PCR 1500 Interface
I’ve had a Samsung NC10 netbook for a few months now. I decided to purchase it to take with us on vacation because it’s small, looks good and does most of what I want in a computer.
It’s a 1024 by 600 screen which, to be fair, is a little small but about the same to read as a normal sized book. The operating system is Windows XP and not, thank heavens, Vista but it will run Linux so I’m reliably informed.
Anyway, the point of this post is that I messed up the drivers for the Icom PCR1500. That’s a little black box of a receiver from Icom that uses software on a PC to create the graphical interface although the box is a complete receiver.
The problem is, I had messed with the drivers and now they won’t work on the main box so I decided that it would be nice to make it work on Sammy. The advantage is it’s very portable and I can also have it running in the background without having to have it on the machine I’m working on.
It worked perfectly, the software loaded over the network (there’s no optical drive on Sammy) and at first asking the rig fired up and ran perfectly. The pic shows the screen while I’m listening to a local repeater on 2m.
I also downloaded and ran SpecLab, a spectrum analyser, and that, too, seemed to worked OK.
A good afternoon’s work. All I have to do now is catch up with what I should have been doing!
