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Friends. Effective December 1, 2022, I have made the painful decision to discontinue software development using Microsoft Visual Studio. When I first stated using Visual Studio and the .NET framework almost 20 years ago, it was a fantastic development environment. But over the years, Microsoft has bloated things so bad, it is becoming a very unmanageable development environment for the hobbyist developer such as myself.

Microsoft’s thrust appears to be to rid the world of any and all operating systems prior to Windows 10, and if they ever get Windows 365 out of development, I fully expect to see Windows 10 get axed.

The majority of the software that I develop is for the Amateur Radio kingdom and many of us still have older computers with Windows 7 operating systems that we use for this hobby.

So, I am returning to my original roots with Borland, Delphi and Object Pascal for continued development. The majority of the software that I develop will be converted, over time. A couple I will discontinue development, but those packages will remain in their current state, without further updates.

I am not the spring chicken I was 25 years ago when I set out on this endeavor, so this is not going to happen overnight!! But over the course of 2023 and 2024 I hope to have all of these project converted.

FCCLookup is the first development that I am working on. There will be a minor software update to the current build sometime prior to 12/15/2022. The replacement package will be CallView and is about 80% complete as of 12/3/2022. I hope to have this ready for distribution within the first 60 days of 2023.

If you would like to be a software tester, please drop me an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.