[Elecraft] Station computer OS

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mar 18, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Darrell Bellerive wrote:

> On March 18, 2007 08:48 am, Douglas Todd wrote:
>> I am considering changing my station computer's operating system   
>> from
>> Windows to Linux. Currently I use Ham Radio Deluxe for station  
>> control
>> and would like to know what Linux alternatives are available
>
> Take a look at http://radio.linux.org.au/ for a listing of ham  
> radio related
> software for the Linux operating systems.
>
> Also, I have found that the Debian distribution offers superb ham  
> radio
> support. Debian itself, I would not recommend to a new Linux user,  
> but some
> of it's derivatives are excellent, such as Mepis, and Ubuntu.

I second the recommendation of a Debian-based Linux distribution (I  
currently use Ubuntu 6.10).  While I am not aware of any Linux  
applications which perform some of the features of Ham Radio Deluxe,  
there are some pretty good applications out there.  I use TLF for  
contest and general-purpose logging and gMFSK for digital modes.   
Xlog and Klog are also good logging programs.  All of these interface  
with a large variety of radios using the hamlib library.  All of  
these are available  as Debian packages, which makes installation  
quite easy.  A new digital mode program which will be available in  
the next release of Debian (and probably its offspring) is fldigi.   
You can find links to all of these at the URL listed above.

73 - Bob, N7XY