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Jeremy McDermond NH6Z has compiled the WSPR source to run under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
I don’t see a webpage describing Jeremy’s work but there is a direct link the compiled binary.
http://www.nh6z.net/WSPR/WSPR.zip
There has been much interest in a Mac version of WSJT for many years so this looks promising. Recently I compiled NEC4 for OSX and FreeBSD so maybe the lessons I learned I can attempt that with WSJT.
73 Lee
WW2DX
Hi Lee,
Should have mentioned. You can find a discussion about this on WSPRNET see;
http://wsprnet.org/drupal/node/2416
You may have to register to access the forum.
Hope this helps.
Sean.
G0OAN
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What does this program work with? I have the proper MAC OSX however cannot find any help guides in setting it up.
Hi Frank,
You can find a copy of the Users Guide etc at;
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wspr.html
Hope this helps.
Sean.
I downloaded this and it seems to perform properly. However, it just suddenly closes. Sometimes I can see a few calls, and other times it closes even though it shows receiving.
fldigi and other Mac ham programs are working fine. Running snow leopard on MacMini.
Thoughts or recommendations?
73/gus kr4k
Hi Gus,
It would appear that the Mac version of WSPR currently has a memory leak.
If you run Activity Monitor (it’s in your Utilities folder) you’ll see that the memory assignment increases at the rate of about .1M per second. It will keep increasing the amount of memory it is using until it runs out of memory.
I gather it’s being looked into.
Kind regards,
Sean.
Sean; Thanks for the Info, I’d like to see a more Solid Version myself. Just loaded it and seems like a Good thing.. WSJR ( I think it is) would be nice Also…
Just trying WSPR in OSX, looks good but I can’t work out which ttyUSB I should use for my interface. I am using a DigiMaster MiniPRO for data and a DigiMaster USB CT62 CAT interface.
In the Setup window, I am only offered ttyusb0 – ttyusb8 but when I look to see where they are mapped
[ls /dev/tty.*] I’m shown
/dev/tty.usbserial-A600dwYd and /dev/tty.usbserial-A700ffli
If anyone knows how to get around this I would be grateful!
73 DL7FP Francis
I have exactly the same problem, I have been through ttyusb0 to ttyusb8 and nothing works. My USB to serial converter works fine with other software on the mac so I am not sure what to try next.
Any ideas please.
73 de G4FXE Rob.
I’ve got it to run and last night it stayed up and active for 2 hrs and was still up this morning – but up at 1GB of mem.
I closed it, started it again and now it crashes at the end of it’s receive cycle with:
10/11/2011 14:21:57 [0x0-0x1225224].net.nh6z.wspr[85283] At line 34 of file wfile5.f
10/11/2011 14:21:57 [0x0-0x1225224].net.nh6z.wspr[85283] Fortran runtime error: No such file or directory
10/11/2011 14:21:57 [0x0-0x1225224].net.nh6z.wspr[85283] ******************************************************************
10/11/2011 14:21:57 [0x0-0x1225224].net.nh6z.wspr[85283] WSPR Version 2.21_r2288, by K1JT
10/11/2011 14:21:57 [0x0-0x1225224].net.nh6z.wspr[85283] Run date: Thu Nov 10 14:18:17 2011 UTC
10/11/2011 14:21:57 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[220] ([0x0-0x1225224].net.nh6z.wspr[85283]) Exited with exit code: 2
Real shame, because this looks like it could be a great port and apart from the memory leak and it crashing now, was fine. But right now – WSPR on my Mac (iMac 10.6.8) just isn’t viable and I don’t have the time or skills to fix it!
73 de M0XDF