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

[John Price]

I bought a BIFO  USB810 USB/Serial cable that was recommended by the
folks at Uni_Trac for use with there sat interface. It has worked
flawlessly
for all comport connections. I use it with a DB9 nul modem to
interface my FT-847 and my Acer laptop XP via USB and have had no
issues. The Blue Computer converter cable I was trying to use before
would not work. It came with driver disk for XP and I downloaded the
Vista driver from there website. It works fine on my vista machine
too. You might try this cable. It might solve your problems. Good luck
with it.

73's <<John



On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Mark Lunday, WD4ELG <mlunday at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Interesting.  My problems are ALSO restricted to my USN to Serial interface.
> The one serial port on each computer works flawlessly.
>
> Mark Lunday
> WD4ELG
> wd4elg at arrl.net
> http://wd4elg.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of Bill Dzurilla
> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:32 AM
> To: n3tl at bellsouth.net
> Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: HRD Sat Tracking program - slow?
>
>
> Tim,
>
> The USB-serial interface seems to be the weak link in almost all
> computer-to-radio programs I've seen.  Could you tell me exactly which
> interface you are using with the Acer, where you bought it, and, if not plug
> and play, where did you get the driver?
>
> We bought one of those little Acer notebooks but are not using it for ham
> radio.  I thought it was a great deal for $350 and now I'm seeing them for
> as low as $250.
>
> 73, Bill NZ5N
>
>
> --- On Sat, 4/11/09, n3tl at bellsouth.net <n3tl at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> From: n3tl at bellsouth.net <n3tl at bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: HRD Sat Tracking program - slow?
>> To: billdz.geo at yahoo.com
>> Cc: "Bill Dzurilla" <billdz.geo at yahoo.com>, amsat-bb at amsat.org
>> Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 7:49 AM
>>  Hey Bill and all,
>>
>>
>> I have version 4.1, I believe it's build 1895 (it's
>> on another computer), and it's very plainly labeled as a
>> Beta. I presumed in deciding to download it that there could
>> be some issue.
>>
>>
>> Here, however, there have been none - at all. It opens,
>> runs (including Google Earth), does everything smoothly and
>> without even the slightest problem.
>>
>>
>> As mentioned, I'm running it on an Acer Aspire One
>> Netbook, which has an Atom processor and XP home edition.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 73 to all,
>>
>> Tim - N3TL -------------- Original message from Bill
>> Dzurilla <billdz.geo at yahoo.com>: --------------
>>
>>
>> > Thanks for the replies.  I have been playing with Sat
>> Track all day, using a Lenovo T61 laptop running Windows XP
>> Pro connected to an IC-7000, in Single Radio mode.  It
>> appears that there are issues with Sat Track even with this
>> OS.  Unlike with Vista, everything opens quickly and it
>> never uses even close to 100%
>> > of memory.
>> > However, the program immediately freezes and becomes
>> non-responsive if I click on Google Earth.  More
>> importantly, it sometimes becomes non-responsive when I
>> click on TX, and the radio stays on transmit until I close
>> the program.  Also, sometimes the frequencies get mixed up.
>> It will transmit on the downlink
>> > frequency or receive on the uplink frequency.
>> > Is the Sat Track beta "technology preview"
>> still buggy or am I doing something
>> > wrong?
>> >
>> > 73, Bill NZ5N
>> >
>> >
>> >
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