Hello from the Eighth Doctor
Is anyone using their system running the current release of Slackware to manage
their Ham radio activities? I am especially interested in soundmodem applications.
Specifically the Soundblaster product.
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Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net

The Eighth Doctor wrote:

> Is anyone using their system running the current release of Slackware
> to manage their Ham radio activities? I am especially interested in
> soundmodem applications. Specifically the Soundblaster product.


Well, the Extra portion of 10.1 has a "ham" directory. All of the
programs there have a long history of working with a variety of
configurations and hardware. Soundmodem in particular worked with
older soundblasters, I have no idea if it works with newer soundblaster
cards.

I might also suggest you try http://radio.linux.org.au/ for different
amateur software.

The Eighth Doctor wrote:

>Hello from the Eighth Doctor
>Is anyone using their system running the current release of Slackware to manage
>their Ham radio activities? I am especially interested in soundmodem applications.
>Specifically the Soundblaster product.
>----
>Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
>
>
>
Are you thinking in terms of PSK? That is fairly old hat stuff. I had
started a program to control my 840 with an emulated radio face on the
screen (doing other things at the moment) so that stuff is doable. I
built a soundblaster i/f stuff for collecting data. Do you need
something specific? There are a lot of logbook control programs on the
web but they don't need SB.
Ron

On 2005-05-07, Razzel <logicon@zipcon.com> wrote:
> The Eighth Doctor wrote:
>
>>Hello from the Eighth Doctor

>>their Ham radio activities? I am especially interested in soundmodem
>>applications.
>>Specifically the Soundblaster product.
>>----
>>Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
>>
>>
>>
> Are you thinking in terms of PSK? That is fairly old hat stuff. I had
> Ron

Suppose you need to be a little more specific and think you probably already
know about this page for it contains a collection of some of the most
popular software and links:

www.n9nu.net/linux/linux.php

As for myself, I am using gMFSK for digital modes and find that it performs
quite well on most of the modes in use. Although I don't use gnome on my
computer, I copied the gnome libraries from my Slackware 10.0 distribution
disk which the program needed and all is fine. The above page covers almost
all aspects (although not all programs) of ham programs in use so might help.

Incidentally, I am using this on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-45 computer which
contains a Yamah sound chip using Alsa, Slackware 10.0 with fmwm2.

....Edwin, KD5ZLB
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