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eHam Forums / Satellites / RE: Icom9100 and HRD satellite control
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on: June 01, 2012, 08:36:34 PM
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There is a 'now' known bug in the CI-V commands from ICOM for the 9100. ICOM is working on a fix.
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I observed that when the satellite button is pressed on the radio, I am not seeing the appropriate CIV command going to the computer to tell HRD that the satellite mode has been turned on or off. I have referred this issue to engineering. I will advise you with what they tell me.
Fred Varian, WD5ERD
IA Technical Support Representative
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eHam Forums / Company Reviews / RE: W4RT: Buyers Beware
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on: May 29, 2012, 07:20:42 PM
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What a load of crap.
I've known Ralph, Barry and Michael for years and every year we all hang around together. You may not realize how busy people get after Dayton, but yes, they do.
Yes, W4RT is smaller than HRO. AES ETC but they arent a retailer.. they resell stuff to go along with their products. But they are more than Ralph. Mary was there too and Ive known her since she was 11.
If Ralph made a mistake, he will fix it. Im sure he's emailed you back. did you check your spam folder?
All ham radio companies are small. Even us at HRD at only 6 people.. if you want Sears, go to Sears, if you want ham stuff, work with you other hams and BE PATIENT
I'll email Michael and show him this thread, my guess is the return email address you had could have been mispelled or wrong, Ive seen that 100 times in many of the emails I get from hams, and we have to go on a search and destroy to find the right address.
I was there in the beginning with Barry and Ralph started W4RT. Barry came to my office to let me play with the one touch.. that was too cool.
Rick - W4PC
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eHam Forums / Digital / RE: HRD and Packet
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on: April 11, 2012, 08:54:36 PM
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Micahel,
You are correct about NO Packet in HRD. I also believe the new owners of HRD will also elect not to add it.
73 for now de Steve KB6HOH
kb6hoh(AT)comcast(DOT)net
I didnt see you in the meetings....  next time be on time LOL Yes we are going to add packet to Digital Master in a 6.x release. Rick - W4PC |
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eHam Forums / Computers And Software / RE: HRD and QRZ lookup again
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on: November 11, 2011, 02:42:59 PM
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Fred asked me to remove the free callbooks lookups from QRZ and I complied. He made his case about the overhead that QRZ gets from the non XML hits and why the free call lookups were causing issues with the site. This is only with the lookup programs that 'scraped' the site for calls. Fred will be blocking any others that try to 'fix' their programs to scrape the site.
The current free version of HRD will support XML subscription lookup. Version 5.1 will support XML subscription lookups. There will also be support for other sites who's content is free and that will be supported in 5.1.
The bottom line, at the request of Fred LLoyd, QRZ owner, free lookups in HRD to QRZ will not be supported
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eHam Forums / Computers And Software / RE: HRD and QRZ lookup again
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on: November 11, 2011, 01:00:23 PM
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Here's what Fred (QRZ) said when I spoke with him:
It was a routine change of the QRZ database display that caused the
problem. It affected the "free QRZ lookup" users only.
This is the lesson. Any program that depends on the QRZ page layout is
doomed to eventually fail because QRZ reserves the right to alter its page
layout at any time.
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eHam Forums / Computers And Software / RE: Ham Radio Deluxe has been sold
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on: September 30, 2011, 07:53:25 AM
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I've been looking at some options for converting the HRD code to use WxWindows. This would be a cross platform solution. The biggest difference between the O/S's is the user interface. When I was using Visual Studio for the Mac (which had MFC for the Mac) to try do convert the then Pacterm/Pkterm code, the biggest complaint was not that the code didnt work, but it 'looked' like a Windows program on the Mac.
The low level stuff is easy, it's the user interface look and feel that's time consuming.
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eHam Forums / Computers And Software / RE: Beware of upcoming Windows 8
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on: September 23, 2011, 12:19:34 PM
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It is a new OS. MS has a pattern for many years now to make a new OS then tweak it with a new release and then start over. Win2000 was new, XP was a tweak of 2000. Vista was a new direction, Win7 was a tweak. Win8 is a new direction again.
