an Idiom 
Press rotor card for my Yaesu G1000SDX.  My serial ports are both coming 
off an IOGear dual-port USB-RS232 converter.  I'm running Windows XP 
64-bit.  No problems with the serial ports whatsoever.

Cheaper USB-RS232 converters are problematic.  Mine cost under $30 total 
at Fry's. 

--JohnK
73 de W5NNH
10X 75371/M&M 117/SMIRK 6185/Six Club 285/TRA 2499/Norcross 228 F&AM




Richard M. Gillingham wrote:
> That's what I've done.  I replaced my older computer about a year ago with a 
> new one.  I had it loaded with XP Pro Svc Pk 3 and installed a 4 port serial 
> PCI card.  It works flawlessly with all thequipment and with my rotor using 
> the Idiom Press interface.  I'd had problems using the usb/rs232 dongles.
>
> If you're using a laptop, you'll have to figure something else.
>
> Best luck
> Gil, W1RG
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>
> To: <john at kk9a.com>
> Cc: <TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [ct-user] CT on Vista - any hope of doingthis 
> quickly?
>
>
>   
>> 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)
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