any radio hams on here

[jmrweb]

hi all

i was wondering if there are any radio hams on here with software running on ubuntu for the following:-

acars
packet
psk
sstv
logs

i want to do away completely with *******.

take care john g0bwg in sheffield uk

[lowracer]

I was browsing through Synaptic and noticed up near the top some amateur radio programs. Try searching in Synaptic for amateur radio or ham radio and see what comes up. Good luck!

[jmrweb]

hi thanks for reply and sorry for delay been tied up for the last week ill try that and see what there is

john in sheffield uk

[guitarist549]

Yeh,I'm Ross, KD5LPB. How's it going?

It'd be great if there was a callsign database or logging program on here... I'm going to have a look.

[emeraldjay]

N2NRV here, I haven't tried my pk-88 with Ubuntu yet. I don't even know if there are any packet stations in my area anymore. Most hams I know are using psk31; I don't even know if my old icom will handle it.

[n3gbz]

fb om de n3gbz

My last packet station used a Commodore 64! Had fun with it and have some fond memories.

Maybe next year will provide some opportunities to get active again and generate some amateur radio interest here!

I'll be on the look-out for new ham software.

[rrittenhouse]

acars - http://www.acarsd.org/ (?)
packet - Xcall
psk - gMFSK (MFSK, RTTY, THROB, PSK31, MT63 and Hellschreiber)
sstv - qsstv (although ive never used this one personally.. im sure there are others)
logs - xlog

Here are some software packages that do what you want. I'm sorry on acars and sstv because ive never used either of those.

Any more questions just ask! :)

~Robert Rittenhouse KC8TAD

[Duck2006]

nice to see hams still around and not all converted to the internet

[carney1979]

My personal favorites are:

gMFSK - Modes supported are - MFSK8 & 16 : Olivia : RTTY : Throb (1 2 or 4 TPS) : PSK31 (BPSK) & (QPSK) : PSK63 : MT63 : FELDHELL : CW

Xlog - If you run gMFSK and Xlog at the same time, anything logged in gMFSK is automagically transferred to Xlog.

qsstv - Played with this one, but never actually used it in QSO

Best of luck!

David, N1ZHE

[twas]

de W3TW

I'm using gmfsk / xlog on psk31 and mfsk.

Tom in Huntington Station, NY

[doobit]

Ku4IS here and I haven't tried any of the Linux stuff for hams yet. Sorry, but I'll get right to it!

[Iowan]

N0AM:
Also ran Commodore64 with Digicom - until I rebuilt the modem to work with Baycom.
nice to see hams still around and not all converted to the internet
Guilty as charged - rig is getting rusty since I spend most free time 'putering.

[Robert.Zapata]

I was browsing through Synaptic and noticed up near the top some amateur radio programs. Try searching in Synaptic for amateur radio or ham radio and see what comes up. Good luck!


That section dissapeared from my Synaptic. Anyone knows how to restore it..??

Also what to use for Packet Radio..??

Thanks

By the way I'm KE5BRE formerly XE2JBM.

[MkfIbK7a]

hmm disapeared?
sounds like you lost something from your repos....

[Jim Darrough]

acars - http://www.acarsd.org/ (?)
packet - Xcall
psk - gMFSK (MFSK, RTTY, THROB, PSK31, MT63 and Hellschreiber)
sstv - qsstv (although ive never used this one personally.. im sure there are others)
logs - xlog

Here are some software packages that do what you want. I'm sorry on acars and sstv because ive never used either of those.

Any more questions just ask! :)

~Robert Rittenhouse KC8TAD

Hi Robert, Jim, KI7AYhere. I installed Xcall with synaptic, which also installed ax25 libs but when I run it, I get an error about no ax25 port selected. Can you give me some ideas how to get it running?

Thanks es 73 de Jim, KI7AY

[BLTicklemonster]

Kf4smu here. Yes, look in the repository, there's tons of stuff.

My kenwood ts-180-s quit on me prior to getting ubuntu installed, and I haven't really tried to see what's wrong with it. I turn it on, and the display comes on briefly, then goes out. Probably something really simple to fix. I do have my 10 meter mobile, though, but gee, Mr. Weather decided to take my windom and gravitize it. So it's rolled up and stashed at present. I worked all continents with that wire!

I wonder if there's some study software with the new question pools for general and extra in repositories? I downloaded general, extra and the extra for post 06/31 yesterday and printed them all out and put them in a binder so I can get the rest of my priveleges, but I'd rather have it digitzed. other than a pdf on my machine, that is...

[Robert.Zapata]

Hi Robert, Jim, KI7AYhere. I installed Xcall with synaptic, which also installed ax25 libs but when I run it, I get an error about no ax25 port selected. Can you give me some ideas how to get it running?

