[amsat-bb] Re: HRD Sat Tracking program - slow?

[Mike Ryan]

Also have negative experience with Vista and HRD satellite, but not the luxury of going back to XP. In my case it works, but if I try and control two radios (as it does easily on XP), one updates frequencies for doppler nicely, and the other either not at all, or only once a minute or so.  All I have to do to catch things up is uncheck one or the other radio. 

Not a programmer but perhaps some overhead in controlling the ports? I have serial ports as well as USB converters. Doesnt seem to matter which I use.

SATPC32, by comparison, seems to work fine, but I really like some of the Sat features of HRD and am sad I cant use them anymore.

Mike WB1AAT

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Bill Dzurilla <billdz.geo at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Anyone using the Sat Tracking feature on Ham Radio Deluxe?
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> When I click on New Satellite, CPU usage shoots to 100% and it takes over a minute to display the track of the new sat. Also very slow on several other functions. This can't be normal, is it my computer or is it Vista? Running a new Lenovo desktop with Windows Vista.
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> I tried it with my Windows XP laptop and it worked fine. Darn Vista. Any way to get it working properly with Vista (32 bit version)?
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> Any cure?
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> 73, Bill NZ5N
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