John and Ken that did the trick. I ended up trying the easiest option first since I already had device manager up and it worked like a charm. I'll look into Arduino for some options for the lcd project. I keep my Thunderbolt right beside my frequency counter and leave both of them on all the time attached to a good UPS. The counter has a Rubidium oscillator in it but I use the output from the thunderbolt at times as well. My master plan is to build a box for the rack with a low phase noise multi channel distribution amplifier to feed to my other equipment with the 10MHz signal. How my racks are setup the LCD should give me all the info I need in most cases. Sometimes the lady heather software is just too much info. I do like the satellite tracking though. That is a cool feature. Thanks, Major

Look into the TI Lauchpad. It is about the same idea as Arduino but they start at $4.30 (shipped) and the larger ARM based one is still under $18. I'm sure TI loses money on each one they sell Those little 2x16 LCD displays are easy to use but you can make them much nicer by adding a rotary shaft encoder to make it work like a "scroll knob". It is a very intuitive control for a user and easy to program. Then you can have things like satelite info and so on, untill your controller runs out of RAM On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Major L. McGee III <majorm@sc.rr.com> wrote: > John and Ken that did the trick. I ended up trying the easiest option first > since I already had device manager up and it worked like a charm. > > I'll look into Arduino for some options for the lcd project. I keep my > Thunderbolt right beside my frequency counter and leave both of them on all > the time attached to a good UPS. The counter has a Rubidium oscillator in > it but I use the output from the thunderbolt at times as well. My master > plan is to build a box for the rack with a low phase noise multi channel > distribution amplifier to feed to my other equipment with the 10MHz signal. > > How my racks are setup the LCD should give me all the info I need in most > cases. Sometimes the lady heather software is just too much info. I do > like the satellite tracking though. That is a cool feature. > > Thanks, > > Major > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California