Amateur radio, space technology and other geeky stuff by Alexandru Csete
Hej Allan, Jeg har overvejet K2 for et stykke tid siden, men nu er jeg mere interesseret i software radioer, så måske en K3 🙂 Min HF2V har det stadig fint. Der er kommet noget skidt og snavs på det, men det har endnu ikke haft mærkbar påvirkning på SWR. Det kan være fordi temperatursvinget … Read more
Do you even wonder how the sky might look like from the surface of the Moon? I certainly did so recently and here is what I learned… We had some discussions on the Team FREDNET public forum about using the stars and the planets for guidance and navigation on lunar surface. Of course, it raised … Read more
Can a wannabe graphic artist like myself do anything nice when playing with free software on GNU/Linux? I let you decide for yourself.
On November 7 ESA has launched its own YouTube site in a new initiative to communicate even more widely with the general public by using the latest social media channels.
Note: This page is now obsolete since I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition on the Eeepc. This opens the door to use all ham radio applications available for Ubuntu!
Eeeham dedicated to ham radio applications on the Asus eeepc. The idea is to have a set of Linux ham radio applications built on a host computer and packaged and configured so that they can be run off an SD or USB disk on the eeepc. User data related to the applications shall be stored on the same disk. I think this is a good approach since it will keep the eeepc system disk clean of my experiments.
If you consider yourself to be an advanced Linux user, or maybe even a free software developer, you will find the information on this page useful. Latest Source Code If you want to try the latest source code you should get it directly from the CVS repository. This page gives you detailed instructions on how … Read more
Web Forum Gpredict has its own forum on forum.oz9aec.net where you can ask for support or discuss anything related to gpredict. You have to subscribe in order to post your comments and questions. Mailing lists The groundstation-user mailing list is intended for everything related the installation, use, and discussions of grig. Announcements of new releases … Read more
There is a manual page which you can read by typing man grig in your terminal. The manual page is reproduced below. NAME grig – graphical user interface for the Ham Radio Control Libraries (hamlib) SYNOPSIS grig [OPTION]… DESCRIPTION Grig is a simple Ham Radio control (CAT) program based on the Ham … Read more
Currently, I can only guarantee installation support for source package, although binary packages may be available from third parties. Brief installation instructions and notes are given below. Please also study the documents available in the source package. Source Packages The latest source distribution can be downloaded from the SourceForge download area. Unpack the source package … Read more
Grig offers you a simple, fast and easy to use graphical interface to your radio. And it offers you the same user interface regardless of what kind of radio you are using. Grig will not try to mimic the look and feel of a particular radio front panel, instead it tries to offer you an ergonomical graphical user interface.