[Ham-Mac] What windows software are you using

[Chuck Counselman]

At 9:06 PM -0600 3/21/02, Steve Muncy wrote:
>I often hear that hams who are Mac owners use Virtual PC to run 
>Windows ham programs. Is this because (1) the windows programs are 
>better?

No.

>(2) equivalent programs are not available for Macs?

Yes.



>What commonly used ham programs on Windows have no Mac equivalent 
>that would REQUIRE the use of Windows to serve that function?

The one I've used are:

Roy Lewallen's antenna modeling programs ELNEC and EZNEC (but then I 
graduated to NEC-2 and then NEC-4, both of which I compiled to run on 
my G3 Mac);

Roger Hedin's Great Circle Mapping program (I still use this occasionally); and

the U.S. Dept. of Commerce NTIA/ITS ionospheric HF propagation 
prediction programs ICEPAC etc. (These are best-in-class, AFAIK, and 
I use them frequently.  Unfortunately, they have at least one very 
serious bug running under Virtual PC 5.0.x that they don't have 
running on a real Intel Pentium PC.  At least they run, which they 
would not under an version of VPC prior to 5.0.)


I've considered using a logging program but haven't made the leap.


73 de Chuck, W1HIS