[amsat-bb] Re: HRD software question

[n3tl@bellsouth.net]

Hey Reid,

Thanks for your note. Using the same package here - V 4.1, Build 1985. 

And yes, you can access Satellite Tracker without connecting radios to it - but you can't connect radios to it without ALSO connecting them to HRD. Therein could lie the problem. 

DM780 is useable without connecting radios to HRD. I routinely do that when I'm working digital modes in HF. 

My only interest in computer connection for Satellite Tracker is Doppler control. I would like to be able to connect directly to it and use it as a "stand-alone" without HRD involved. I believe that could/would solve the issues I experience here.

73,

Tim - N3TL
Athens, Ga. - EM84ha
-------------- Original message from w4upd <updwrb at bristor-assoc.com>: -------------- 


> Which beta version of 4.1 are you using? I found that I had the same 
> problem until 4.1 build 1985. Satellite stuff can be accessed without a 
> rig hooked up. I did find that resources can really get eaten up by HRD 
> when doing satellite stuff. If the description of HRD V5.0 is correct, 
> it may ease up the overhead on computers by not trying to do so many 
> things at once (some of which you may not need). 
> 
> Reid, W4UPD 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> n3tl at bellsouth.net wrote: 
> > Simon and all, 
> > > I have been using V 4.1 Beta for a few months, and my sense is that all of the multitasking HRD requires is taxing the processor on my Acer Aspire One netbook beyond its capacity. I may be wrong about that, but I suspect that's what's 
> going on. 
> > > Simon, please correct me if this is wrong - but I believe that V 4.1 (beta) requires that radios be connected to the main HRD suite, and then also connected to the Satellite Tracker, in order to provide computer control for Doppler 
> tuning. If that is, indeed, the case, I wonder whether it's possible to enable 
> Satellite Tracker's radio-related functions without connection to HRD? I suspect 
> that if I was able to connect my radios directly to Satellite Tracker without 
> using HRD, that the netbook might be able handle the load. 
> > 
> > I enjoy Satellite Tracker very much, but it has locked up my computer at the 
> very worst of times (e.g., just a few seconds before acquisition of AO-7 when I 
> had a schedule with EA8AVI in an attempt to add Africa to my continents-worked 
> list). I chose the netbook for my ham radio use because of its size, and because 
> it was bundled with Windows XP, not Vista. I fear that the decision has me 
> comitted to a computer with a processor that may not have enough muscle to do 
> everything HRD/Satellite Tracker asks it to do. 
> > 
> > Regardless ... thank you so much for all of your work on HRD and Satellite 
> Tracker. HRD is an amazing suite of software. 
> > 
> > 73 to all, 
> > 
> > Tim - N3TL 
> > Athens, Ga. - EM84ha 
> > -------------- Original message from "Simon (HB9DRV)" : 
> -------------- 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> Hi, 
> >> 
> >> I guess it's something I've never really tried - will do so and fix. 
> >> 
> >> Simon Brown, HB9DRV 
> >> www.ham-radio-deluxe.com 
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF" 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> Any idea why, if I select SHOW TRACKS/ALL the prog locks up when Orbitron 
> >>> is capable of displaying the same number (85) of sats without slowing? 
> >>> What is the maximun number we can sensibly display> 
> >>> 
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