I was wondering if there was ever any Amateur Radio software developed for BeOS? I have done a few searches and not really turned anything up.
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Perhaps some software by TuneTracker Systems?
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It looks like they do broadcast radio, I’ve seen some of their stuff and its neat that Be still occupies that niche. I’m talking about hobbiest amateur radio. (Ham radio).
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That would be cool if we had some software to use under Haiku. I have a few SDRs that I have to use Linux for the apps.
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Just out of curiosity, for those of us who don’t share your hobby, what exactly do you need a computer for in ham radio? Maybe we can figure out some workarounds.
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I have programs that can decode passing weather satellites and decode the images… other apps that can control my USB SDR and act as a tuner. There’s DMR all sorts of stuff…
Lotsa stuff! Back when personal computers got popular in the 1980’s, amateur radio starting using them. These days, the majority of amateur radio activity is probably using computers. There’s a lot of digital modes which use a soundcard, transceiver, and an interface connecting the two. The vast majority of those digital modes use USB soundcards instead of the computer’s onboard sound, so if USB audio can be made to work in Haiku, it would go a long way in getting the various software working. A lot of the software is Linux-native and installed via command-line, with versions for Windows and Macs as well. The only amateur-related thing I used in BeOS and Haiku was Serial Connect which I used to connect to a hardware packet-radio TNC. I almost got YAAC (Yet Another APRS Client) working in Haiku because it uses OpenJava to run. It would be great to be able to use Haiku for amateur radio, and I bet it would attract some folks to get involved with Haiku development. A partial list of amateur-radio software that is Linux-native:
Direwolf
FLDigi
JS8Call
BPQ
WSJT-X
And if WINE works in Haiku, then most amateur radio software that is Windows-native would run, at least they do when I run them in WINE on a Linux machine. But Haiku would need USB-audio working. Quite a lot of USB audio devices being used in amateur radio use the C-Media CM108 and/or CM119 chip.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about APRS!
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Good news then. Basic USB audio devices (USB audio 1.x devices) should be working in beta5. I don’t know about CM119 but my headset is CM108 based and works quite well with nightlies. Though, I don’t really use the mike.
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