Be careful with Ham Radio Deluxe

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

I installed an upgrade to my Ham Radio Deluxe logging software. After a couple of tried is completely from the program rendering it unuseable. So I wrote a problem ticket to them. They said my 1-year of tech support has expired and I must pay $55 for another year. I responded that they should work out the bugs before putting out updates and fix it. Their curt reply was, “Sorry, can’t help you.” Apparently I am not alone.

HRD cost $100 so I expected few if any problems although the software is quite buggy. I you are using HRD then great. However if you are considering purchase, before plunking down your hared earned monies, I suggest you see the following links:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/21/amateur_radio_fans_drop_hammer_on_hrds_blacklist/

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/5jf4i2/ham_radio_deluxe_mega_thread/

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=ham+radio+deluxe

So in order to not lose my logbook and all my QSOs, I found the last free version at IW5EDI’s website:

http://www.iw5edi.com/software/ham-radio-deluxe-5-download-links

And it seems to work fine.

 

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