[Elecraft] win 7 32/64 bit

[Dave Hachadorian]

Writelog won't drive an LPT Port under Win7/64.  If you need the 
A/B signal or band info, or any of the other LPT stuff, you are 
out of luck.


Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ




-----Original Message----- 
From: Tony Estep
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:22 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] win 7 32/64 bit

<snip> "...so far I have found no ham related programs that will 
not run
under Win 7...."
--------------------
Yep, I have two Win 7 machines and have generally had excellent 
results.
There still are some pieces of hardware (e.g. M-Audio studio 
sound
interfaces) for which the Win 7 drivers either don't exist or 
exist but
don't work. And I do know of one piece of Ham-related software 
that won't
run under Win 7, viz. the Dimension 4 time interface. This is 
used by
weak-signal guys (WSPR, JT65, etc.) to sync the PC to the Bureau 
of
Standards time. Win 7 has a built-in gadget to do it, and 
apparently won't
give other programs access to set the clock. With adequate 
hacking, Vista
can be forced to allow D4 to run, but it was really written for 
XP and
hasn't been updated.

With certain computers, it is not as easy as it sounds to keep 
your clock
accurate to within a fraction of a second, because the on-board 
clock may
drift quite a bit and have to be reset constantly; and 
unfortunately, Win 7
does not have a setting (at least not one I can find) that allows 
the user
to increase the frequency of syncing the clock to a standard.

Anyway, other than the above-mentioned glitches, Win 7 runs fine 
and is IMHO
more likable than XP.

Tony KT0NY
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