Amateur Radio Software thread

[N8YX]

Since we don't have a dedicated sub-forum for these topics, this thread can be a catch-all for questions, comments and whatnot. Mods, if it gets enough traction then please sticky it.

I'll start:

Hamclock is a neat little application which shows an active day/night gray line display overlaid on a world map. Also has solar data, DX spots and other useful information. I have it running on a Dell 7139 which had Linux Mint 22 installed over the OEM Win10 setup. This is sitting above the monitor on which I'm posting.

Pro Tip: Make sure you start the program with logging OFF (via command line). Failure to do so will result in it filling up the 32GB flash RAM card which the system is using as a boot device. Failure to do so after installing the entire shebang again on the system's internal 256GB SSD will result in THAT drive filling up again.

Don't ask me how I know this. Logging in Hamclock is enabled by default. BAD choice in end-user space.

 

[BJ radionut]

I think I "Sticky'd It"...with so much Open source "stuff" nowadays...think this warrants a spot...Think Tim and Others should agree.

Hmm... Hamclock...I had a dear friend KT4RAM/Gregg sent the "mini" PC for that...Never seem to get it to work...but the Bandwidth " on my internet was barely handling two desktops. I am going to change to Verizon Wireless ...Plus Frontier was finally approved to be purchased by Verizon...so, maybe improvements are coming.

Tnx for suggestion, may try it agn
All the Best
Gary/W9FNB