My apologies Ken. It was not you it was Bill W9OL and I'm sorry I aimed it at you. I just forgot who it was.
There my apologies end. I do not discount Phil's contributions. I also do not propose solutions for problems that do not exist and I most certainly do not waste my own money for nonexistent issues. If you were listening to the office every day talking about phone calls complaining about stopped serial ports, or looking at bug reports (that have just stopped since they have given up) you might investigate as well I have investigated with port mon as has Bob Tracey and several others. For those who have had repeated, regular problems, portmon does not lie. The applications on either side of the port remain operational and send stuff to a hung port. I had this issue as well. I never see it with Eltima ports. With the Flex 5000 going out the door, and people expecting to see all of that stuff glue together seamlessly, I am putting up an alternative because there is little choice. We have been told CLEARLY that development on the vCom suite is at an end. Hey, the guy has to make a living and he is doing just that. No one blames him and everyone thanks him but that does not mean we can stick our heads in the sand like ostriches. I mean to contest this year with the 5000 and it simply has to work. Bob Ken N9VV wrote: > 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 >> > -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. 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