Post AzDnE4wxnKVO1HCooC by kb6nu@mastodon.radio
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 (DIR) Post #AzDnE4wxnKVO1HCooC by kb6nu@mastodon.radio
       2025-10-14T17:57:08Z
       
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       I'm thinking of converting my #hamradio computer to #Linux, now that W10 is no longer being supported. Do any of you have a #Linux computer powering your ham station? If so, what distro and what, if any, logging software are you using?
       
 (DIR) Post #AzDnE6W5yCCYsWeOCu by mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
       2025-10-15T02:55:27Z
       
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       @kb6nu For portable ops, I'm running Fedora on my laptop with lots of ham software that's all just built into Fedora. (Not a big surprise that I would prefer Fedora, given my history getting Fedora started at Red Hat lo these many years ago.) I'm also running Wavelog on my home server (also running Fedora) using the official Docker deployment for all my logging and for the other hams in my family as well.However, my "shack computer" is a Raspberry Pi 5, and Fedora doesn't work well yet on the Raspberry Pi 5 (or at least didn't when I was installing it), always running the fan at full tilt, so I'm using Raspbian there for better hardware support, with all the same software I use on Fedora. I use WaveLogGate to keep Wavelog on the server aware of what is on my rig using its integration with flrig.Wavelog has no problem ingesting my ADIF logs from Ham2K Polo when I do POTA or other portable operation. I could also use Wavelog remotely if I have a good internet connection, but plenty of my portable operations I have sketchy internet, and Polo works great.I tried CQRlog but they are adamant about not integrating with QRZ and I push logs to LoTW, QRZ, eQSL, and Clublog; Wavelog supports them all. That means I don't have to care about where the other op wants to confirm QSOs; chances are one of those four will work for them.I'm still working up to actual contesting (still working on CW instant recognition at speed), and have been expecting to use Not1mm for contesting, but all I've done so far there is glance at some of the source code.