MacHamRadio.com has partnered with QRZ.com, the largest Amateur Radio website in the world, to provide a support forum specifically for Amateur Radio users of OS X. The forum can be found as a subforum in the Computers, Hardware and Operating System section. The forum is intended to provide support and information about all OS X amateur related software and to encourage and support the active and continuously growing OS X users community. So, I invite all of you to visit the forum and leave a message, ask a question, or share an answer or two. Let's continue building the MacHamRadio community, highlight the outstanding OS X software and developers, and share our interest in using OS X with the rest of the Amateur Radio community. I would personally like to thank the staff at QRZ.com for their support of the MacHamRadio forum and the MacHamRadio community at large. 73 de Dave K3DCW www.machamradio.com
Glad to see this. It is nice having the breadth of QRZ to glean OS X ideas, thoughts, experiences, etc. When IBM uses Mac to save money over Windows machines, you know we are on to something. Cf. http://www.computerworld.com/articl...e-buy-is-making-and-saving-ibm-money-ibm.html
Thanks Dave for all your hard work on getting this Mac Forum established--it's appreciated. 73's Jack WB4PBF
Thanks, but the credit goes to the team at QRZ.com that agreed that it could fill a role here on this site. I'm appreciative of their support.
Great to read! I just have to ask if the forum is to be called MacOS or OS X? Shouldn't it be the former?
If (when?) Apple returns officially to the MacOS moniker as rumored, we'll likely switch it to MacOS; but for now it is still officially OS X. Besides, I didn't name the forum.
Works for me. Glad to see other Mac users. What's up with El Capitan and USB Audio Codecs? I'm struggling with my Yaesu SCU-17. :-(
Doesn't affect just amateur radio users, but users of all kinds of USB audio equipment. It is apparently caused by changes made to Apple's USB stack in OS X. There are some changes you can make that may fix the problem for you, or you can try running your USB device off of a Thunderbird expansion dock which seems to have zero problems (but is expensive). Check out http://www.machamradio.com/blog/2016/4/20-fldigi-wjst-x-and-el-capitan-audio-issues for a bit of background and some (possible) solutions.
This is great news and thanks for the new forum. I finally "Saw the Light" and dumped Windows after 20 years. I figured if they couldn't get it right after Win95,WinMe, Win98,Win2000, NT, XP, Vista... then I had given them plenty of chances. After switching to Mac's 99% of my support problems went away. No more rebooting, driver problems and viruses. Its sad to see so many Windows users think that computers are suppose to work the way Windows does and that problems are just part of owning a computer. Now the more geek you are and the more you know about fixing Windows issues, the smarter you are.
