Hi Bob, I am one of the happy campers who enjoys using vCOM every day without any problems. The Eltima product might be an expensive solution looking for a problem.
I use vCOM for both CAT connectivity (6-16 pair) and CW keying (7-17 pair) between MixW and PowerSDR. I have used vCOM with EasyPal digital SSTV and other digi programs without a glitch. vCOM has worked faithfully for several years (since 2005) http://www.philcovington.com/SDR.html I want to thank Phil Covington for his generous contribution of vCOM along with: # .NET 1.1 Serial Port Support Class # .NET 1.1 Socket Utilities Class # Serial to TCP Bridge # SharpDSP Console for the Softrock # The beautiful live analog S-Meter (patterned after John KC5NRA) # XML serialization for PowerSDR # SharpDevelop alternative compiler examples and demonstration # Mono testing and exploration # His innumerable contributions to Mercury and HPSDR # His new QuickSilver VERB DDC design # and now SharpDSP2 for the QuickSilver de ken n9vv Robert McGwier wrote: > vCom has served us very well indeed thanks to Phil and as always, the > price was indeed right. Many experience drop outs of the serial lines > between your external programs and the PowerSDR. I have looked for an > alternative to vCom for quite a while that might fix this issue since I > could monitor ports and see that all applications were still talking and > that the vCom ports were becoming black holes. Closing and opening > fixed the problem but this is not an acceptable solution. > > For those of you who are new to PowerSDR and Flex radio, there are no > wires between your logging and rotor and contesting programs and the > radio. It is done VIRTUALLY inside the computer. The virtual glue we > have been using is vCom. I am recommending an alternative, VSPD, if you > find yourself having trouble with vCom. > > Unfortunately, there is no really usable free alternative I can find. > Development on all of this was stymied when we were going to move to > Visual Studio > 2005 and .NET 2.0 but developmental delays have > prevented this. > > I want every SDR-1000 and Flex 5000 to have the best possible experience > with their radio so I wish to recommend an alternative that is NOT free. > You can download it and try it for 14 days and prove to yourself that > you no longer have drop outs. > > http://www.eltima.com/products/vspdxp/ > http://www.eltima.com/de/products/vspdxp/ > > I recommend if you download the trial version, you unload vCom (this is > easy) and load this as a replacement for the fourteen days it is free to > use. Unlike VAC, it will not start shouting by me now but will just > say "it is time for you to purchase" when you try to open the control > panel. I have run this product now for two months since it was > recommended to me by someone here to try. I believe that was Ken, N9VV, > but I am uncertain. If it was Ken, thank you, if it was not Ken, my > apologies for not writing down who it was. > > Here are the things I do know. I have not had a virtual serial port > drop out in two months. I have not had the occasional other problems > that I believe were associated with vCom. > > The product is not cheap. It is a flat $100.00 for a single copy. If 21 > of you band together, it is $50.00 each. I can recommend it as > wonderfully easy to use, as easy as vCom. The GUI is no more functional > that vCom but VSPD has more capabilities than vCom which you can find > out by trying it yourself for a free 14 day trial. > > I spent the $100 to make sure it was sound before I recommended it. I can. > > > > 73's > Bob > N4HY > -- What a fantastic time to be in Ham Radio! _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