Thanks es 73 de Jim, KI7AY

Rats....!! I'm having the same issue...!!! I connect my PK-88 to the COM1 in the computer and there's no way in the AX.25 tab to input: /dev/ttyS0..!!! Any ideas..?? In the Host -> Connection tab you can input the port but returns error: "Invalid port" :confused:

[BLTicklemonster]

If there's any HF folks out there, our locals hang out on 28.450 (seems they are finally tiring of vhf and want to go back a step)

[guitarist549]

Gah, I really need to get an HF rig. VHF is just getting boring to me.
Have any of you guys stumbled onto the W7DXX remote base? Very nice to use, especially from a dorm room.

Ross, KD5LPB

[guitodd]

Hello! Todd -KB7RQQ in Washington state.....

[kwacka]

As well as repos. using synaptic, try the "Linux Hamsoft Database" at http://radio.linux.org.au/

5B8BA

[jmrweb]

hi all
i know its along time since i put this on here but have been away from puter for quite a while
mrs had me decorating hi

didnt realise there would be so many hams on here.
ah well its a small world.

73 to you all and i will now get on with getting things running again.
john g0bwg in sheffield uk

[DarkW0lf]

KB3IMT

Any ideas for an Icom IC-T7H HT with a IBM thinkpad 380
Trying to get some life out of an old laptop
It doesn't have a net card, only the serial port.
I am interested in packet or psk31

[st33med]

I'm sorry, but what's a ham radio?

[DarkW0lf]

Amateur Radio, the original 'wireless' :-p
We have been called 'hams' for years now.

It's a hobby and emergency service, you can communicate all over the world with all sort of different folks. My farthest contact was in Qatar; and I can reach England with my HT [Handie-Talkie; you might use Walkie-Talkie (same thing)]. Though I'll admit that was a IRLP [Internet Radio Link Project] repeater.

With the internet there maybe some waning interest in Amateur but even with the lowest grade license (Technician) you get privileges on 2.4GHz (ie your 802.11b/g device) and there are projects combining PC's and Amateur. They already mentioned packet and SK31 [phase-shift-keying] with some others and there is also Winlink for Email delivery using Amateur Radio.

http://www.arrl.org (if American; your country may have it's own association)

[deridex]

Hi,

Well, seems like there is a lot of hams here.
Myself, SM7VRZ, is looking forward to trying the different Ham radio software in Ubuntu.
As soon that I got my antenna up for HF that is... :)

//deridex

[w4ett]

CQ de w4ett.....Lots of good stuff in the repos...also you might want to look at the FreeBSD Ham Live cd here....All the goodies available in OSS on a live cd distro:

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/ham-radio-on-freebsd-14564

Also a great webpage for linux ham software:

http://radio.linux.org.au/

There is a good IRC channel on Freenode #hamradio


73 de Don

[DarkW0lf]

I made a wiki page to collect information in one place about Amateur Radio under Ubuntu.
Anyone involved in those activities please fill free to contibute.
They are mostly empty, I just started, and it hardly includes everything.

I am right now tracking down homepages for those packages and listing them.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AmateurRadio

[w4ett]

I made a wiki page to collect information in one place about Amateur Radio under Ubuntu.
Anyone involved in those activities please fill free to contibute.
They are mostly empty, I just started, and it hardly includes everything.

I am right now tracking down homepages for those packages and listing them.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AmateurRadio

Good Job, Darkw0lf. Ive got a couple of bookmarks that I'll add in the next few days...it's a worthy project!

Good Luck

[jgrabham]

Often considerd it but then Id have to go on a course to get a license and Id have to spend a lot of money on equipment.

Dont know if its worth the hastle.

And of course theres the whole antenna thing which with my Mum might be a bit of a problem. (Im 15 btw, so living with parents for nearly 3 more years)

[DarkW0lf]

You don't actually need to take a course.
The books for each license is only $20 (USD), the exam itself is $7
And you can get a Dual-Band HT for as little as $200, and with an HT there is no antenna issue.

Search the internet for a club in your area, they usually have classes for free.

[DarkW0lf]

I found the pages I made moved to http://help.ubuntu.com/community/AmateurRadio
I don't know who JamesTaji is but he moved them today and the original wiki is blank with no message or link regarding the move.

[w4ett]

Often considerd it but then Id have to go on a course to get a license and Id have to spend a lot of money on equipment.

Dont know if its worth the hastle.

And of course theres the whole antenna thing which with my Mum might be a bit of a problem. (Im 15 btw, so living with parents for nearly 3 more years)

Yeah...licensing in UK is a bit different than in the US....the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) licensing page:

http://www.rsgb.org/getlicence/

[DarkW0lf]

w4ett:

Would you consider the help site or the wiki site as a better place for this kind of information ?

[w4ett]

w4ett:

Would you consider the help site or the wiki site as a better place for this kind of information ?

