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Getting into FLDigi contesting - a quick A-Z tutorial

This time during my amateur radio adventures, I wanted to try out the "old" "legacy" digital modes, such as PSK, RTTY, OLIVIA, HELL and so on. Unfortunately, there is not much activity anymore - my best chance would be at a contest. Fair enough I thought, let&

Station Locations in Wavelog and POTA

GERMAN VERSION BELOW — DEUTSCHE VERSION UNTEN While some radio amateurs mainly operate from their home shack and maybe have worked from 10 different locations in their entire life, there is also the other faction. The busy souls, the antenna-handicapped at their home QTH, the outdoor operators. The latter don’

Der CBR Import in Wavelog - Warum und wie [Deutsch]

Häufig wird die Frage gestellt: „Was ist der CBR-Import in wavelog und warum brauche ich ihn?“ Dieser Blogbeitrag beleuchtet das Warum und das Wie dieser Funktion.

The CBR Import in Wavelog - Why and How [English]

Often, the question "what is the CBR import in wavelog and why do I need that?" is asked. This blog post examines the why and how of this feature

WSJT-X 3.0.0 RC1 - FLRig does not work anymore

I just upgraded to the first release candidate of WSJT-X 3.0.0. Unfortunately, WSJT-X on opening greeted me with the message that my CAT control does not work. I went to settings and FLRig was gone from the RIG list. After a bit of googling I found

Feeding high quality audio files for the IC7300s voice keyer

In THIS POST, I showed you how to key your IC7300s voice keyer using a COM command from N1MM. But sometimes, you wanna have real nice sounding audio for that CQ call - maybe even alter it a bit in audio processing for that extra ooomph that a recording with the

How to key IC7300 internal voice keyer using N1MM+ CAT commands

Are you SSB Contesting with an IC7300? Using N1MM+? Still using the display or even the very expensive contest console to trigger the internal voice keyer? Not anymore! After hours of digging, I found a not really well documented CAT command for the IC7300, allowing to key the voice keyer

Install TQSL on Ubuntu Linux

So on Linux, if you like to have a current version of TQSL, you have to build it yourself. Sounds scary? It isn't, with this tutorial.

Funkamateur Essentials - Ein Einblick in den Alltag für Newcomer. Was brauchst du? Was brauchst du nicht?

Dieser Artikel gibt Denkanstöße, welche Services, Software, Hardware und Informationen du als neuer Funkamateur verwenden bzw. ggf. veröffentlichen solltest. Was brauchst du als Newcomer, was braucht du nicht?

Different logs and configs in WSJT-X for different callsigns

Sometimes a amateur radio operator not only operates his personal callsign, sometimes, he operates a special event call, a club station, or another personal callsign he owns in another country. For each of this possibilities, you wanna have different logs and maybe even a different configuration for WSJT-X. Of

Getting WavelogGate to run on the Raspberry Pi

Recently, I wanted to use my IC9700 a little more, so I established a VHF FT8 station using a Raspberry Pi 5. As I'm using Wavelog now as my daily logging software, I'm using WaveLogGate as a connector to send my FT8 QSOs to Wavelog. The

Linking a remote N1MM+, WSJT-X or JS8 to CQRLog

I keep my own complete log in a software called CQRLog. I love the ease of it, especially the ease of doing LOTW and eQSL, as well as the fact that it's based on a MySQL-Database, which opens up all kinds of fun for myself (as a

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N1MM CAT control using FLRIG

First question: WHY? Why would you want to do that? Using flrig to control your radio has benefits: You can just point programs who support flrig to use flrig for CAT control and have flrig handle the connection via COM port to the radio. This also has the benefit that