[FARC] Digital Problems

[Kirk Talbott]

Is anyone out there doing Packet, RTTY, or PSK31 with Windows Vista Home Premium?  If you are I would like to know what digital interface you are using, what USB/Serial adapter you are using, and what soundcard applications you are using.

I recently got a new Dell computer with Windows Vista Home Premium as the operating system and the following problems occurred which rendered all my digital Ham applications inoperable:

My Belkin USB/Serial adapter cable driver does not work on Windows Vista Home Premium.  This prevents me from using my Kantronics KPC-3 Plus TNC or the internal TNC included with my Kenwood TS-2000 radio.  The KPC-3 Plus TNC is no longer in the product line of Kantronics and is no longer supported by Kantronics.

The driver for my West Mountain Rigblaster Plus digital interface does not work on Windows Vista Home Premium.

Windows Vista Home Premium will not install correctly any of the Ham application soundcard programs, MMTTY, WinPSK, MixW, Digipan, et. al., which were included with the Rigblaster Plus digital interface.  The error I receive on installation is "Cannot locate a soundcard."  The brand new Dell computer I have came with Realtek High Definition Audio so I assume this is the soundcard.  In any event, the programs that came on the Rigblaster Plus software library CD won't work with or can't recognize the Realtek soundcard.  

Windows Vista Home Premium does not have a terminal emulator program, like Windows Hyperterminal on Windows XP, so I cannot run Packet on Windows Vista.  I thought maybe I could use AIRMAIL to run Packet in "Dumb Terminal" mode which I had done on Windows XP but AIRMAIL is not compatible with Windows Vista.  

So again, if anyone out there is running Ham digital soundcard applications on Windows Vista Home Premium I'd like to know what you're running and how you're doing it.  And right off the get go, no, I do not want to run a dual-boot, multi-operating system configuration on my computer just to run old Ham digital soundcard apps.  

73
KB3ONM
Kirk









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