Some very simple ham radio software for OS X - Can anyone help?

NickK · 27 Apr 2010 at 07:25

Hmm will have to have a look into that :/ I'll compile a known pascal command line program and use that to drive a accuracy unit test for all locations automatically. Should sort out if it's my maths or the UI not clearing if it rejects the calculation for some reason.

NickK · 30 Apr 2010 at 08:13

Ok, sorted a few issues:

1. Longtitude, Latitude and bearing now correct vs US Naval code - unit tests for all grid locations and bearings from a home location. There was a + instead of a - and the value given 109 vs 251 is actually 360-109=251 but that's corrected to true bearings.
2. Corrected a preferences issue (displayed it but didn't set the home location due to using NIB files to create objects)
3. Missing long/lat variable initialisation (quite how both I and the compiler missed that one)

Still have the following to nail:
1. When copy and pasting you can paste a non QTH into it..
2. clearing the results on invalid numbers (related to 1)

Feek · 1 May 2010 at 11:04

Sounds good Nick. Rob, yours is working well and I'll be throwing the Windows version on our contest PC at the club

Feek · 19 May 2010 at 20:08

Any more updates, gents?

RobH · 19 May 2010 at 21:48

Both the OSX and Windows versions of mine are still available from http://www.rbrt.co.uk. Still the same version but if you want any additional features or changes just let me know.

NickK · 19 May 2010 at 22:25

Feek said:
Any more updates, gents?

Afraid not thanks to work.

Feek · 31 May 2010 at 13:18

Hokay, the only other thing I'd like in yours Rob is a nice spanky icon

I applied this one

Which I got from the bottom of this page, but although it appears in my applications menu correctly I only have the standard Java icon in my dock. It's a minor thing but I'd be nice if the same icon could show in the dock.

Nick, I'm still interested in yours if you can finish the project, especially if you manage to make it work through Spotlight as that would be fantastic.

With the DX season coming into play, I'm using Robs all the time now - It's open along with UTC clock and my DXCluster client all the time, it's very useful indeed.

NickK · 31 May 2010 at 23:01

The icon was the easy bit..

The problem is that my reference naval code is not behaving according to the reference data also provided, here are the azimuth tests:

r = 195.804958, exp=195.804944
r = 295.289129, exp=295.289028
r = 84.686484, exp=85.619611
r = 195.804958, exp=195.804583
r = 300.771008, exp=295.288472
r = 85.619687, exp=85.620083

And the document, bit at the back... http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD703541&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf you've got to love the fact that the code is August 1968.. that's 5 years older than me!

This could be down to many things (part of my degree is numberical computation). I'll accept accuracy to two decimal places but look at #3 and #5 are the major concerns.

Feek · 1 Jun 2010 at 07:05

Your icon is good, Nick, it's Robs that missing.

I looked at the document you linked but felt my head starting to explode so I closed it quickly

Feek · 10 Jul 2010 at 12:01

Did you get a chance to add an icon, Rob? It currently has function over form and that's not the Apple way

Feek · 6 Apr 2015 at 16:46

OK, this is a really long shot after five years but I've installed a vanilla version of Yosemite with JDK v8 update 31 (1.8.0_31-b13) and when I try and run Rob's QTH Calc, I get the following error:

I really don't want to have to install the older version of Java so I wonder if there's any way this can be updated to work with the version I have?

I've dropped Rob a trust message to ask.

NickK · 12 Apr 2015 at 17:07

There may be a command line way of doing a compatibility flag that ignores the runtime reqs.

Not used java for .. well 2005/6

Feek · 27 Aug 2018 at 19:41

Right then, three years later and @RobH I wonder if there's any chance of this ever working again? I'd love to be able to use it but it still doesn't work. I do appreciate that it's been over eight years since this was written so there's probably not a lot of hope but it can't hurt to ask.

AHarvey · 28 Aug 2018 at 13:04

Do you have any of the source code?

Probably easier to move this over to a Python based software, it'll be easier to update and more chance of it being kept up to date.

EDIT: Seems there are already a few python packages that do the hard work, we just need to package it and test it

https://pypi.org/project/maidenhead/

RobH · 29 Aug 2018 at 18:05

@Feek Do you have a copy of the JAR you could send me? I have some source code but it appears to be from an earlier version, I might be able to reverse engineer it to see what's missing.

Thanks

Feek · 29 Aug 2018 at 18:37

RobH said:
@Feek Do you have a copy of the JAR you could send me? I have some source code but it appears to be from an earlier version, I might be able to reverse engineer it to see what's missing.

Thanks

@RobH I do - Drop me a trust message and I'll reply.

AHarvey said:
Do you have any of the source code?

I don't.

RobH · 29 Aug 2018 at 21:23

@Feek How important is the window transparency feature? Looks like the changes some stuff in JDK7, got it working on Windows but it doesn't seem to be supported on OS X (transparency that is).

Feek · 29 Aug 2018 at 21:47

@RobH Totally unimportant. It was a 'nice-to-have' but that's about it.

RobH · 29 Aug 2018 at 21:51

Feek said:
@RobH Totally unimportant. It was a 'nice-to-have' but that's about it.

Right, I'll bin it off for the moment as it was a right pain to get working on Windows and OS X is not playing ball at all with it at the moment.

RobH · 29 Aug 2018 at 22:16

@Feek Give this a try and let me know: http://www.rbrt.co.uk/QTH Calc.jar

I tested it on Windows 10 and OS X Yosemite with no issues.