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ham radio ports

Contributed by Jason L. Wright on from the dept.

As it turns out there are several ham radio operators involved
in the OpenBSD project. I've had several ports in my tree for
a long time:

- xastir - APRS/GIS mapping program
- xlog - general purpose GTK logging program
- colrdx/xdx - DX cluster client
- hamlib - radio/rotator control library
- gpsk31 - PSK31 interface
- gmfsk - PSK31/THROB/RTTY/etc interface

More are on the way as they get tested and approved.

So, when I return from the hackathon, listen for me on the
air. 73 de Jason/AI4JW

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Comments

  1. By Hans Insulander (195.242.43.66) ... -- ----- ..- - -.-- on

    Cool!

    Maybe I should take up the ham-radio hobby again, haven't been radioactive for many years...

    73 de SM0UTY

  2. By Timo Myyrä (195.212.29.92) on

    Got urge to get a official radioamateur license now :)

  3. By Anonymous Coward (66.92.108.80) on

    It is fantastic to learn that my favorite OS supports ham radio software. I wonder if there are any CW programs in the pipe?

    73 from KC2HMU

    Comments

    1. By Jason L. Wright (66.38.248.100) jason@openbsd.org on http://www.thought.net/jason

      > It is fantastic to learn that my favorite OS supports ham radio software. I wonder if there are any CW programs in the pipe?
      >
      If I can find the source for it, I'll be importing flmorse (a morse
      training program I wrote that uses fltk). Already in the tree is
      morseplayer (reads stdin and writes morse to /dev/audio). Also in
      my queue is cwdaemon. So yes, stay tuned =)

      --Jason/AI4JW

  4. By Thoren McDole (128.95.196.94) on

    awesome
    KC7EJT

  5. By Catalin (87.192.77.82) on

    I like that!!!

    73, YO8RGT

  6. By Siju Oommen George (59.93.2.231) on

    There is something like
    http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/bsd-ham
    too for BSD HAM users :-)

  7. By WW2DX (70.110.104.120) on

    BSD Rules!

    SDR port maybe ;)

    73 GL DX,

    Lee
    WW2DX

    Comments

    1. By Jason L. Wright (66.38.248.100) jason@openbsd.org on http://www.thought.net/jason

      > BSD Rules!
      >
      > SDR port maybe ;)
      >
      Also coming soon. I've got one of the ettus research USRP radio's
      on order and also have access to an SDR1000 for tinkering.

      --Jason/AI4JW

  8. By Yves (87.194.39.146) on

    This is good. I'm hoping to experiment with Software Defined Radio but there is currently nothing on the Open Source front.

    Comments

    1. By Jason L. Wright (66.38.248.100) jason@openbsd.org on http://www.thought.net/jason

      > This is good. I'm hoping to experiment with Software Defined Radio but there is currently nothing on the Open Source front.

      It depends on how you define Open Source front, but look at
      the ettus research radios. The designs are all done in open
      source tools and are available in editable formats. The
      radio interfaces are well documented down to the FPGA level,
      and the software interface is GPL. I'm not sure how much more open
      you could get.

      --Jason/AI4JW

  9. By STeve Andre' (wb8wsf en82) (wb8wsf) andres@msu.edu on

    This is certainly cool. I had xlog in my tree too, but slacked
    too much to submit it.

    This raises an interesting possibility for a lot of hams who are
    coming to the realization that Windows isn't safe: if the the most
    used programs exist on OpenBSD, perhaps I can steer some hams to
    OpenBSD. Given that they don't know much of computers, a lot of
    them will go in the direction where they see things working. I've
    already gotten two hams using OpenBSD for general things, mostly
    because of the documentation.

    So I need to stop slacking and finish getting an sstv program
    running, and see about K1JT's WJST code.

    I wonder how many hams are using OpenBSD now?