Probably the Wiki, IMO

[DarkW0lf]

I'll see if I can move them back.
This time I won't tag them.
Anything tagged CategoryDocumentation is encouraged to be moved to help
(though collaborating with the authors is not anyone's concern, apparently)

[DarkW0lf]

I moved them back.
But the same wiki editor is still messing around with them. (I use the term loosely, he admits as to having no official position)
If they are messed up again then forget the whole idea.
I can't work with a community that doesn't understand the idea or concept of collaboration.

So much for humanity towards others.

Since Amateur Radio is typically associated with Education I made a thread in the Education and Science sub forum.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=535498

[ka1eui]

Greetings all. I'm a Ham and although not new to hamming (20+ years) I am somewhat new to LINUX. I have used Fedora off and on for the past couple of years, but now I have stumbled across Ubuntu and I totally love it.

I am an avid Packet operator. I really love it. My favorite program of all time was a DOS program called Lan-Link. Have any of you heard of it? It's how I got started on packet and I just totally love it. When I switched over to Ubuntu I was sitting here wishing that there was a way that I could put Lan-Link on Ubuntu. Well today I setup DOSEMU on here and took a stab at installing Lan-Link and it went terrific! Well sorta . I have been able to get lots of DOS stuff working, and Lan-Link wants to install ....and it actually does install but then I get an error when it tries to find the COM port. Back in the DOS days I had a choice of COM 1,2,3 or 4 and I would choose it during the install process. Here on LINUX when I'm in DOSEMU and I"m asked during the install what COM port I want, I chose 1. Then when I run the program it starts up fine but has an error that it can't find the COM port. I'm sure that the reason is that LINUX handles the ports differently. Do any of you guys have any ideas how I can get my Lan-Link to see the COM port?

By the way what are COM ports called in LINUX?

Well thanks for any help and thanks for having me on here. Merry Christmas everyone!

Jim KA1EUI

[w4ett]

Here is a good tutorial and outline of serial com ports and the handling of interrupts in Linux:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html

Welcome to the community!!! :popcorn:

[ka1eui]

Thanks!!!

[g7kse]

I'll dip in with another question on this topic. Hope it's not in the wrong place....

has anyone either heard of or managed to get ham radio deluxe run with wine. Its a great program that I used with windows and would like to use it with ubuntu? I know there are linux altrenatives but i really enjoyed this one

Alex

[w4ett]

I'll dip in with another question on this topic. Hope it's not in the wrong place....

has anyone either heard of or managed to get ham radio deluxe run with wine. Its a great program that I used with windows and would like to use it with ubuntu? I know there are linux altrenatives but i really enjoyed this one

Alex

According to this article on eham.com
http://www.eham.net/articles/16192
this package is unlikely to be released for linux,,,,haven't tried it under wine, but might be worth a try.

Good Luck!

[ka1eui]

I like Ham Radio Deluxe and I really like WinPack for packet radio. I have tried Wine with my computer but I have a situation here where if I try to do ANYTHING with Wine my computer locks up tighter then a you know what.

If I try to configure Wine or even unistall Wine it freezes right up. I did uninstall it with package manager but I wish it would at least work a little!

Another ham radio program that I truly love is a DOS packet program called Lan-Link. I used it for years and really love it. I setup DOSEMU on my Ubuntu machine and I can run DOS programs beautifully but I can't figure out how to assign the "com ports" to Lan LInk ...it's looking for any of Com 1 through Com 4.

OK back to my soldering gun....by the way do any of you guys (or gals) hang out on HF?

73 Jim KA1EUI

[arvevans]

This URL might be of interest:


http://radio.linux.org.au/?sectpat=All&ordpat=title

Arv - K7HKL
_._

[g7kse]

I've finally given up trying to get HRD working with Ubuntu. it's not supposed to work and it certainly doesn't want to work...

Perhaps a linux alternative is about

[Papi-KB7VGW]

Unfortunately my rig died a few years back and I haven't replaced it yet.:(

[g7kse]

i can recommend the IC7000 if you're feeling flush. trouble is i can't get out of the garden for a QSO at the moment let alone over the pond

[Papi-KB7VGW]

Yeah, a buddy of mine showed me his brand new 7000 and while I drooled over it, the $$$$ are way more than I can afford...:)

[g7kse]

Its a great rig, I got mine on ebay for just a bit over half price and bought the 6-BTV I use from DX engineering whilst I was over in the US on business. Prices in the UK are about 3 times higher!

I've got a 703 running my beacon monitoring station which is a good basic rig but the 7000 blows it away. Now all we need is the same level of linux software thats available for windows. If i knew how to programme then I would help out but being a clanky, stainless steel is more my forte ;-)

[Dr Small]

I am not a ham right now (although I want to be later on), but what would be a good way to start learning morse code? I don't want to start out wrong, but I don't even know it by ear. Just picture me as a person who has just met Morse Code. I know only a few letters and numbers by ear, but that's it (and it has to be really slow for that..)

