[FADCA] RE: WL2K and AirMail Computer requirements

3 Mar 2002 16:03:34 -0800

Rick, Hi. There is my answer. I just sent a note to the reflector in response to Bud's saying I had not heard yet.

Thanks. As I just said in my other note,  I am trying to find out how cheap a ham can be to run Airmail.  I currently have a Windows 95 laptop I use for packet in the car. I will try it and, for vhf/uhf, I would not need the propgation etc.

I would like to work with your and Bud, and whom ever else, to start to use it so we could put the system into operation.

Russ

On Sun, 03 March 2002, "Rick Muething" wrote:

> 
> There was so much activity on the reflector I forgot who asked this!  Anyway
> here is the short answer:
> 
> AirMail works on Win 95 through Win XPPro. It needs only probably 16 Meg of
> memory(Win 95) and a 486 CPU with at least 33 Megahorses. It will be
> sluggish on some operations with that however. Some of the fancy functions
> like Propagation prediction are CPU hogs and will bog down a slow machine
> but are manually initiated so can be avoided. It has also been run on a MAC
> using a PC emulator but of course this is a little sluggish on slower Macs.
> 
> WL2K software needs some horsepower.  Win ME through Win XP Pro (Win ME not
> as stable). At least 64Meg RAM and 300 Mhz Pentium with at least 2G of
> available disc space. Most PMBOs use Win 2000 or Win XP with 128+ meg and
> this is very stable. The database is repaired, compressed and backed up
> daily at each PMBO and the Central server uses redundant RAID drives and
> backup for reliability.
> 
> I will be happy to answer (or redirect if I can't) any questions on WL2K or
> AirMail.
> 
> Rick KN6KB
> 
> 
> 
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