[Lowfer] ARGO Cal.

[Ralph Hartwell]

> Peter - just a quick note re: question 4- I used a 166 PC  486 for a
long
> time with ARGO - but only up to v128   - beyond that version, strange
things
> would happen and I lost more data than I saved. V128 worked 100% all
the
> time. So my recommendations would be to stick with 128 - until you get
into
> a pentium of some kind ( >200 MHz ) and then 130 and 131 work fine.

I'm running ARGO V1.131 here on a WIN NT4 machine with a P133 in it.

Although ARGO is super-reliable with WinNT  (I haven't even been able to
_make_ it crash) the machine runs pretty near full tilt with ARGO alone
running.  Note that ARGO uses more CPU horsepower when it is running in
Full Band view than in other modes.  Also, the wider the audio band ARGO
is processing, the more CPU power is required.  IOW, QRSS60 us easier on
the CPU usage than running at QRSS3.

I can run my data logger in the background to record the transmitter PA
current while ARGO is running, but the processor usage sits at 100%.
Memory seems to affect it very little, I started with 32 MB in the
machine and then went to 96 MB and saw no difference.  It takes sheer
CPU speed to crunch all those numbers.  I'm looking at running it on a
P333 machine in the near future.

73,

Ralph   W5JGV / WC2XSR / 13

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