#HAM RADIO DELUXE VS MACLOGGERDX SOFTWARE#
#HAM RADIO DELUXE VS MACLOGGERDX PC#
#HAM RADIO DELUXE VS MACLOGGERDX WINDOWS#

All other HAM Radio software just runs fine but HRD just hangs after it has been started the first time.

#HAM RADIO DELUXE VS MACLOGGERDX WINDOWS#

After downloading, HRD no longer runs on my (now Windows 10) machine. So I didn’t use HRD until now where I gave it another chance with the newest version 6.2.x. Next version came, problem persists, speed even dropped. I purchased HRD about two years ago and I was told by support by that time that the FSK issue with Rigexpert is a known bug which will be fixed with the next version.

#HAM RADIO DELUXE VS MACLOGGERDX PC#

FSK doesn’t work at all and even on a relatively fast Windows 7 PC HRD was way too slow. I had a very similar issue with my Rig Expert Standard. So for now I’m sticking with FLdigi as it does what I need it to do.

And since the memory channels also store the operating mode and filter settings for a particular freq, having a SDR rig with HRD is merely what I said – a novelty. With 200 memory channels in my ICOM rig it’s just as fast (and easy) to simply spin the memory channel knob on the radio to switch bands and/or frequencies. But that’s more of a novelty than a necessity. The one thing I like about HRD is the rig control. FLdigi doesn’t look as nice as HRD, and it doesn’t have all the features however. It will crash with the signal sweeper going, as I think the program has a serious memory leak. Like you, I upgraded my computer because I was running Windows XP, so went to Win 7 with a lot more RAM and processor power. FLdigi has never, not once, ever done that. I don’t trust it because it stops right in the middle of a QSO with a message saying we are sorry but this program needs to close. The main issue is with DM locking up and/or crashing. That has always worked fine with my IC-7200. I have never had a problem with rig control with HRD. I’ve wasted entirely too much time on this when the alternative, Fldigi, works just fine and dandy. So I’m saying good bye to Ham Radio Deluxe, at least in it’s current incarnation. I switch to Fldigi, and I start getting contacts and showing up on the spotting networks. It seems to be working, it’s putting out a PSK signal. I have dozens of hours into trying to get this bloody program working properly. So what the heck is going on? I have no idea. Switched over to Fldigi, and the very first CQ I did popped up on the spotting network. Not even showing up on the spotting network. I checked my output, it was putting out a nice PSK31 signal, or so it seemed. Still, there are so many goodies buried in that program that I kept trying to use it. There are similar delays when switching between windows, such as jumping from rig control to the logger to the digital software. After clicking on a frequency, you sit there and wait for two, four, eight seconds before it finally gets around to actually changing the frequency. First, rig control is abysmally slow and unresponsive. It’s supposed to have more bells and whistles and work better. This version directly supports the TS-990. Switch to Fldigi and guess what? My call sign started to immediately pop up on the spotting network.įast forward to now. I fired up another receiver and hung my iPad on it with a PSK program running and it had no trouble reading what was coming out of the 990. According to the dials I was putting out a nice, clean signal. I didn’t even show up on the PSK spotting network.

I’d call CQ until I was blue in the face, and nothing. Even worse, I couldn’t make contacts with it in the digital modes, which is what I wanted it for in the first place. I couldn’t get it to trigger transmit via the COM ports no matter what I tried, and had to resort to using VOX. The rig control part of the program would stop working for no apparent reason from time to time, it occasionally did bizarre things, like somehow change the maximum transmission power to 25 watts for no reason I was ever able to figure out. HRD 6 sort of, almost, kind of worked with the 990. Version 6.0 gave me nothing but grief when I was attempting to use it with the TS-990S. I’ve finally given up on HRD (Ham Radio Deluxe).

Ham radio deluxe vs macloggerdx