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KB1OIQ - Andy's Ham Radio Linux
Ubuntu Linux remastered for Amateur Radio users
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Last Update: 2021-03-06
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Version 21 - last version to support 32-bit
Version 23 released: 12-Jan-2020 (icewm) 64-bit
Version 24d released: 06-Mar-2021 (xfce4) 64-bit
This is a remastered version of Ubuntu Linux based on Ubuntu 18.04.5.
This version contains a lot of amateur radio software including Fldigi, NBEMS, Gpredict, earthtrack, xcwcp and qrq, XLog and cqrlog, flrig and grig, xnec2c, fl_moxgen, aa-analyzer, owx, VOACAP, glfer, Xastir, gqrx, gEDA, GNU Radio Companion, quisk, direwolf, linamc, FreeDV, wsjt-x, js8call, Micro-Fox 15 Config, and a TinyTrak3 configuration program.
This software collection uses the Xfce desktop environment with menus customized for Amateur Radio use. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and visually appealling.
Recommended minimums: 2GHz CPU, 4GB memory, and 15 GB of disk space
Features
Live medium which can be installed to the hard drive or USB thumb drive
Xfce desktop environment
Contains a large number of amateur radio programs
Amateur Radio menu customized for ease of use
Nothing proprietary (as far as I know)
Software came from the Ubuntu repositories, PPAs, and source tar files
Software defined radio receiver with RTL2832 USB dongle
Micro-Fox Config GPL and TinyTrak3 Config GPL
GNU Radio Companion and gqrx
FreeDV (free digital voice)
Packet radio software linpac and AX25
pskmail client and server
digital radio mondiale
Learn CW via the Wordsworth method
FT8 via wsjtx and AlarmeJT
js8call
Arduino IDE and libraries, plus Fritzing
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Project Activity
1 day ago
Andy Stewart created a blog post
Version v24e is in progress
1 month ago
Bill Hunter posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
I just realized that I should have posted this in Help rather than Open Discussion. Sorry about that. I should also have mentioned that I'm running v24 dated May 16, 2020. I know just enough about Linux to be dangerous to myself. Permissions seem correct to me, so if you don't mind, I'll ask you to double-check them for me. I've attached a screenshot so you can see the colours. In similar fashion as above, all deeper subdirectories are drwxrwxrwx, and files are -rw-rw-rw-.
1 month ago
Andy Stewart posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
On 8/29/21 6:50 PM, Bill Hunter wrote: Hi Andy, First, thanks for the great OS for Ham Radio! Been using it for almost two years, after returning to Ham Radio after a 36 year-absence. (Ham Radio computer? Who'd-a thunk it?) I installed GridTracker on my AHRL v24 machine, but in order to be able to get it to retain my chosen preferences, I have to run it with sudo. Otherwise I have to reset my audio device every time I start the GT program. Also when starting GT, a very brief popup window opens...
1 month ago
Bill Hunter posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hi Andy, First, thanks for the great OS for Ham Radio! Been using it for almost two years, after returning to Ham Radio after a 36 year-absence. (Ham Radio computer? Who'd-a thunk it?) I installed GridTracker on my AHRL v24 machine, but in order to be able to get it to retain my chosen preferences, I have to run it with sudo. Otherwise I have to reset my audio device every time I start the GT program. Also when starting GT, a very brief popup window opens to tell me that my preferences can't be...
1 month ago
Andy Stewart posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
On 8/24/21 6:34 AM, Lee McDaniel wrote: Andy, As aalways...Thank you for great work. Question any idea on new release v24e ? ETA The group I am working with to get up to speed on Linux was asking. Thanks LEE WB4QOJ Hi Lee, I just finished restoring a 1942 Zenith 7S633 AM radio for a friend, so now I have more time to devote the AHRL. I am planning for version 24E to come out by mid-September 2021 (just in time for the ARRL New England Convention). It will still be based on Ubuntu 18.04 and is an...
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