[amsat-bb] Re: help with wisp

Jeff Wandling W7BRS wrote:

"WiSP for Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0 is current. Written by Chris Jackson, ZL2TPO."

WTF? For suitable versions of "current", perhaps!

WiSP may be obsolete? What version are you running?

I'll say.

It's one of the odd things I've noticed about software for amateur radio, though. It all seems to be really badly written shareware for old versions of Windows, with no source code available and quite often a fee required to "unlock" the useful bits - which, if it hasn't been updated in ten years, you may not be able to get any more!

I would have thought that radio amateurs would have grokked the concept of open source, if anyone did...

Gordon