Please take a look at a really cool piece of software: wfview! If you have a ICOM radio, now there is an alternative to the ICOM RS-BA1 remote controlling software. The cool thing about wfview is you can run it on almost every platform (Linux, MacOS, Windows etc) since it is open source and you can compile the source yourself.
You are welcome to contribute! Please take a look and tell us what you think.
Besides the new radio and new radio room I am quite active on FT-8 lately. But because I am a lazy person, I want things to go smooth an not put much time in repetitive tasks. Keeping your logbook up to date is such repetitive task. Running Ubuntu linux as my main operating system Continue reading
My latest acquisition to the shack is a RaspberryPi-3. A great birthday gift to get! I already owned two RaspberryPi-1’s and one RaspberryPi-2. One of the RaspberryPi-1’s is doing a great job to put out the telemetry of my weather station with Xastir. I wanted the RaspberryPi-3 put to work as a WSPR-decoder as extension on my latest project: the 30m WSPR-RX. Still working on tweaks for the RX though.
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