[chirp_users] D7A(g) issue

[Grant Diffey]

Kurt,

Have you looked at openrocket (opens rocksim files) if you're just looking
for flight simulation (6 dof) if you're looking for actual motor sims... you
might be best with wine.

Grant.

who did his L1 TRA cert a couple of weeks ago.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Kurt Savegnago <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Thanks Dan,
>
>  Will let you know after it's posted.  Used an older version of Chirp to
> program and read my D7A(g). The old KW software is long in tooth and won't
> run under WINE in Linux. Runs but won't communicate over the serial link.
> Something is blasted in the old Windows program.
>
> As an aside, I was able to get WINE to run MCP4A for the D72 albeit takes a
> heck of a lot of work to install the NetFramework and lift the MCP4a
> directory and executables off of a Windows machine. Rig has to be on ttyUSB0
> and it's slow but works.  I like Chirp a heck of a lot better for simple
> programming for the D72.
>
> If anyone is interested, here is the instruction file.
>
> http://www.burnsim.com/linux.asp
>
> Yeah, it's for a rocket motor simulation program (I do that too) but
> getting WINE to run in that fashion allowed other programs to work too.
> The old KW programmers for the D7 and the F6A won't work under
> emulation.:-(
>
>
> Be aware that any version above WINE 1.3.14 won't install the net
> framework.  It fails at NetFramework v2.0.  I use 1.3.13 on a Slack
> 13.1 machine. In Slack 13.37 there are no Samyak-Malayam fonts so one
> doesn't have to worry about that issue in the instructions I wrote.
>
> Get it installed like I show and the last version of FT-817 Commander will
> run on a Linux box. HRD won't run.
>
> Oh, I'm not a programmer but wished I was or had the time to learn some
> rudimentary stuff.  Solved this problem by brute force.:-)
>
>
>                             Kurt KC9LDH
> http://aprs.fi/?call=PARS&mt=roadmap&z=15&timerange=10800
>
> --- On Sun, 7/10/11, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
> > Subject: Re: [chirp_users] D7A(g) issue
> > To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> > Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 5:25 PM
> > > Hope this helps out.
> >
> > Oops, yeah, that was a silly typo. It's fixed for the next
> > daily.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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> > KK7DS
>
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