Release Notes/Known Problems
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Known Problems
R&S spectrum analyzers/receivers communication problems
It has been detected that on very fast PC’s, the communication with modern Rohde & Schwarz spectrum analyzer/receivers can be corrupted. These problems are related to the speed of the PC and the used GPIB bus. The R&S receivers that are related to this problem are: ESI/ESIB/ESPI/ESCI/FSE/ESU We strongly advise to slow down the GPIB communication speed between the PC and R&S receivers. This can be done by:
- Open the configuration window of RadiMation®
- Select the Device Drivers tab
- Select Receivers/Spectrum Analyzers
- Select the R&S receiver
- Press Edit to open the device driver configuration window
- Press the Advanced button
- Now the GPIB configuration dialog of the R&S device driver is shown.
- Activate the Show advanced Settings checkbox
- The GPIB Configuration dialog now shows a Wait time box
- Specify 3000 us in the Wait time box.
- Close all windows, and repeat these steps for each and every R&S receiver.
Configuring the R&S device drivers in this way will slow down the GPIB bus, by ensuring that at least 3 milliseconds delay are included between each GPIB call to the R&S devices
Previous RadiMation® version raises a run-time error
If the latest RadiMation® version and an older RadiMation® version are installed on the same PC, it can happen that the older RadiMation® version raises an error during the start of RadiMation.
This error is raised because a file that is shared by both versions is written in a newer file format that cannot be read anymore by older software. The solution for this problem is to remove the file: C:\Program Files\DARE Development\RadiMation\Confdvdr\CUSTOMIZ.DAT The CUSTOMIZ.DAT file is used to remember customizations of the colour of the graphs, so removing the file will not influence the measurements. However the graph colours will probably be changed to the defaults as specified by RadiMation®.
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Vista are not supported
Due to the fact that Microsoft has ended their support for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP we are also forced to stop the support of RadiMation® running on the Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP operating systems. In addition also the Windows Vista operation system is not officially supported by us. This means that we do not test if RadiMation® is working correctly on these operating systems. However it could be that RadiMation® is still working correctly. We strongly suggest upgrading your operating system to Windows 7 (32-bits or 64-bits) or Windows 8.1 (32-bits or 64-bits).
