AR 8000 Software
gunner
Can anyone help shed some light on the software for AOR 8000? How
does it help?
Crush
In article <54b9ib$o...@kdcol.kdcol.com>, dr...@kdcol.com says...
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>Can anyone help shed some light on the software for AOR 8000? How
>does it help?
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combinations as you want.. For instance if you live in LA and go to NYC often
before a trip you'd program in NYC with the SW and required HW then upon return
reprogram LA.
Also the software allows faster scan/search rates.. DTMF If available with the
interface you use. There are many other things it enables.
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Too see more.. Try the following web page: http://www.scancat.com
They are the makers of ScanCat. There is other software available but
I don't know of the webpages for it.
Dantin
gunner wrote:
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> Can anyone help shed some light on the software for AOR 8000? How
> does it help?
Using your computer with the AR8000 allows you to backup and restore the
memory channels, as well as manage your frequency files.
You can type in the channel text labels on your computer keyboard
instead of struggling with the AR8000's "twist-the-knob" method.
You can exchange frequency files with others.
You can sort the frequency assignments in a bank to give the best speed
performance.
You can print out a list of your memory channels and their current
contents.
You can set and store up search ranges.
-- That's why I use my computer!
Check out the FREEWARE package that Rob McKenzie and I put together. It
is a frequency and channel management package that uploads and downloads
memory channels and search ranges. It does not provide real-time,
interactive control of the radio. It requires MS Access.
gunner
What is MS Access?
Michael Alexander
> Can anyone help shed some light on the software for AOR 8000? How
> does it help?
You understand that the scanner is connected to a computer, right? The
software can be used to upload freqs to the scanner, manage search and scan
banks and greatly enhance the scanner's capabilities in several other ways.
--
Michael Alexander
ma...@kersur.net
Steve Work
gunner (dr...@kdcol.com) wrote:
: What is MS Access?
A database program, it has nothing in itself to do with scanners, but it
might be useful as a means of storing and categorizing a list of frequencies.
Dantin
gunner wrote:
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> What is MS Access?
The Microsoft Access database program that is included on Microsoft
Office, or available seperately.
Daniel Ayers
Crush (Cr...@kill.destroy) wrote:
: Too see more.. Try the following web page: http://www.scancat.com
: They are the makers of ScanCat. There is other software available but
: I don't know of the webpages for it.
I bought ScanCat to use with my AR8000, and I found it to be deficient,
badly designed, badly documented and rather buggy. Its scrolling-channel
displays are poorly programmed and confusing, it does not allow you to
program "passed" (locked out) channels ... I could go on ...
As a professional software engineer the poor design and programming in that
product is painfully obvious to me. When you charge someone just under US$100
for a program, it has to be of acceptable quality!
The worst part is when I raised these issues with Jim Springer, he offered
me a free upgrade to the (soon-to-be-released) Windows version of ScanCat
(which I don't want, I don't want to run Windows on a machine just so I can
computer-control a scanner!) and then basically said he didn't care about
the deficiencies in his software.
Writing a good scanner control program isn't a very hard project, so my
approach to this problem has been to start working on my own. The best
way to teach Jim Springer that customer satisfaction is important is to
compete with, and outdo, him in the marketplace. Of course I'll be doing
this in my spare time and not as a full-time job, but I'm looking forward
to the day when I can offer the market a cheaper, better and more reliable
radio control program than ScanCat.
Daniel.
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Lindsay Reid
dan...@securicor.co.nz (Daniel Ayers) wrote:
>I bought ScanCat to use with my AR8000, and I found it to be deficient,
>badly designed, badly documented and rather buggy. Its scrolling-channel
>displays are poorly programmed and confusing, it does not allow you to
>program "passed" (locked out) channels ... I could go on ...
>
The best software I have found is Scan*Star from Signal Intelligence.
I think I must have tried nearly all the programs out there. There is
a free demo downloadable from their web site at:
The software drives a number of Icom, AOR etc. receivers but no
drivers are available yet for the Icom 8500 or the AOR AR5000.
Hope this helps.
Donald Gray
dan...@securicor.co.nz (Daniel Ayers) wrote:
>I bought xxxxxxxx to use with my AR8000, and I found it to be deficient,
>badly designed, badly documented and rather buggy. Its scrolling-channel
>displays are poorly programmed and confusing, it does not allow you to
>program "passed" (locked out) channels ... I could go on ...
>As a professional software engineer the poor design and programming in that
>product is painfully obvious to me. When you charge someone just under US$100
>for a program, it has to be of acceptable quality!
