Control Rig control is the trickiest part because it depends on what radio you have. Many radio manufacturers supply their own software, but often community offerings are better.

The modern ham radio shack can take many forms. Some are shrines the “boat anchor” radios of old, named for their considerable weight. Others are simply a small, unassuming software-def… ...

The same’s true of nearly all ham radio infrastructure. When everything else fails (power, comms, roads), ham radio is still there. These days it can even be a full-fat digital medium.

Linux Journal 's Ham Shack Come chat with us about everything Linux and amateur radio related in our Ham forum (or see forum topics below). Listen to our podcast to hear editors Shawn Powers and Kyle ...

There are as many hackers in the Amateur Radio hobby as there are in Open Source. In fact you could call Amateur Radio the original Open Source project. A number of modern developments in Information ...

When a group of Navy engineers and software developers took time away from their day jobs in December, they spent the time pursuing a task long considered passe: they became licensed amateur radio ...

The premise was that if a software-defined radio could instantiate such capabilities as a communications modem, digital signal processing or networking through software, it would stand to reason that ...