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Another Ham Pup.

#81 Post by DaveWBX »

Hi Guys.

I can conform fldigi is an easy to get going app in Puppy, but...

I'm trying to get the jPSKmail app to work with it.

To that end, I need to get a working JRE on my system, and have failed miserably so far. See this thread I started earlier for details.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56934

Anyone here know what went wrong, and how to make it work?

The old compaq laptop works OK with fldigi, and has real com and lpt ports, as well as USB (if needed) And a good battery!

Any help/advice welcome. Intended use is to keep in touch from odd events, where mobile phone coverage is naff, but I have a 706mk2g on hand with an ATAS or wire and ATU.

73.

Dave G0WBX(G8KBV)

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#82 Post by eztuxer »

Nice soft !

Works fine with 4.1.2.

THANKS TTUUXXX :D

73 ON4YD

Will get QRV again soon with my good old DRAKE TR4-C and home made 40 m CW QRP TRX ...
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#83 Post by tlchost »

eztuxer wrote: Will get QRV again soon with my good old DRAKE TR4-C and home made 40 m CW QRP TRX ...
http://www.zerobeat.net/drakelist/

73,
Thom k3hrn

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#84 Post by picatrix »

Hi all,

is there a fldigi .pet compiled for the superb (thanks ttuuxxx!!!) 2.14X?

73' IW4CAG Andrea

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#85 Post by eztuxer »

tlchost wrote:
http://www.zerobeat.net/drakelist/

73,
Thom k3hrn
Tnx fer link Thom.

The following quote is no disguised advertising, just showing off on my part as the lucky operator of this higher quality american made product:
Company History

R.L. Drake was founded in 1943 by Robert L. Drake, a young engineer with a significant background in radio design for major industry concerns. The company began as a manufacturer of low pass and high pass filters for the government and amateur radio market. After World War II, the company applied its engineering expertise to the consumer market and started producing amateur or "ham" radio transmitters and receivers.

The company's amateur products soon became known as the "Cadillacs" of the ham radio field. Many of the Drake receivers, transmitters, and transceivers manufactured in the fifties, sixties, and seventies are still in active use today. Collectors and Drake aficionados will often pay twice the original market price to add such an item to their "Ham Shack".
Drake is to Kenwood what Harley Davidson is to Suzuki, a way of life ! 8)
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#86 Post by tlchost »

eztuxer wrote: Drake is to Kenwood what Harley Davidson is to Suzuki, a way of life ! 8)
Yep....there is also a Drake mailing list that I maintain...you'll find information about it on the web page.

As soon as I get my antenna back in operation, I'll get one of the TR7s on the air...

73

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#87 Post by Aitch »

Hi guys

For anyone interested there's a Drake TR3 on ebay - 5 days to go, less than $10!!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34uactk

Aitch :)

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#88 Post by tlchost »

Aitch wrote:Hi guys

For anyone interested there's a Drake TR3 on ebay - 5 days to go, less than $10!!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34uactk
Why not have a direct link to the ebay item...who needs two clicks?

Untested, No Power Supply.

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#89 Post by Aitch »

Why not have a direct link to the ebay item...who needs two clicks?
mainly because ebay get enough PR/links without my free help....

also the long links mess up the page

To say untested, no PSU reminds me of several bits of expensive kit I have bought over the years

Half the fun of radio when I used to mess with it was figuring out how to get something working.....

times change....eyesight fades...things get smaller..... :wink:

Aitch :)

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#90 Post by tlchost »

Aitch wrote:
Why not have a direct link to the ebay item...who needs two clicks?
mainly because ebay get enough PR/links without my free help....

also the long links mess up the page

Somehow the logic escapes me....seems like no matter how you do it, you're giving ebay free publicity.

I've seen people use things to shorten links...much more efficiently that pointing folks to another page that lets them visit yet another page.