    Comments

    1. By Marc Balmer (66.38.248.100) mbalmer@openbsd.org on www.hb9ssb.org

      > This is certainly cool. I had xlog in my tree too, but slacked
      > too much to submit it.
      >
      > This raises an interesting possibility for a lot of hams who are
      > coming to the realization that Windows isn't safe: if the the most
      > used programs exist on OpenBSD, perhaps I can steer some hams to
      > OpenBSD. Given that they don't know much of computers, a lot of
      > them will go in the direction where they see things working. I've
      > already gotten two hams using OpenBSD for general things, mostly
      > because of the documentation.
      >
      > So I need to stop slacking and finish getting an sstv program
      > running, and see about K1JT's WJST code.
      >
      > I wonder how many hams are using OpenBSD now?

      Well, I am...

      0x49, HB9SSB

    2. By Rolf Sommerhalder (213.160.59.44) on

      > I wonder how many hams are using OpenBSD now?

      Me too, HB9CWP

      Comments

      1. By Marc Balmer (66.46.110.137) on

        > > I wonder how many hams are using OpenBSD now?
        >
        > Me too, HB9CWP
        >

        I think we should found a clubstation and apply for HB9BSD...

    3. By Erik Mugele (ejm) on http://www.teuton.org/~ejm

      [snip]
      > I wonder how many hams are using OpenBSD now?

      How about an informal OpenBSD net on 20m?

      Erik - N5XYX

    4. By Anonymous Coward (193.92.202.46) on

      > This is certainly cool. I had xlog in my tree too, but slacked
      > too much to submit it.
      >
      > This raises an interesting possibility for a lot of hams who are
      > coming to the realization that Windows isn't safe: if the the most
      > used programs exist on OpenBSD, perhaps I can steer some hams to
      > OpenBSD. Given that they don't know much of computers, a lot of
      > them will go in the direction where they see things working. I've
      > already gotten two hams using OpenBSD for general things, mostly
      > because of the documentation.
      >
      > So I need to stop slacking and finish getting an sstv program
      > running, and see about K1JT's WJST code.
      >
      > I wonder how many hams are using OpenBSD now?


      i am using OpenBSD too

      73s de SV7JAK

  10. By Christian (195.145.135.21) on

    That's really cool!

    I'd like to see some more "Operating system here: OpenBSD" on the air.

    Keep on pushing! BSD and Ham Radio is a beautiful combination.

    FLDigi would be something on my wish list.

    vy 73 de Christian - DK5CH

    Comments

    1. By Jason L. Wright (66.38.248.100) jason@openbsd.org on http://www.thought.net/jason

      > That's really cool!
      >
      > I'd like to see some more "Operating system here: OpenBSD" on the air.
      >
      > Keep on pushing! BSD and Ham Radio is a beautiful combination.
      >
      > FLDigi would be something on my wish list.
      >
      > vy 73 de Christian - DK5CH

      fldigi looks nice, but it requires fltk2 which is painful for ports right now. Generally ports policy is that we follow stable branches, but fltk2 has been in development now for years with no end in sight. We may have to bite the bullet at some point and start tracking their fltk2 branch.

      --Jason/AI4JW

  11. By howipepper (171.161.160.10) on

    On the CW front, I noticed the Unix/Linux standard "cw/cwcp/xcwcp" were not in the OpenBSD ports collection. Any chance of getting them included?

    Comments

    1. By Jason L. Wright (66.38.248.100) jason@openbsd.org on http://www.thought.net/jason

      > On the CW front, I noticed the Unix/Linux standard "cw/cwcp/xcwcp" were not in the OpenBSD ports collection. Any chance of getting them included?
      >

      It is in my tree and needs major whacking. The shared library building in that package is hand built (for linux, which means it's wrong for us). I'd like to get it working... it's a dependency for modern cwdaemon. If someone can libtool-ize it, or otherwise fix the shared library handling and lemme know, that'd be great!

      --Jason/AI4JW

  12. By Wilfried Haeusle (85.126.142.45) on

    Hey, this are really GOOD news, Jason!

    Thank you and 73 de Wil, OE9WLJ

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