[HN Gopher] FOSS for Amateur Radio
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       FOSS for Amateur Radio
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2021-09-08 17:58 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (lwn.net)
        
       | nickysielicki wrote:
       | LWN usually has great content but they've missed out on so much
       | free ham software in this article that I use regularly.
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       | My main HF rig is an older Yaesu FT-950. I tapped the IF and
       | brought it out of the chassis where it is plugged into a cheap
       | RTLSDR. I then access that RTLSDR (with free drivers) with GQRX
       | (free software for visualizing anything compatible with SoapySDR
       | or GNU radio), and the result is that I get a panadapter that is
       | arguably better than what's available on $2000 radios. Short
       | video here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/uP9zMMbiiiSmHYvM8
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       | As for VHF/UHF stuff, I would be hopeless if it wasn't for
       | GPredict on my laptop making it simple to track LEO satellites.
       | https://github.com/csete/gpredict Short video here:
       | https://photos.app.goo.gl/eg87BWpt2XnJdGFp7
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       | I also run an APRS igate, which is powered by direwolf:
       | https://sielicki.github.io/posts/radio-scanner-aprs-igate/ ,
       | https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf
        
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