What a wonderful idea… I’m thinking about adding a Pi to my shack/field kit to 
handle a number of chores without needing a larger computer.

David Thompson
Jack of All Trades
Master of None
dbthomp...@me.com



> On Mar 27, 2019, at 15:13, Andy McMullin <a...@rickham.net> wrote:
> 
> Wes,
> 
> I wonder if a better answer would be to push for versions of the utilities 
> that compile on an ARM chip so that it could be run on a Raspberry Pi. 
> Particularly as it’s already been compiled for an X86 under Linux, so all the 
> libraries should be there. I don’t think many of us would worry about 
> spending 25 quid on a little computer to have just to run the utilities and 
> maybe some of the modern digital modes?
> 
> Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
> 
>> On 27 Mar 2019, at 21:23, Wes <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> You could always do what some of us Windows users do; keep an old computer 
>> around with legacy OS.  My two shack computers and my office desktop still 
>> run Win 7 Pro.  To run my N2PK VNA, I have a laptop with a parallel port 
>> running WinXP and I think there is still a 386 laptop out in the garage 
>> somewhere with Win95, just in case :-)  Of course the latter two have no 
>> WiFi cards in them to avoid troubles.
>> 
>> Wes  N7WS
>> 
>> ps. My son, who is the IT Manager for a national corporation, thinks I'm a 
>> Luddite.
>> 
>> On 3/27/2019 1:43 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>> Apple plans to not support 32 bit applications with the next major release 
>>> of MacOS. This change will hit a number of ham radio applications as well 
>>> as the Elecraft utilities.
>>> 
>>> My favorite program for SO2V RTTY, cocoaModem is one of them, and there is 
>>> no formal support for it, and the available sources won't build under the 
>>> modern MacOS development environment.
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping for a miracle.
>>> 
>>> 73 Bill AE6JV 
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