[Elecraft] suggested PC???

[Barry LaZar]

Brian,
     Add port replication and NaP3 or Win4K3 and see what happens. Also, 
you don't say how you are running Windows, Boot Camp?? And yes, you 
should upgrade to Windows 10. It runs faster and more reliably than Win7 
and is more secure. It will be upgraded free as new security definitions 
are published and bugs fixed. I don't know what you dislike about Win10, 
but from my view, Microsoft fixed a whole lot of things like an 
incredibly bad GUI from Win8 and has made it easier to roam around and 
find things.

73,
Barry
K3NDM

------ Original Message ------
From: "Brian Denley" <b.denley at comcast.net>
To: "Barry LaZar" <k3ndm at comcast.net>
Cc: "Randy Cook" <k6crcus at gmail.com>; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 1/5/2016 10:02:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] suggested PC???

>My i7 iMac runs Windows 7 as well as OSX.  With 32 Gb of memory, I can 
>run any Windows or Apple applications.  I don't have a K3 but the iMac 
>runs my K2 and FT-950 applications with no issues whatsoever.  I can 
>upgrade to Win 10 for free but I dislike it very much.
>
>Brian
>KB1VBF
>Sent from my iPad
>
>>  On Jan 5, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Barry LaZar <k3ndm at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Randy,
>>     I seriously do not recommend this approach. I have been working 
>>with a friend who has been working on a Mac Mini, actually he has two. 
>>He has been trying to do an integrated station using HRD, FLDIGI, and 
>>a few other things. These are Windows based and he has been using Boot 
>>Camp to get to Windows. He discovered that there are driver issues and 
>>a few other things the prevent easy set up to do what he wants. And to 
>>compound the insult, his second Mac Mini does does not set up like his 
>>first.
>>
>>     Most of the really good software that makes for full integration 
>>easy has been written for a Windows platform. As this is the case, I 
>>suggest an I5 with lots of memory running Windows 10. In the end, this 
>>is cost effective and will keep your blood pressure in bounds. As an 
>>illustration, I run Win4K3 for radio control and spectrum display, 
>>Com0com for port replication, Hamradio Deluxe for general logging and 
>>uploading to eQSL and LoTW, CW Skimmer. I switch out CW Skimmer for 
>>FLDIGI, and during a contest, I use N1MM+ in place of HRD. My 
>>experience has taught me to not use an Apple base system for this 
>>situation. However, there are other collections of S/W, but I expect 
>>the integration my not be as easy.
>>
>>  73,
>>  Barry
>>  K3NDM
>>
>>  ------ Original Message ------
>>  From: "Randy Cook" <k6crcus at gmail.com>
>>  To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>>  Sent: 1/5/2016 8:35:48 PM
>>  Subject: [Elecraft] suggested PC???
>>
>>>  Consider an Apple Mac. On the Apple website, you can get a iMac or 
>>>MacBook Air ‘refurbished’. After years of dealing with viruses, blown 
>>>updates, buggy software, etc. on work computers, I come home to a 5 
>>>year old MacBook Air machine that just works and will probably run 
>>>forever. I like MacLoggerDX for station control/logging, but others 
>>>have their favorite.
>>>  As to value, I just sold an iMac desktop machine that my son didn’t 
>>>need anymore. He is at college and has a laptop. It was 6 years old 
>>>and I got 40% of the price I paid new for it on eBay. If it were a 6 
>>>year old PC, I would have had to pay a toxic waste fee to get rid of 
>>>it.
>>>
>>>  73
>>>
>>>  Randy Cook - K6CRC
>>>  k6crcus at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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