Dealing with Chinese software
What is it about Chinese software?
Their hardware is brilliant but the software (drivers and applications) are so often pure abject crap.
It's like they had a drunken Uncle Wen who once owned an Atari game console and they hired him to write the drivers for a ham radio transceiver. Picked up a well built and nice Wouxun two-band transceiver and the software supplied with it will not cut and paste a spreadsheet of frequencies. Each cell on each row has to be entered manually. And don't get me started on their USB to Serial adapter cable -- the Windows Vista/7 software didn't work, turns out that it doesn't work on 64-bit systems. Went to the manufacturers website, downloaded the 3MB of Win7 64-bit drivers and zip, zilch, nada...
My 64-bit system runs every other piece of ham software (and some of these are pretty obscure) perfectly. I gotta haul out an XP machine to program this @#$% Wouxun -- looks like it is going to get a lot of use when I travel as programming new repeaters is soooooooo easy.
Posted by DaveH at June 4, 2012 10:17 PM