[Elecraft] Ham Radio SW for the Mac Qs

[Rod N0RC]

Folks,

The shine on the lure has dulled considerably.

First off the HAM software availability seems quite limited: The best
I found was:

 http://www.ac6v.com/software.htm#MAC

I heard no compelling reasons to want to use any of the Mac software
available.

Also, the new iBooks don't have a serial port, so rig control software
is problematic. There are USB to Serial converters, but success with
those seems mixed.(1)

Finally, by the time I got Mac versions of all the other software I
now use on the PC; (Firewall, Antivirus, text editor(2),
quicken...etc) I'd be out another $500 or more.

No thanks, I'll hold my current position for a while.

73, Rod N0RC


(1) This is also a problem on some WinTel machines. I have a notebook
computer like this. I use Digipan for PSK-31 and drive my rig in VOX
mode, works great.

(2) MS Notepad is not an editor, it is a TOY! TextPad www.textpad.com
and NoteTab www.notetab.com/ are products worthy of the "text editor"
label. (I'm an ex vi and Emacs "power user" ;-)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod N0RC" <rod@n0rc.us>
To: "qrp-l" <qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU>; <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Ham Radio SW for the Mac Qs


> Folks,
>
> I'm feeling the lure of  Mac OSX, perhaps a result of the recent
> "switch" ads. www.apple.com/switch
>
> Well I did a little "Googlen" and see the basics I require are
> available,  "Spectrogram" like packages and PSK-31 software. So it's
> time to dig deeper.
>
> For those whose use Mac's:
>