Hi fellow SWL-ers, especially those having also an AR7030 
shortwave receiver available.
I developed a new program to control the AR7030 from your PC.
It is based on the ideas earlier implemented in my TURBO535
programs for the NRD-535(D), see file TURBO538.ZIP
However to have maximum freedom for the set-up of the control 
program for the AR7030, I started to program from scratch,
using only the good parts of TURBO535.
The program 'ParaDise' (1st Beta version, PD7030B1.ZIP) has 
the aim to control the SW receiver AR7030 and to support the 
listening activities with: 
+ fast and easy setting of the receiver using frequency data
  files 
+ extended and fast logging facilities 
+ 'tracking mode' to show, on the basis of comparison of 
  frequency and time data in a database, to which station the
  receiver is tuned 
+ analysis and processing of received signal strength 
  (S-meter) to get insight in use of the band or propagation
  beheaviour
+ direct receiver control 
It is a MS Windows-application realised with Visual Basic v4,
proffesional edition. Only a 32 bit version is available, so 
you need Windows 95 to run it.
PD7030B1.ZIP can be downloaded from the following sites :
FTP site in Europe  ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/ham/rigctrl/
FTP site in the USA ftp://ftp.qrz.com/files/hdn/hamequip/
(Or if it is no yet there try /files/tmp/pd7030b1.ziQ)
The zipped file is about 2 Mbyte and you need almost 4.5 MByte 
additional free space on your hard disk to install it properly. 
From the 4.5 Mbyte about 1 Mbyte is directly related to the 
application I developed, the other part consists of Visual 
Basic supporting files (*.dll, *.ocx).
After downloading and unpacking the PD7030B1.ZIP file in an 
empty directory on your hard disk, for example C:\TEMP, run
the setup program in this directory from your 'Start' menu.
The setup program propose to put the application related files
in the main directory C:\PD7030B1. If you change this you 
should after the installation also adapt the first line in the
PD7030B1.INI file to reflect this change.
The documentation file PD7030B1.DOC  is a WORD 6 file, but can
also be viewed using the Wordpad program added to W95.
As this is the first beta version I am interested in getting a 
lot of feedback to guide me in the further development. So if 
you have any questions, suggestion or comments, let it be known 
that you always can reach me at the following E-mail addresses : 
Fidonet  Jan Arkesteijn at 2:500/155.6528 or
Internet jarkest@pi.net 
Jan Arkesteijn
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