Eric,

The name of Simon Brown rings a bell as he is the author of Ham Radio 
Deluxe.  I just did a little searching and found that HRD  was Simon's 
follow up to the FT-817 Commander.   The Commander only  worked for the 
FT-817, while HRD  does a multitude of rigs and has  many functions.  Have 
you looked at HRD?  Or is there some reason you need the other program.  HRD 
is always being updated, while the other program isn't going anywhere.   i 
did download Commander myself just to see if I had any better luck than  you 
did, but no dice.

73, Steve KW3A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Clegg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: FT817 Commander Help


> Hi Steve,
> The commander program I downloaded is the one written by Simon Brown
> specifically for the Yaesu ft817 radio.
>
> As I said I could do nothing with it.
>
> The program was written in 2003 and is build 739. I found help files that
> hadn't been written yet. It referred me to a Yahoo help forum on that
> program and radio.
>
> The users guide was one of the files that was part of that program.
>
> I opened it with Acrobat but couldn't get it to read past page one.
>
> I tried page down to get it to go further down and control page down.
> Nothing!
>
> For the moment I'm stymied.
>
> I don't want to go into some other help forum. Most sighted people have no
> idea of how we use Windows based computers. So don't think I'll get much
> help in this direction.
>
> I think I'm doing something wrong and missing one small vital element.
>
> I can't see why  I can't run the program without a radio attached and at
> least poke around and look at menus etc.
>
> Eric
> KU3I
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