[Elecraft] Memory Management for the KX3 on the Mac

[Rick Prather]

When the Memory Manager first came out it was said that it would be ported
to the Mac soon.  That was about three years ago...
Don't know what happened.

David you bring up an interesting topic.  I am of the opinion that the
ability to run virtual machines (Parallels, Fusion, etc) on the Mac wound
up costing us a lot of good Ham software.  Too often the answer given for
running ham software on the Mac is to run it under Parallels, etc.

If that option wasn't there I bet more talented programmers would have
jumped in and written Mac specific software.

Good news is that I see more and more interest in doing that with new
software such as JT-Bridge being worked on.  Also, Tom DL2RUM is working on
an update to his RUMlog called RUMlogNG.  For the DX'er RUMlog on the Mac
is as close as you can get to DXLabs on the PC.

I hope we see more in the future.  There really are a lot of Hams that run
Macs and would like to stay within OS X  for their software.

Rick
K6LE


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:41 AM, David Anderson <gm4jjj at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I agree, there is a gap in the market for a Macintosh memory manager for
> the KX3/K3.
>
> Perhaps Don Agro the author of MacLoggerDX at Dog Park Software may
> consider adding it to his excellent free MacMemoriesManager program, though
> I note he has discontinued it, so probably not unfortunately.
>
> http://www.dogparksoftware.com
>
> OFF TOPIC ( stop now if you could care less)
>
> When I get some time I might look at how difficult it would be to do
> something myself. I have used Xojo (formerly REALbasic) to develop cross
> platform Macintosh, Windows and sometimes Linux software. I note that the
> Elecraft utilities are also written on that same IDE., which makes sense if
> you want to quickly develop for more than one platform.
>
> You generally find that software for amateur radio gets written by
> individuals who have some piece of equipment themselves, but find there is
> no software to do what they want available on their chosen computer
> platform and they end up writing it themselves by necessity.
>
> That is how I ended up writing software to support Mac HP GPS Control (all
> the good names had gone) for the Z3801A time and frequency standard, it was
> later expanded to include other variants of the same thing that I did not
> have myself (much harder to debug with no hardware to test on). I was
> surprised to find there was a small worldwide market for such a specialised
> thing.
>
> So, in order to get someone to write this, you need to find someone that
> has a desire to write it for themselves, namely someone with a love of
> Macintosh computers and who possesses the KX3 and of course has the spare
> time to do it. It is a labour of love, not a commercial endeavour.
>
> Anyone could do it, I have no formal training in software writing, apart
> from a week in FORTRAN with punched cards on a terminal in 1972 when I
> never even saw the computer, only the green and white line printer error
> messages the next day. Nearly put me off computing for life.
>
> It wasn't until the era of the personal computer that I became interested,
> first with the Acorn Atom when I wrote a Moon Tracking program which has
> been modified over the years from an early beginning to run on the
> Macintosh and Windows PC.
>
>
> 73
>
> David Anderson GM4JJJ
>
> > On 12 Feb 2015, at 03:03, Joshua Gould <jg.k8wxa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As I'm tuning around the bands I keep finding frequencies that I would
> like
> > to place into memories with tags.  I've always found the easiest way to
> do
> > this was via a computer.  I know that there is a memory manager for the
> K3
> > and KX3 for Windows, but my VM is kind of squirlly so I'm looking for
> > something that can manage the memory in the KX3 natively.
> >
> >
> > 73,
> > Joshua Gould
> > K8WXA
> > EM89pn
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