HamFreeSBIE is a version of FreeSBIE specifically tailored to fit the needs of an Amateur Radio operator. As such, there is less emphasis on "normal" uses of a desktop user, i.e. you will not find openoffice on this liveCD-- FreeSBIE is the CD for you if you want to try a liveCD tailored to the average desktop user.
Some of the applications included are only available from the command line in a shell, these include aldo, yagi and gnuradio. Some are actually daemons that require setup, these include soundmodem and chu. Read the docs for these applications if you wish to set these up.
There are some slides on this CD from a talk I gave to the Ottawa Amateur Radio Club.
Do not contact the FreeSBIE people about problems with this CD, HamFreeSBIE is based upon the scripts and work done by the FreeSBIE project, for which I am very grateful. However, this is an independent work based on their work. All mistakes on this live CD are mine, Diane Bruce (VA3DB) <db@db.net>
| Application | Package description |
| Misc apps | |
| geoid (see locator in sat apps as well) |
Geodetic computer for amateur radio use.
Converts Lat / Lon to Maidenhead Grid Square and reverse Computes range in kilometers and great circle bearing between QTH and remote site specified by Lat/Lon or Maidenhead Grid Square Computes range in kilometers and great circle bearing between QTH and a site selected from a database list for all known callsign prefixes and their geographic position. Geographic position is by major city. WWW: http://www.w1hkj.com/#Geoid |
| aldo (shell app) | Aldo is a Morse code tutor.
At the moment it has four kinds of
exercises: Classic exercise, the Koch method,
Callsign exercise, and
exercises read from files.
WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/aldo/ |
| cwdaemon (daemon app) |
Cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses
the pc parallel or serial port and a
simple transistor switch to output morse code
to a transmitter from a text
message sent to it via the udp internet protocol.
WWW: http://www.qsl.net/pg4i/ |
| chu (daemon app) | CHU is a time-standard shortwave radio station
operated by National
Research Council Canada (NRC).
This software uses signals from radio
station CHU to set and frequency discipline the system clock on a
Linux (FreeBSD) based system.
WWW: http://www.rossi.com/chu/ |
| echolinux |
EchoLink client program for UNIX.
EchoLink is a VoIP package used in Ham Radio.
WWW: http://cqinet.sourceforge.net/ |
| Digital/DSP apps | |
| grig (shell app) | Grig is a graphical front-end to the Ham Radio libraries
written using Gtk+ and Gnome widgets by Alexandru Csete.
Part of the grounstation suite, it purpose is to control
an amateur radio transceiver from X. It supports any of
the transceivers that hamlib supports, including rpc.rigd
over the network.
The groundstation suite comprises Gnome-rig and Gnome-predict
and is intended to provide a low-cost amateur radio station
with the facilities of a high-end satellite station.
WWW: http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/ |
| fldigi | Digital modem program.
Supports the following digital modes:
CW,DominoEX 4 DominoEX 5 DominoEX 8 DominoEX 11
DominoEX 16 DominoEX 22,
Feld-Hell FSK-Hell FSK-Hell 105,
MFSK-8 MFSK-16 MFSK-16 pix ,
PSK-31 QPSK-31 PSK-63 QPSK-63 PSK-125 QPSK-125,
OLIVIA various tones and bandwidth,
RTTY various Baud Rates, Shifts, Nbr of data bits, etc.,
Throb-1 Throb-2 Throb-4 ThrobX-1 ThrobX-2 ThrobX-4,
WWV Receive only - calibrate your sound card to WWV and
Freq Analysis Receive only - be ready for the (next)
ARRL FMT (freq meas test).
WWW: http://www.w1hkj.com/Fldigi.html |
| kpsk | KPSK is a PSK31 digital radio communications
application for use by
licensed amateur radio operators and designed specifically for the
KDE 3.x desktop environment.
