[SFDXA] Speaking of HRD...

[Sebastian, W4AS]

The price is actually $59.95, includes telephone and email support and 'free' upgrade to version 6 which is due out by Dayton.

The $49.95 price was a hamfest special deal.

Simon Brown (the original author), has been employed by an SDR company (RFSpace) for quite some time now, and he had pretty much abandoned HRD.  Rick mentioned to me that negotiations started at $200k (and went down from there).  I don't know where it ended but I'm sure it wasn't cheap.

If you think paying for HRD is an issue, you should see what happens every time QRZ.com changes something and you can longer 'scrape' the data from them in your logging program.  I'll bet QRZ will soon stop non-$ubscribers from automatically entering their data via logging programs.  They already have a limit on how many calls you can query in a day from their web site.

73 de Sebastian, W4AS



On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Bill wrote:

> 
> Speaking of HRD...
> 
> In Orlando, Rick Ruhl W4PC, of CSS Software had a booth for
> his ROC Software for Timewave Products. He is also a partner with Randy
> Gawtry, CEO of TimeWave, in the purchase of Ham Radio Deluxe(HRD). I
> think there is a third person as well but I forgot who.
> 
> The new price for HRD will be $49.95 for the version 5.1, but it will
> include the new Version 6 which will fix all the bugs you didn't know
> about. So the widely used software will go from Freeware to Payware.
> 
> I've been a buyer and user of Rick's software for many years upgrading
> regularly. I  know he will do a great job with it. But going from free
> to paid will be hard for some to handle. I will guess all the old
> versions will be available but I didn't ask.
> 
> Bill Marx W2CQ