[Ham-Mac] WSPR for Mac

David Ferrington, M0XDF M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk
Mon Oct 18 03:58:35 EDT 2010


This is all very interesting, but hasn't resolved WSPR running on native OSX.
I too have Parallels and so can run Windows s/w, but was rather hoping there would be a OSX version, since it appears not, it's back to Parallels I guess.

Thanks for the input.
73 de M0XDF
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On 16 Oct 2010, at 18:20, Stewart Bryant wrote:

>>> I still think you need to buy a copy of Windows though even with
>>> VirtualBox, so cost wise little is gained, other than not having to 
>>> reboot the machine.
> 
> What I had in mind was
> 
> Virtual Box as the virtual O/S environment
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (OSX/intel)
> 
> Linux as the guest O/S
> (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#id457899)
> 
> Then run the linux version of WSPR
> 
> That is all free.
> 
> The only problem I see is that it can be quite tricky getting WSPR to 
> run under LINUX. I tried a couple of times and then gave up.
> 
> Personally I run Parallels on my Mac with a number of guest O/S but that 
> costs money.



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