TelescopeMan gives his top 5 list of the essential ham radio software. He uses these several times each week when operating his radios. They are very useful to have available on your ham shack computer.
Thanks Telescopeman. Used have a Grundig worldreceiver in the seventies, gave it away, but with your first package I can pick up shortwave-listening again, plus I'm gonna download WSJTX and figure out that works. Good work, this video.
Hi there! I'm looking at getting my amateur radio license, and for being on my computer all the time this really helps! I appreciate the videos you post!
Great stuff Joe. Also recommend "YAAC", Yet Another APRS Client. Free, currently in Beta release. Good way to learn about APRS. Lots of features for the APRS community. I use it a lot.
Thank you for the informative video. I'm not licensed yet, but I'm reading the ARRL study guide when time allows. I picked up Baofeng 5rv5 and an Icom ID 5100-A to start with. I'm thinking that I'll probably add an Icom IC-7100 to round out my mobile with HF capability as well. I grew up with a base station CB with an Antron 99 on a Rohn tower running very illegally talking to my dad who was a trucker back in the 80s and 90s. It worked for our purposes well but I didn't realize as a kid that what we were doing was illegal. I've always enjoyed the radio and now at 40 years old my interest has sparked back into it once again. Living in Southeast GA I think this will be a smart move with our frequent hurricane evacuations. My wife and I each run a Ranger RCI-2950 to keep comms between vehicles in evacuation situations. (That's what we ran on the base station too but with a lot of juice behind it.) I'm looking forward to taking my test and getting on the air. Take care.
I have an unopened SDR and went to download a free free software package. I chose one and it consistently refuse to let me download it. It gives me to a 140 item. Can u tell us a good free SDR. Software pack. Any help of suggestion would be appreciated.
He doesn't list the apps in the description below the video. I see a bunch on your screen @1:59 that I could use for my setup. I was able to find a few on the list by searching and matching the icons, etc. Some are obsolete or not supported and some are upgraded.
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Thank you for sharing these programs. The first one, Ham clock I dont find usefull at all really. I and most other amatuers I know already have their computer clock set on UTC. If one is commited enough to Ham radio one stops using local time and go UTC fully. Second program could be very usefull if one is a SWL/DX listener which I am not. However I am going to download it and use it for my sailboat. Nice to hear a human voice on the oceans. Third one, FL digi I never heard about. There is a huge amount of psk31 softwares, Ill look into this one. Nowadays I prefer FT8. I will download it and give it a go. Fourth one, this was something new. Not much of a DX net user but I sure can see the benefit of this program if one likes the DX nets. Fifth one, WSJT-X is awesome. Using it daily. Cant keep wonder what they are going to come up with next. 73
@@haqinai No but our local club is hosting a daily radio net at 10 am, and our region ARES is doing a once per week net on 40 meter near 7.277 at 6:50 pm central time.
If you are a Windoze user, These look like very good software to have. I am a Linux guy, Linux offers way more pre installed HAM software, including Chirp.
There is no such thing as the *__bottom__* of the comment section. Each user sees the comments in different order, according to RU-vid's adaptive sorting order. What you see first and/or last is not the same as what other people see. It was a lot faster and easier for you to edit the description of the video. But, instead, for some mysterious reason you decided instead to post multiples times in the comments "go see at bottom", which is not useful for viewers and took you far much time and effort. Sorry, but that's not smart at all.
Telescopeman thanks for the video but two comments. #! you are 2min 50 into the video before we know what any one of the software packages is. that is 85% of the video itself.#2 I will google for all of these but why not put links to the software packages in your description so anyone viewing does not have to have the extra step of googling for that software?
This video was in my RU-vid recommended page... Most of your favorite packages were originally written for nonWindows systems, and still better outside of Windows. This includes over half of Ham Radio Deluxe. Meanwhile the author of HRD refuses to cross-compile his originated stuff for other systems. Which is dumb, as these days Windows as a market environment, isn’t even the dominant OS anymore. I know the authors’ thoughts because he responded to my question on the matter, via email. More importantly, using Windows for specialized I/O, is an adventure in instability and inconsistency. These problems do not happen in other systems. Good luck with yer hobby, but Windows usage of these packages keeps me from watching this video. Moving on now!
Sorry you feel that way but I am running 4 different computers all Windows 10 and never had any issues with Windows running amateur radio software. All the programs mentioned in the video (along with dozens more) run 100% all the time without issues. 73
Law it is on 3 of my computers wiith no issues. Norton is notorious for giving false positives on unknown software. I have not used Norton for about 10 years now. 73
Hope you saw that the links are shown several times in the comment section. The actual software is free. Your $130 link is not the correct link...see the comments.