So, is there any apps anyone would recommend to help me get started, or a good way that helped you learn it?

Thanks,
Dr Small

[tretty]

likewise would like some ham progs for UBUNTU
de G6JTT

[arvevans]

Seems there are many Ham Radio persons using Linux and Ubuntu, including nyself ("K7HKL", licensed since 1956). Linux supports much work involving SDR (Software Defined Radio), including the SoftRock project (an abbreviated HF radio communications front-end for your sound card).

There are some Ham Radio specific programs in the repositories which are accessible via Synaptic, but there are also many individuals who have developed their own Ham Radio oriented software. Depending on what your Ham Radio interests might be, a Google search for "ham radio software" will get you more than a few URL leads. Don't stop with just Linux based ham radio software. Most of what is out there for Windows will also run just fine if you use the WINE compatibility suite to install it.

If your ham radio interests include equipment design and construction, there are many software tools that while not specifically ham radio related, are very useful:

ExpressPCB (http://www.expresspcb.com) for free schematic editor and PCB layout tool.
Eagle CAD (http://www.cadsoft.de), freeware or professional ($$$) version, for more involved schematic and PCB layouts.
Visual Analyzer (http://www.sillanumsoft.org") spectrum analyzer using your sound card.
ARGO (http://www.sdrham.com/bin/argopak1_134.exe") for QRSS activity (used for pico-power beacons and for EME activities).


These are just a few teasers to get you started. There is much, much more out there to play with.

Happy hamming, & 73's

Arv - K7HKL
_._

[kwacka]

A belated response to learning morse - check out 'learn CW Online' at http://www.lcwo.net/

As it says, learn using a browser in any computer.

[FireRabbit]

I've used soundmodem (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/soundmodem) in conjunction with xastir (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/xastir) for doing APRS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Position_Reporting_System

- KE7TNK

[piju]

join us here

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuHamsMembers

[bakechad]

I am not a ham right now (although I want to be later on), but what would be a good way to start learning morse code? I don't want to start out wrong, but I don't even know it by ear. Just picture me as a person who has just met Morse Code. I know only a few letters and numbers by ear, but that's it (and it has to be really slow for that..)

So, is there any apps anyone would recommend to help me get started, or a good way that helped you learn it?

Thanks,
Dr Small

I am currently study for my General ticket and am trying to learn morse code as well.

There are a bunch of morse code programs for Linux. I have been using aldo, which you can install via Synpatic. It runs in a terminal window and works very well.

Chad
KB9WVS

[m0dcm]

I've recently got back into the hobby, and since getting this Netbook for Christmas, I installed Ubuntu and I now operate the datamodes on 15m, 12m and 10m.
I run a Acer Aspire One ZA3 (Yup the one with the dreaded Poulsbo), FT-817ND, a dual band 5/8 over 5/8 144Mhz and 430Mhz, and a HF Dipole (soon to be improved!).
I use Fldigi and CQRLOG for HF and VHF Data and Xastir for APRS.
I've been looking for a good Packet Terminal app, but I've come up blank. I have tried Xarpm, LinAMC and Jnos but they're not that user friendly, does anyone know of any other Terminal based AX25 application?
I'm also going to be taking the Netbook and FT-817ND out portable in the near future, to see how things work.

If anyone would like a QSO on HF, let me know and I'll be there....

[piju]

join us on irc.freenode.net

and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuHamsNets

[donkyhotay]

Another ham radio operator here. I don't have a radio capable of connecting to my computer so I've never used any of the software in the repos.

[samalex]

join us on irc.freenode.net

and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuHamsNets

Awesome! I hang-out on #hamradio from time to time on Freenode, but anymore I don't have as much time to IRC as I used to. What was once a daily thing is now maybe once or twice a month.

Also I saw you guys have a net through Echolink... Just a note Echolink works quite well via Wine, which was nice to see. Installed with no problems, though I still don't think I have my mic settings working just right. The meetings are while I'm at work, but I'll try to join in the next Friday I'm off.

Take care --

Sam - K5LNX

[piju]

Awesome! I hang-out on #hamradio from time to time on Freenode, but anymore I don't have as much time to IRC as I used to. What was once a daily thing is now maybe once or twice a month.

Also I saw you guys have a net through Echolink... Just a note Echolink works quite well via Wine, which was nice to see. Installed with no problems, though I still don't think I have my mic settings working just right. The meetings are while I'm at work, but I'll try to join in the next Friday I'm off.

Take care --

Sam - K5LNX

thanks for joining
i seldom on forum, 24/7 on irc

[donkyhotay]

So what did everyone do for field day? I'll admit I didn't do much myself...