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While AH6TD is fundamentally an Apple Macintosh station, I have been interested in an absolutely incredible piece of software, free software, called Ham Radio Deluxe. For the longest time, however, I have been unable to use the latest version, version 5, because it was astoundingly unstable. No more. Ham Radio Deluxe 5 is alive and well at AH6TD. . . . To read the rest of this article, please click here: → Ham Radio Deluxe 5 Alive and Well at AH6TD Something near and dear to my heart, since I have been an engineer in the computer industry for about 25 years now, is software. Another thing near and dear to my heart, since I have been licensed as a Amateur Radio operator for over 30 years now, is Amateur Radio. Combine the two, and how can you possibly NOT have a winning combination? :-) At the heart of my current Amateur Radio station is the Elecraft K3. My trusty Kenwood TS-440S is still here, standing by. While the Kenwood is the third Kenwood I have loved in my tenure as a Ham, the Elecraft has absolutely taken over as . . . To read the rest of this article, please click here: → Software and Radio CW Skimmer is a specific piece of software, created by Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA. It receives and decodes all CW signals in a given receiver passband (typically 3KHz). Below is a screenshot of what it looks like, taken from the website http://www.dxatlas.com/CwSkimmer:
It provides a waterfall display as it decodes the signals. It can decode up to 700 signals simultaneously if one’s computer has the horsepower to support that. As seen above, it finds the callsigns from each of the signals and labels each signal appropriately for easy recognition by the operator. It can be used with traditional tranceivers or receivers, or with software defined radios. It . . . To read the rest of this article, please click here: → What is a CW Skimmer? |
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