Features include: * Simple, feature-filled user interface * Simultaneous monitoring of up to four PSK31 signals * User-configurable waterfall colors, fonts. * Auto-scaling waterfall * Optimization to provide IMD data only when the measurement is valid * Twelve user-defined fixedtexts (TX macros), available by mouse or F1-F12 keys * Integral BerkeleyDB-based QSO logbook * BPSK or QPSK operation * Automatic and manual modes for calling CQ * Ability to send an ASCII text file * Extensive application documentation WWW: http://kpsk.sourceforge.net/ |
| gmfsk | gMFSK v0.5 - The Gnome MFSK terminal program
gMFSK is a multi-mode soundcard terminal program for HF amateur communications. Originally the program was written for compatibility with the IZ8BLY Stream program in MFSK16 mode. Currently the program supports the following amateur digital communications modes: MFSK16, MFSK8, RTTY, THROB, PSK31, PSK63, MT63 and FELDHELL. WWW: http://gmfsk.connect.fi/ |
| hamfax | HamFax is a Qt/X11 application for
sending and receiving facsimiles. It is
licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL),
see the file COPYING for
the complete text.
If you have questions or comments please send them to me
(cschmitt@users.sourceforge.net).
I would like to have some feedback.
WWW: http://hamfax.sourceforge.net/ |
| qsstv | SSTV decode and Version 5 supports FAX reception
WWW: http://users.pandora.be/on1mh/ |
| linrad | Amateur Radio DSP utility (SDR)
Linrad receives a signal in digital form by reading a
device. Currently Linrad
operates by sampling sound on line-in channel
of an audio card. In the future
boards sampling directly at RF frequencies will be available.
WWW: http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linrad.htm |
| wsjt | WSJT is a computer program for
amateur radio VHF/UHF communication
using state of the art digital techniques. Typical applications
include communication by meteor scatter and
EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) propagation paths.
WWW: http://pulsar.princeton.edu/~joe/K1JT |
| dream |
Dream is a software implementation of a
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) receiver.
All you need to receive DRM transmissions is a
PC with a sound card and a
modified analog short-wave (MW, LW) receiver.
WWW: http://drm.sourceforge.net/ |
| XAnalyser |
XAnalyser is a program to analyse
a stereo audio signal. It has two displays:
Frequency Spectrum
Using Fast Fourier Transform,
the time domain of the signal is transformed into
the frequency domain, i.e. the amplitude
(in logarithmic scale) of the
audio signal is plotted versus the frequency.
Either the sum of the
left and right channel of the audio signal can be shown or both
channels simultaneously.
XY Scope Roughly speaking, the audio signal of left channel deflects a point horizontally and the right channel vertically (just as the beam of a CRT would do). Thus, an audio signal only present on the left channel produces a horizontal line, whereas an audio signal only present on the right channel produces a vertical line. A mono signal produces a 45 degree line. A stereo signal creates a wild pattern (if the phase is correct, predominately in the same direction as a mono signal) or may even fill the entire scope. WWW: http://arvin.schnell-web.net/xanalyser/ |
| Audacity |
Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio
waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from
within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including
WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis. It supports all
common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste,
plus it will
mix tracks and
let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It
also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable
spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
analysis applications.
Author: Dominic Mazzoni dominic@minorninth.com
WWW: http://audacity.sourceforge.net |
| gnuradio (shell app) | GNU Radio is a collection of software
that when combined with
minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the
actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software.
What this means is that it turns the digital modulation schemes
used in today's high performance wireless devices
into software problems.
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ |
| Satellite apps | |
| gpredict | Gpredict is a satellite tracking and prediction application
written using Gtk+ and Gnome widgets by Alexandru Csete.
Part of the groundstation suite, its purpose is to track
the various amateur, weather and military satellites that
are of interest to radio amateurs.
The groundstation suite comprises Gnome-rig and Gnome-predict
and is intended to provide a low-cost amateur radio station
with the facilities of a high-end satellite station.
WWW: http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/ |
| predict (shell app) | This is a
satellite tracking program for amateur radio satellites.
Written by John A. Magliacane, KD2BD
WWW: http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html |
| locator (shell app) |
This is a program for translating maidenhead
grid squares to and from lat/long.
This is of most use to Amateur Radio
operators but may be useful to GPS users.
