I run it at dos, wrote it in good old gw basic.  I've never tried it at 
windows, although you could run it as a terminal and get by, but I have 
a lot of automatic stuff in my program such as running through a pl tone 
list to see what tone turns on the radio and so forth.
73
Butch
WA0VJR

On Mon, 25 Apr 
2011, colin McDonald wrote:

> ah very cool.
> do you have to use DOS for the readings etc, or is it windows bassed?
> and presumably it works well with win eyes or jaws?
> I know the IFR 1200's are pretty pricy units, but if they can be made
> accessible via the PC and so on,  perhaps keeping an eye out for a used one
> somewhere is a good thing.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 10:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Managing a repeater
>
>
>> I have a kenwood 820 on uhf and considering the 850.  I put up one of
>> those for our club in Las Vegas a year or so ago.  A little of the
>> programming software is accessible, but I find much of it is not.  I'm
>> fortunate in that I use to do commercial stuff so I have a service monitor
>> and I can tune my duplexers.  I control the ifr 1200 with a program I
>> wrote in basic and then compiled.  I can recall memories, take meter
>> readings every so many seconds and so forth with this little program.  Of
>> corse the ifr makes it easy to tune up the machine, check receiver and so
>> forth.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>
>