I’ve been a loyal paid supporter of HRD for a decade (back when contributions were voluntary, and continuing through all the paid subscriptions. Like many others, I suffered through the exploits of one of the owners, who was quite toxic, and was overjoyed when he was asked to move on. Immediately following that, life seemed to be wonderful with frequent updates.
One or two years ago, HRD released a update which broke the log program. The symptom was either a crash of the log, or very slow (40 second or more QRZ lookup). The owner group was rather quick to fix that.
Sometime late last year, another update broke the same way. There hasn’t been an update to fix things in months, and the processing of sub-modes for FT4 still hasn’t been fixed months later.
Bottom line is I am done. I’m so frustrated with Ham Radio Deluxe, that it is worth the effort to change over to another system.
Within an hour I have brought everything over from HRD into DXKeeper, part of the DX Suite of software. Lots of stuff to configure, of course, but I have things mostly working.
While I will miss the HRD Digital program that supported almost every digital mode, these days the world is mostly RTTY/PSK/FT8/FT4.