Originally written by: Harald M. Stauss harald.stauss@web.de DO1JHS @ DB0GR.#BLN.DEU.EU |
Logging apps |
| kb | The KB contest logging computer program runs
on the Linux operating system
with the Gnome desktop. The program is under development,
and currently
supports the CQ WW, CQ WPX, and ARRL DX contests, plus Field Day.
Features include on-the-fly dupe checking,
CW and voice message keying,
super check partial, packet (Telnet and rf nodes), networking, and
radio control (currently for the FT-1000 only).
The program is designed
to be used by U.S. stations,
with some support for Canadian stations.
New features and contests are being added regularly,
and I will consider
adding support for DX stations if there is sufficient demand.
WWW: http://www.k2ct.net/kbsoftware/kbsoftware.htm |
| trustedqsl (tqsl, tqslcert) | The mission of the Trusted QSL Group is to
keep eQSL an open and free
activity for amateur radio operators by promoting the
Digital Signature Standard (DSS).
WWW: http://www.trustedqsl.org |
| tlf |
Amateur radio curses based logging program.
WWW: http://home.iae.nl/users/reinc/TLF-0.2.html |
| xwota |
Xwota is a very simple Linux/FreeBSD/xBSD client
for the WOTA Database
(Who is On The Air Database) written by me (IZ0ETE).
It's very similar to a DX Cluster client,
but it works with the WOTA server.
If you don't known what is the WOTA DB, please read some info at
http://www.wotadb.org.
It's written in C and GTK, and it should work on the latest
Linux/BSD distributions.
Please report to me your successful installation.
(Linux, FreeBSD at the moment)
WWW: http://people.fabaris.it/iz0ete/xwota/ |
Design apps |
| geda-gschem | gschem is a tool to capture/draw electronic circuits schematics.
WWW: http://www.geda.seul.org |
| geda-netlist | gnetlist is the netlist
extraction/generation program which is part
of gEDA (GPL Electronic Design Automation) toolset.
This program takes a
schematic for its input and outputs a netlist.
gnetlist uses scheme to define
the output format.
Currently it supports the following backends:
1) Allegro netlist format (-g allegro) 2) BAE netlist format (-g bae) 3) BOM / BOM2 - Bill of Materials (-g bom and -g bom2) 4) Partslist1,2,3 - More Bill of Materials (-g partslist[1-3]) 5) DRC - Start of a design rule checker (-g drc) 6) DRC2 - A second design rule checker (-g drc2) 7) gEDA - native format, mainly used for testing (-g geda) 8) Gossip netlist format (-g gossip) 9) PADS netlist format (-g pads) 10) PCB / PCBboard (-g PCB and -g PCBboard) 11) gsch2pcb backend (-g gsch2pcb) 12) ProtelII netlist format (-g protelII) 13) Spice compatible netlist format (-g spice) 14) Enhanced spice compatible netlist format (-g spice-sdb) 15) Switcap netlist format (-g switcap) 16) Tango netlist format (-g tango) 17) Verilog code (-g verilog) 18) VHDL code (-g vhdl) 19) VIPEC netlist format (-g vipec) 20) Bartels Autoengineer netlist format (-g bae) 21) GOSSIP system simulation system netlist format (-g gossip) 22) MAXASCII netlist format (-g maxascii) 23) VHDL-AMS netlist format (-g vams) 24) Futurenet2 netlist format (-g futurenet2 ) 25) SWITCAP switched capacitor simulator netlist format (-g switcap ) 26) RF Cascade netlist format (-g cascade ) 27) RACAL-REDAC netlist format (-g redac ) 28) PCB actions file for forward annotating pin/pad names from schematic to layout (-g pcbpins) WWW: http://www.geda.seul.org |
| geda-symbols | symbols for gEDA
WWW: http://www.geda.seul.org |
| geda-symcheck | gsymcheck is the gEDA symbol checking utilty
WWW: http://www.geda.seul.org |
| geda-utils | Various supplementary utilities for gEDA system.
WWW: http://www.geda.seul.org |
| gsmc |
A program for doing calculation on Smith Chart,
similar in functionality to
xsmc but with a simpler user interface;
written with GNU/GTK library and
released under GNU/GPL. Written by Lapo Pieri IK5NAX
WWW: http://www.qsl.net/ik5nax |