[Elecraft] Ham Radio SW for the Mac Qs

[Jeff Cauhape]

--- Tom Russo <russo@swcp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:31:10PM -0600, Rod N0RC wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > 2) The OS Core of OSX is of course BSD Unix; Has anybody tried running
> > available Unix based radio SW on OSX?
> 
> I have, to date, not been able to run any of the ham radio software for
> "unix"
> on my BSD systems -- I've looked mostly at PSK-31 software myself.  The
> main
> reason is that while I'm a BSD bigot, the lion's share of those who write
> "unix" ham software are linux bigots --- and they are not, as far as I can
> tell, interested in making *portable* code, just code that works.  BSD and
> Linux differ enough at the low level interfaces (sound card, serial ports)
> that it takes a little doing to get the code so that it doesn't make
> assumptions about the system you're on, and take account of the
> differences.
> 
> You could, with enough programming background and time, hack them up to
> work
> on BSD, but it is unlikely that many of the packages will compile and link
> "out of the box."  The good news is that they're all open source, so you
> could, if so inclined, hack on them.
> 
> I've heard gripes from folks in other forums that although you might feed
> back
> your hackage to the maintainers of the packages, odds are good that the
> next
> release will break them all again.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Russo   KM5VY   QRPL #1592   K2#398     http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> Tijeras, NM DM64ux  SOC #236  ICQ#97201722  http://www.qsl.net/~km5vy/
> If I can't make your day a little better, at least I can make it more
> surreal.
>                                                                -- Anmar
> Mirza

Why not re-write it in Java if the original (C?) source is available?
I'd offer to do it, as I now  hava an iMac and will some day soon
complete my  K2. The problem is, that I work  for IBM, and darn
near anything I  create belongs to the Company.

If someone could suggest  how I could write  it for my own use,
and then get it out in public  without  breaking any Intellectual
Property laws, I'm all ears.

Sigh...

Jeff
KG6IND


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