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I’ve been taking a look at running Direwolf on my Mac to use my new FTX-1 for some Packet Radio. I’m currently stuck trying to diagnose whether Direwolf is getting any audio or not – it’s not decoding anything so I’m suspecting it’s not. The FTX-1 over USB is working flawlessly with WSJT-X so I …
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I gave a presentation on Packet Radio for my club, River City Amateur Radio Communication Society this week, here’s my slides from the presentation:
This is a continuation of part 1 here. To summarize the required steps to setup ax25 and Direwolf for software based packet radio, here’s the minimum steps need to get up and running: Install libasound2-dev and libudev-dev: sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev sudo apt-get install libudev-dev Clone the source for Direwolf, then build and install: git …
I’ve played with VHF packet quite a bit but never experimented with HF packet. As an experiment I decided to start up my HF radio today and tune to 14.105 LSB with the UZ7HO software packet modem and leave it running during the day to see what I could hear and decode. Turns out there …