Let's see, Win95... basically the divorce from IBM and OS/2 (just when OS/2 4.0 Warp was getting really good). Win 2000... Not one of their best products XP... Using it on this computer with no plans on upgrading Vista... In another time and another places there would be people "under the sword" for that one. Windows7... Decent, definitely not Vista MS seems to do one right, then wrong, then right, then wrong. I will wait for MS9 or just migrate completely over to whatever version of Android is running at that time (with the desert naming scheme it will probably be "RumCake"). Acutally the genology is DOS -> Windows 1 -> Windows 2 -> Windows 3-> Windows 3.11 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98->Windows Me OS/2 3.0 (not warp) became Windows NT 3.1 after Balmer yelled at the IBM UK guys -> Windows NT 4 -> Windows 2000 - Windows XP -> Windows Vista (yuck) -> Windows 7-> Windows 8 Dave Culter from DEC designed OS/2 3 - Windows NT 3.1 in 1988 after Bill hired him from DEC. |
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eHam Forums / Computers And Software / RE: Ham Radio Deluxe has been sold
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on: September 23, 2011, 10:13:13 AM
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It is absolutely flabbergasting to me how much the N1MM team and AA6YQ do completely for free on N1MM and DX Labs.
I know Dave worked for Rose and IBM for year, and I hope he got a nice package from them.
I spent 22 years building Rational Software, one of whose products was Rational Rose. My development teams also produced Apex (a very sophisticated development environment for Ada that was used to develop the software for the International Space Station, the Canadian Air Traffic Control System, the Boeing 777, and many other aero/defense projects), the Unified Modeling Language (placed into the public domain under the stewardship of the Object Management Group), the Rational Unified Process, ClearCase, ClearQuest, and the Rational Suites. We took the company public in 1994, and drove annual sales north of $800M before selling the company to IBM in 2003. I owed IBM a year, and spent it setting up the Eclipse Foundation, a highly successful open source consortium. I am not retired; I provide software engineering consulting services to several clients, and recently led the successful introduction of wireless electronic voting into a New England Town Meeting. 73, Dave, AA6YQ Nah, never said you were retired, I just IBM, Microsoft and others provide retirement packages which give you income coming in. My ex wife who was a PhD with TVA got one of those.. you get the whole 9 yards, pension, healthcare etc. And that was the same reason I started writing ham software. I didnt see anything well designed and with my years at MSFT, I wanted to do good code for the hams. |
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eHam Forums / Computers And Software / RE: Ham Radio Deluxe has been sold
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on: September 23, 2011, 06:26:09 AM
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I think of some of guys have retirement incomes from companies they worked for that gives them living expenses. I know Dave worked for Rose and IBM for year, and I hope he got a nice package from them. Dave writes good code, as does Tom (N1MM). N1MM is very well designed and its closed source ... I'm 51, still working. Hams have been good to me over the years, but when 2008 hit, all my retirement savings was GONE in a flash. My dad is 73 and still working... so Im looking foward to at least another good 20 or so years. This is my 30th year as a ham. Something Im very proud of too. |
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eHam Forums / Computers And Software / RE: Ham Radio Deluxe has been sold
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on: September 22, 2011, 06:22:29 PM
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In the press release posted by W4PC et al a few days ago, Simon HB9DRV is quoted as saying
"After many years writing the HRD software it's necessary to take a break and hand the whole project over to another team," said Simon Brown (HB9DRV). "The support effort required has become more than I can realistically manage – with many thousands of users, new radios and other hardware appearing all the time and unexpected changes to the infrastructure used by HRD such as QRZ.com I no longer have any time at all for other projects. "
I have not discussed this with Simon, but my suspicion is that this transaction had more to do with finding a good home for HRD than gaining a financial windfall. For all we know, the sale price could have been a negative number; it wouldn't be the first time that's happened in the software business.
It wasn't a negitive number at all . And yes, that's why he sold it. He wanted it to continue. Dave, as always, you are a pretty savy guy. The others just assume alot.. |
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