Trying out HRD (Ham Radio Deluxe)

More changes here at the new QTH.  It’s always been somewhat of a pain to get Win500 and other ham radio programs to run in a VMWare Fusion virtual machine and connect to my radios.  I’ve had a Dell laptop running Windows 10 just sitting around, so I’ve decided to put it to use as the official Ham Shack Computer.

One of the first things then was to find a new logging program.  I’m trying out HRD right now and it seems to work seamlessly with my TS-590 via the USM cable.  I’m really using only the logging and rig control functions as this point, but the fact that it connected to my TS-590 right away without any fiddling is a good sign.

I’ve also got Win500 running to control my GRE500 scanner. (I’m presently using it to monitor a local 6M repeater.) That also connected flawlessly.