[Elecraft] win 7 32/64 bit

[Tommy Alderman]

This is probably the first time (and quite possibly the last time) I will
have to disagree with Don's advice!

I built my own PC (all 5 of them) and just about as soon as Win 7 came out,
I purchased and loaded Win 7 Professional 64-bit op-system on my PC.  I
successfully run N1MM Logger, YPlog (a very old program), any K3 or P3
utility, telnet, reverse beacon network, Skimmer,....in other words so far I
have found no ham related programs that will not run under Win 7. There may
be some, but I haven't found any yet. Lot of folks like to run other
operating systems, stating that they are so much better than Windows -- and
that may be so. However if you want to use a PC for your ham station, there
is no true reason to NOT use Windows and doing so allows you to continue to
enjoy using ham programs and not divert a lot of your time trying to find
drivers to make the ham programs to work.

Just my opinion after being in computers since the early 70's.

Tom - W4BQF



-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:05 PM
To: riese-k3djc at juno.com
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] win 7 32/64 bit

  Bob,

There are going to be some ham applications that will not work with Win7 
at all (either 32 bit or 64 bit).

If you have an XP computer available, maybe now is the time to make it 
the dedicated hamshack computer which will free you to use the Win7 
computer for non-ham related work.
I for one will not likely upgrade to Win7 anytime in the near future.  
Not only am I happy with WinXP, but I have 6 computers on the home 
network, and upgrading them would be quite expensive.  I am considering 
an "upgrade" to Ubuntu if I can get Samba to talk both ways between my 
Windows network and the SMB shares, but my ham station computer will 
continue to run Win XP because of the number of ham applications that 
run on it.  If you want to try out Ubuntu, release 10 is now available, 
and there is a "Win Ubuntu" version that you can load as a dual boot 
with the Windows OS.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 1/4/2011 3:50 PM, riese-k3djc at juno.com wrote:
> Gang
>
> looking to do an upgrade and they tell me that win 7 is finally working
> so my question is will the non commercial programs do OK with win 7/64
> bit
> ,,, argo et all. FLDIGI and other uhh   ham software. Should I stick wit,
> win 7 32 bit  ??
>
> Bob K3DJC
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