About Us
From KB5JBV:
I have been an Amateur radio operator since 1988. I am currently an Assistant Section Manager, Official Observer, Official Relay Station, Official Emergency Station, VE Technical Specialist for the ARRL here in the North Texas section. I am also an ARES AEC and RACES assistant radio officer for the city of Mesquite, Tx.
I was first licensed for Amateur Radio in 1993 as N1UYE. After a couple of call sign changes, I picked K5TUX because I love Open Source as much as I love amateur radio. I am most often found 2m nets in the Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas areas. I also work a lot of 80m SSB and 15m CW. I am a systems administrator for a telephone company in Arkansas and we provide service to customers using the Open Source philosophy and Linux operating system.
Together, we are the co-hosts of Linux in the HAM Shack, a podcast designed to help amateur radio enthusiasts to migrate to Linux and Open Source from Microsoft or other closed-source software. Our goal is to provide a sound foundation in Open Source and demonstrate how it can help amateur radio operators participate in many of the best parts of the hobby, from DX clusters to D-STAR to PSK31.
We hope you tune in and enjoy the journey with us every other Tuesday , and send us your comments and other feedback. We definitely want to hear from YOU.
73 de Russ and Richard
OGG
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Great Show,, BTW I am N7NUQ… I am on a personal quest to rid my life of all MS products, so to me your the man…..
Rob.
Just thought you could help me. I am interested in D*Star on Linux ,Richard hook a fellow Ham up with your vast wealth of knowledge.
How to build fldigi on Ubuntu 9.10 X64
regards
k6***
1: get source tar balls
# cd /usr/local/src
# sudo bash
# [sudo] password for hamradio:
# root@hamworkstation:/usr/local/src#
Browse to http://www.w1hkj.com/Downloads.html
Copy link of source tar ball.
Paste link into root shell with the wget command.
# wget http://www.w1hkj.com/fldigi-distro/fldigi-3.11.5.tar.gz
# enter
Extract tar ball
# tar -zxf fldigi-3.11.5.tar.gz
Browse to http://hamlib.sourceforge.net/download.html
Copy link of source tar ball.
Paste link into root shell with the wget command.
# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/hamlib/hamlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
# enter
Extract tar ball
# tar -zxf hamlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
2: Get Software Dependencies
# apt-get install libxml2-dev tcl libfltk1.1-dev libxmlrpc-c3-dev pulseaudio libpulse-dev portaudio19-dev libsndfile1-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev
3: Building hamlib
# cd hamlib-1.2.8
# ./configure
# make
# make install
Test run hamlib rigctl with the settings for your radio.
# /usr/local/bin/rigctl
4: Build fldigi
# cd /usr/local/src/fldigi-3.11.5
# ./configure
# make
# make install
5: Run fldigi
Open new terminal shell hamradio@hamworkstation:~$
# /usr/local/bin/fldigi
Have fun and good luck
P.S.
Check your paths.
/usr/bin/fldigi will be a different version then /usr/local/bin/fldigi
How to build fldigi on Ubuntu 9.04 X64
you need to add libsamplerate0-dev to part 2:
Do any of the Ham Radio digital protocols support full TCP/IP?
Ca I load blacksparrowmedia.com over my UHF/VHF Radio?
Love the show!!!!
-ZZ
Great to find your podcast! I’m going to be catching up on the “back issue” podcasts.
Have been a GNU/Linux user for a number of years and an active ham…though inactive the last few years…hoping to “re-activate” this spring.
Noticed a new contest logging programme for GNU/Linux…have been watching and waiting for some good contest logging software…about the last reason I can think of for keeping a Windows box around.
Cheers & 73
I just got an iPhone and was excited to see there is a ustream app for it.
However only pre-approved streams can be found on it. They apparently want to make sure it meets certain conditions. It looks like lhs and rf streams
would qualify. You guys might want to look into making your streams available in the iPhone ustream client.
-Don
Here is the info:
Ustream works hard to provide the highest-quality shows on the iPhone. Therefore Ustream shows appearing in the viewing application must meet the following criteria:
-not broadcasting nudity of any kind
-not broadcasting vulgar content
-not broadcasting content that you do not own the copyright to
-not broadcasting any illegal activities
-adhering Ustream’s Terms of Service
-adhering Apple’s iPhone Terms and Conditions
-having a show logo
-having at least 1 recorded video
If you feel that your stream meets this criteria, please email
networks@ustream.tv with your username, a link to your stream, and a
description of your average broadcast.
Thanks so much for the information, Don. I have sent a request to USTREAM to get Linux in the HAM Shack added as one of the approved feeds so it can be downloaded via the iPhone app. We’ll let you know how it goes!
- Russ, K5TUX