On Monday 28 August 2017 07:26:54 Philip Hands wrote: > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > > ... > > >> There are about a dozen SDR programs for WIindows, almost nothing > >> for Unix. > Somebodies quoteing is broken, I didn't write that. I believe Alan Corey did.
> I've not really bothered with HAM stuff since I was playing with > Packet Radio before dial-up Internet became a thing, but I find your > claim that there's nothing much for Unix, suspicious: > > Long ago (early-mid 90s) part of what caused people to be interested > in Debian was the prospect of a HAM specific version (which didn't > quite happen, since Bruce Perens & Bdale Garbee got busy with Debian > in general). > > More recently: > > https://www.gnuradio.org/ > > Also, the likes of this: > > https://events.ccc.de/2015/07/10/rad1o/ > > I know for instance that a decade or more ago Bdale was using SDR on > Linux (or at least talking about someone he knew, in which case Bdale > probably set it up) to record the whole amateur band in one go. > > All of which suggest that there's more than nothing going on in the > world of *nix SDR. > > Cheers, Phil. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
