[Elecraft] Re CW Skimmer with Windows 7

[Pete Smith]

Sorry, but this is not correct - Omnirig is a rig-control program that 
VE3NEA uses in all situations where it is his software needs to be able 
to control a transceiver's frequency.  You need other hardware or 
software (such as LP-Bridge) to enable more than one program to talk to 
your radio's RS-232 port.  There is a freeware solution (VSPE by 
Eterlogic) that some people have reported to work satisfactorily with 
Skimmer and various logging programs.  Some Microham interfaces have 
hardware/firmware permitting assignment of two virtual serial ports to 
each radio - I had an MK2R+ and it seemed to work very well.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 8/25/2010 5:47 PM, Steve Ellington wrote:
> OmniRig is a program for sharing the radio with more than one program such
> as CWskimmer and a logging program. Only a few logging programs have the
> capability however. I use LP-Bridge to share CWskimmer, Logger32 and
> Powersdr.
> The skimmer guy, Alex, has other programs that work with OmniRig.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Campbell"<jim at w4bqp.net>
> To:<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re CW Skimmer with Windows 7
>
>
>    
>>   Nick,
>>
>> I installed CW Skimmer again (as administrator) and got the same errors.
>> You were correct that it was OmniRig giving the error. In any event it
>> is now installed.
>>
>> As an aside, what is OmniRig for?
>>
>> Thanks and 72,
>>
>> Jim - W4BQP
>>
>> On 8/25/2010 7:49 AM, VE3EY wrote:
>>      
>>> I had the same problem few days back when I tried installing it on a
>>> laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit).
>>>
>>> I think the problem was not with CW Skimmer but with OmniRig instead
>>> which comes bundled with Skimmer.  At the end of installation it failed
>>> to access two registry keys due to its permissions being too restrictive.
>>>
>>> You could use Sysinternal's Process monitor and filter by the name of
>>> the installer utility and "ACCESS DENIED" while running the install of
>>> the OmniRig and it will find two registry keys in question.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
>>>
>>>
>>> 73,  Nick
>>> ve3ey
>>>
>>>        
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