Hello Daniel
For some fresh AR8000 software, watch out for CHANNEL COMMANDER V2.00
soon to be released. Written for WINDOWS 3.1 and above.
A freeware full-feature version will be lodged on a web server in the
near future.
I will post further details a little closer to the date... Very soon
now (I hope!!)
Regards to all
BTW: Daniel, It's good to see a Kiwi poster - not many about - where
are you? I used to live in Titirangi, NW Auckland.
Donald Gray
Free Agent V1.0 -
Eudora Lite V1.5.4
Please do not short the output or severe damage will be caused to the fuse.
(On a Sony power supply leaflet!)
Daniel Ayers
Lindsay Reid (lr...@lreid.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: The best software I have found is Scan*Star from Signal Intelligence.
I received a demo of Scan*Star when I bought my scanner. I had tried it,
but I didn't remember it so I've just gone away and installed it again.
Americans are strange people. Many of them, and programmers seem to
especially suffer from this, think that the world stretches from Hawaii to
New York ... they appear to forget that there are millions of people
elsewhere in the world who watch TV, buy products ... and use scanner
software. (This is the reason why CNN international carries so much US
political and other news... like we really care about it ...)
When I installed the Scan*Star demo, it produced a dialog box to ask me for
my time zone. I am in New Zealand, we are currently in daylight (summer)
time [NZDT = UTC+13] - so I entered NZST as the standard zone, NZDT as the
summer zone and -12 as the UTC offset.
Now, my UTC offset right now is +13 (+12 for standard time). It is quite
common for US software (like Scan*Star in this case) to get the sign the
wrong way around, I don't know if its because y'all can't bear to be on the
negative side of things ... or if the authors think that their market isn't
smart enough to get it right.
So, biting the bullet, I entered my UTC offset as -12 (there was an example
there for CET which is really UTC+1, being entered as -1). Scan*Star
wouldn't accept an offset less than zero, contrary to the example on the
dialog box. That also meant it wasn't capable of accepting my time zone.
It took me 90 seconds to get that far, and I discarded Scan*Star as yet
another piece of poorly written software. (Heck, even ScanCat got further
than that!!!)
As an aside, I really don't feel that a Windows interface adds much to a
scanner control program. All the windows interfaces I've seen, including
Scan*Star (if I recall it correctly) are fairly ugly/clumsy - you don't
gain anything from the windows interface. Besides, the machine I use for
this purpose isn't geared for Windows (it'll run 3.11 'ok", but I wouldn't
try 95 on it).
Why can't we just have an *effective* text-based scanner control program.
Simple, fast, effective? Forget the pretty windows and the like. It's not
that hard to do!
: The software drives a number of Icom, AOR etc. receivers but no
: drivers are available yet for the Icom 8500 or the AOR AR5000.
Well, I've already started coding my scanner control program. The biggest
disadvantage I have is that I only own two computer-controllable radios -
my Kenwood R5000 and my AOR AR8000. So I'm going to turn that disadvantage
into an advantage ... instead of hard-coding the support for each radio into
the program, I'm designing it so that any (knowledgable) user can configure
the thing to work with any radio. Then of course they could send the config
files to me, and I'll release support for that device next time around ...
(Well, I spose I'd better stop talking about it and start doing it. :-)
Daniel Ayers
: For some fresh AR8000 software, watch out for CHANNEL COMMANDER V2.00
: soon to be released. Written for WINDOWS 3.1 and above.
I'll look out for it, however as I said I'd prefer non-Windows software.
I've never seen a Windows interface add anything to a scanner program
(although I wouldn't mind seeing a counter-example).
: BTW: Daniel, It's good to see a Kiwi poster - not many about - where
: are you? I used to live in Titirangi, NW Auckland.
I'm in Christchurch.
Daniel.
Steve Ayscue
On 28 Oct 1996 11:10:54 GMT, dan...@securicor.co.nz (Daniel Ayers)
wrote:
>I've never seen a Windows interface add anything to a scanner program
>(although I wouldn't mind seeing a counter-example).
>
>: BTW: Daniel, It's good to see a Kiwi poster - not many about - where
>: are you? I used to live in Titirangi, NW Auckland.
>
>I'm in Christchurch.
>
>Daniel.
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>Software Engineer/Sysadmin, Securicor 3net (NiQ Routers) dan...@securicor.co.nz
>Internet Consulting (Security,Servers,Networks,etc) dan...@mcbbs.gen.nz
The Drag and Drop of frequencies in bank lists is *very* nice in AR
Toolkit for the Mac. Anyone know witch Windows 8K software will allow
this?
Windowing systems offer much more conveinence in multitasking.
Steve Ayscue
ays...@vnet.net