[amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker

Tim Cunningham tim_cunningham at charter.net
Thu Nov 3 14:58:23 PDT 2011


WISP is another Windows program that controlled the Kansas City Tracker ISA 
based card very nicely, if you want to use it in a Windows 95/98 
environment.

Tim - N8DEU


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert McGwier" <rwmcgwier at gmail.com>
To: "Al Ozias" <alozias at copper.net>
Cc: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb at AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:35 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker


> Since it has been a while since these have been up on the list, I want to
> remind folks that this requires an early early early generation slot,
> called an ISA slot.  The drivers for the card are STRICTLY DOS 6.2 and
> earlier interrupt handlers and are zero likely to work on a modern windows
> machine.
>
> If you have an old machine with ISA slots, running DOS,  this board was 
> one
> of the engineering marvels of its time and should still work beautifully 
> on
> Yaesu rotators today. You will need Quiktrak or IT to run it (again, DOS
> computer programs).
>
> Bob
> N4HY
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Al Ozias <alozias at copper.net> wrote:
>
>> Surplus KCT
>>
>>
>>
>> I have at my QTH a Kansas City Tracker board with a printed manual and a
>> copy of the KCT.ZIP file.  The owner of the board, George-WA5KBH, would
>> like to find it a home.  To acquire it contact me (Al-N7EQF) directly by
>> email. The cost of acquiring the item is to  pay for the shipping cost
>> (flat rate priority mail envelope), commit a donation to AMSAT and 
>> promise
>> not to ask me any questions concerning how to install, configure, or
>> operate it (I do not know).  The board is un-tested and may or may not
>> work, no known reason to suspect it's condition.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks - Al - N7EQF
>>
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