> I actually do have a little Acer > Aspire notebook PC that was my sons but I don't know how much horsepower > it has and it runs XP. I may dig it out and see if I can get it to work > but this was more or less a whimsical thought I had, not a serious > attempt at portable or emergency operation.
Give it a try, you may be pleasantly surprised. As for portable or emergency ops, you should consider that, too - just in case. When I bought my F5K, I set it up with a rather largish HP laptop running XP Media edition. I figured that way if I needed to, I could take it in the field as a portable/emergency station. The F5K has the second RX and the ATU, so with the F5K, the computer and my go-kit of antenna parts, I can set up wherever I have a 12 volt battery, and I have several of those, too, along with a small genset the puts out both 120 VAC and 12 VDC. It's light enough so even at age 72, I can hump it into the truck, along with a couple of 6 gallon cans of gasoline. If the laptop flakes out, I also have set up an old Acer 3634 running XP in which I installed a plug in Firewire port PCMCIA card. That computer runs PSDR and the F5K just fine. That's the backup laptop for field work. Everything runs off of 12 volts or 120, whichever I can locate. 73, Ralph W5JGV - WD2XSH/7 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
