Getting Started with DXLab
Welcome to DXLab! The DXLab Suite is a set of applications that support DXing activities. You can use them individually, but when multiple DXLab applications are running they detect each other's presence and interoperate automatically. One benefit of this approach is that you can learn applications individually. It doesn't matter where you begin, or what sequence you choose: start with one application that satifies an interest or need, and get comfortable with it. Then choose the next application that suits your fancy, and repeat the process. What's important is taking your time and having fun with it.
To get comfortable with a DXLab application, its recommended that you first scan its documentation -- either in PDF form (which you can print if desired) or in online form. The purpose of this scan is to create a mental inventory of the application's features that you plan to use first. It's important that you ignore all details and secondary features during this scan!; you can always return for the details when needed, and you can always return to scan for secondary features once you've mastered the most important ones. To search for specific information, use the appropriate application's PDF file. The PDF and online documentation are available via the Documentation table; each DXLab application also provides Help buttons that provide access to the online documentation.
After scanning an application's documentation, fire up that application, choose an interesting function, and refer to the documentation to help you configure the application to support that function. For example, if the application is Commander and the function is transceiver control, then the minimum configuration would be choosing a radio model, choosing a serial port, and setting that serial port's parameters. Then choose the next interesting function and get it going; repeat this process until the application is doing everything you need.
Increasingly, you will find introductory task-oriented guidance in this Getting Started with DXlab Wiki - Connecting an Icom Transceiver to your PC, for example. The list of topics below is your entry into this resource.
Tooltips are another helpful resource; these are popup explanations that appear if you let your mouse cursor hover over any user interface control in a DXLab application - text boxes, selectors, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.
At any stage, don't hesitate to post a question or suggestion on the DXLab reflector . Don't bother searching for previous posts that might answer your question; Yahoo's search facilities are too primitive to waste time doing that. No one will ever criticize you for asking an already answered question, or for asking a question whose answer lies in the documentation.
Windows 7 and Vista
Devices known to work with 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Windows 7 and Vista
Devices known to not work with 64-bit flavors of Windows 7 and Vista
Linux and Macintosh
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