Hard drive failure and starting over with wisp and xp
1 st problem error msg can not create a directory c:wisp/ao-16 [P]
2 nd problem kep database not getting written in wisp directory or any where
3 rd problem unable to install rotator drive
4 th problem gsc unable to associate a satellite
Thanks for your help
nick
I don't use it, but a little googling provided this:
According to page at amsat.org: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftpsoft.html#win-wisp
"WiSP
WiSP, Windows Satellite Program, is an integrated suite of Windows programs which completely automate your groundstation for operation on any or all of the Pacsats. It includes implementations of the broadcast protocol used for downlinking files and the connected protocol used for uplinking files, utility functions for dealing with directories and message files, satellite tracking and scheduling, and more.
WiSP for Windows 3.1 is obsolete and has problems with Year 2000, and so it is no longer available.
WiSP for Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0 is current. Written by Chris Jackson, ZL2TPO."
WiSP may be obsolete? What version are you running?
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Nick Pugh wrote:
Hard drive failure and starting over with wisp and xp
1 st problem error msg can not create a directory c:wisp/ao-16 [P]
2 nd problem kep database not getting written in wisp directory or any where
3 rd problem unable to install rotator drive
4 th problem gsc unable to associate a satellite
Thanks for your help
nick
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For all things WISP32 see:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/
Such as
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/wispinse.htm
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Nick Pugh wrote:
Hard drive failure and starting over with wisp and xp
1 st problem error msg can not create a directory c:wisp/ao-16 [P]
2 nd problem kep database not getting written in wisp directory or any
where
3 rd problem unable to install rotator drive
4 th problem gsc unable to associate a satellite
Thanks for your help
nick
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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
In defense of WISP32... It works as well in Vista as it did in WIN95, WIN98, NT4 ( as well as anything ran in NT4 that needed to talk to a comport ), WIN2000, and XP.
I still use it solely for the GO-32 BBS while running SatPC32 and LVB Tracker to control the rotator and doppler.
I also occasionally use the olde golde TrakBox. The TrakBox is 15 years old and I can run doppler and rotator without a PC ( great for Field Day ). The "current" LVB Tracker goes brain dead every couple of weeks and requires a recalibration and only does rotators.
Sometimes "new" is not "improved" nor "current".
Lots of great freeware around such as HRD, UI-VIEW32, MMSSTV, and a bazillion logging programs and more.
If you want to be on the bleeding edge and into open source go to sourceforge.net and sourceforge.com and do some searches, or, Google Linux/ham radio.
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ Sent: November 3, 2008 5:06 PM To: Jeff Wandling W7BRS Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [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...
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Alan wrote:
Sometimes "new" is not "improved" nor "current".
That's certainly true
Lots of great freeware around such as HRD, UI-VIEW32, MMSSTV, and a bazillion logging programs and more.
Yes, but they're Windows-only, and there is no source code available. I don't want to have to buy a very expensive piece of software (which is closed-source, and therefore insecure and unmaintainable) to run another piece of closed-source software.
If you want to be on the bleeding edge and into open source go to sourceforge.net and sourceforge.com and do some searches, or, Google Linux/ham radio.
Exactly! You won't find much. What there is, is generally pretty terrible - about the best thing out there is probably the soundmodem software.
No-one seems to be terribly keen to give up their secrets, either. I've been trying to get a description of the packet format for APRS-IS for a while, with pretty much no success. It's not on the APRS-IS website (there's a guide for the commands to pass to the server for enabling filters, but that's about it for the "developer guide"), and the only email response I've had back about it is "Only people developing APRS software need to know about that" - which I thought was rather the point!
Gordon
Gordon wrote about WiSP and some other programs:
Yes, but they're Windows-only, and there is no source code available. I don't want to have to buy a very expensive piece of software (which is closed-source, and therefore insecure and unmaintainable) to run another piece of closed-source software.
If you see a need, start writing. This software doesn't appear magically, out of nowhere. Somebody has to write it. Why can't that somebody be you?
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There is actually a piece of open-source software out there that was similar to WiSP, I think. I found it while looking for something else a few weeks ago and haven't done any investigation on it.
Check out PACSAT tools at http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/ and please let me know how you make out with it.
73, Eric W4OTN
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 08:41 -0800, laura halliday wrote:
Gordon wrote about WiSP and some other programs:
Yes, but they're Windows-only, and there is no source code available. I don't want to have to buy a very expensive piece of software (which is closed-source, and therefore insecure and unmaintainable) to run another piece of closed-source software.
If you see a need, start writing. This software doesn't appear magically, out of nowhere. Somebody has to write it. Why can't that somebody be you?
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laura halliday wrote:
Gordon wrote about WiSP and some other programs:
Yes, but they're Windows-only, and there is no source code available. I don't want to have to buy a very expensive piece of software (which is closed-source, and therefore insecure and unmaintainable) to run another piece of closed-source software.
If you see a need, start writing. This software doesn't appear magically, out of nowhere. Somebody has to write it. Why can't that somebody be you
Is pbpg still being developed? wasn't that open source? This might be a good start, if not. I always thought the pacsat protocol was a very interesting concept and is a piece of technology that deserves to live on. Maybe even has uses for distributing content via low bandwidth channels on other ham bands. It'd be nice, maybe to have a raw library that just did the pacsat protocol alone, without all the other stuff, as a basis for building other apps. With a single common cross-platform library as the basis for pacsat protocol programs, that would allow us to more easily improve the system, by updating the library, and then everyone's application is upgraded. (This of course, would take some time to build, which unfortunately, I have none of -- baah, for real life interfering with such plans.)
With libraries for the 'weird stuff' then, I think more user apps would pop up. Hamlib, I believe is a good example,and is still maintained, as far as I know.
laura halliday wrote:
Gordon wrote about WiSP and some other programs:
Yes, but they're Windows-only, and there is no source code available. I don't want to have to buy a very expensive piece of software (which is closed-source, and therefore insecure and unmaintainable) to run another piece of closed-source software.
If you see a need, start writing. This software doesn't appear magically, out of nowhere. Somebody has to write it. Why can't that somebody be you?
I'll just add that to the dozen or so other open-source projects I actively maintain, then ;-)
Seriously, I'm quite happy to kick off a project if others are willing to share some of the work. I really wanted a decent APRS client for Linux, and I thought that maybe an APRS-IS viewer would be a great way forwards. No-one seems to be terribly forthcoming with the APRS-IS protocol, though.
Gordon
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Nick Pugh