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#91 Post by Aitch »

yes, but you don't know where you're being re-directed to....

hence the preview version of tinyurl I used lets you see where it goes...

but I don't wanna row about it - sheesh, just trying to help....

different strokes for different folks, OK?

Aitch :)

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#92 Post by tlchost »

Aitch wrote:yes, but you don't know where you're being re-directed to....
Oh dear....

Of course a diredt link of the ebay page would have solved that problem...but as you say different strokes for different folks.

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#93 Post by edoc »

The QSSTV Linux app for Slow-Scan TV has been upgraded to 6.0-Alpha after no public releases for several years:

http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/snapshots/index.html

Has anyone tried this with Puppy?

I would be especially interested in a PET that would play nicely with Fluppy.

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#94 Post by drspastic »

hi from M0XEK

i have had good working with hampup but its based on puppy 3 and i need more hardware support.
hampup has PSKMAIL and FLdigi great packages but its time for a new puplet with all the best ham software on an sfs file. i would say lets build it with 511 because it covers all the hardware issues.
at the moment i run puppeee betas and 511 on my eeepc and have several ways to connect to my ft817 and would be glad to test anyones compiles on my setup.

I am suggesting first to compile a list of ham software that should make it into the project, so a digimode (prob fldigi is the most reliable), several hamvoip protocols starting with echolink for its popularity, a logging and contesting package that links to qrz.net etc. some voice recording/loopers to automate tiring cq calls, and a nice realtime audio processor and filter box. pskmail is a must for seafarers and remote dxpeditioners to access basic email and text based web info via HF. Some satelite tracking, EME and meteorscatter predicion, gps and APRS with repeater info and lists of popular local frequencies. repeater ops software, antenna calculators, a utc clock in 24hour format, synced to a server or better still gps clock standard. and a nice sstv!

here is a link to pskmail site, a brilliant puplet so far. http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/NEWS

strip out all the office bloat and games along with other nonessentials but keep xorg for easy changing between keymaps.
as ham tend to pack up the kit and go on adventures a lot, desktop should be kept suitable for small screen laptops and tablets,
puppy is an excellent base for hams as we have lots of old pcs and junk we loath to throw.

73!

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More pets for hams

#95 Post by pa0r »

New stuff on http://hermes.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pskmail/puppy_pets:

fl_libs.pet 25-Dec-2010 22:02 3.9M
fldigi-3.20.pet 17-Nov-2010 17:06 1.3M
fldigiconfig.pet 11-Dec-2010 14:34 18K
gcmwin-3.1.6.pet 31-Dec-2010 13:17 5.4M
gcmwin_voacapl-0.5.7.pet 05-Jan-2011 10:14 14M
gpsd_xgps.pet 04-Jan-2011 12:03 288K
jPSKmail-0.8.6.pet 04-Jan-2011 12:13 4.8M
jre-1.6.0.22.pet 25-Dec-2010 15:38 36M
lynx_elinks.pet 11-Dec-2010 13:08 1.8M
openssh-server-5.1p1.pet 31-Dec-2010 11:54 206K
perl-5.10.1.pet 10-Dec-2010 18:11 6.9M
pet_tools.pet 11-Dec-2010 13:20 17K
pskmail_server-1.0.28.pet 24-Dec-2010 12:09 1.7M
pskmail_server-1.0.29.pet 01-Jan-2011 12:58 1.7M
tightvnc_viewer-1.3.9.pet 03-Dec-2010 09:04 51K
x11vnc_server-0.9.4B.pet 03-Dec-2010 13:53 418K
xastir-2.0.1.pet 25-Dec-2010 22:01 4.3M
xdx-2.4.2.pet 04-Jan-2011 13:21 103K
xlog-2.0.3.pet 04-Jan-2011 13:43 9.7M
zyGrib-3.0.5.pet 04-Jan-2011 11:56 19M

All based, and tested on puppy-5.1.1

73,

Rein PA0R

http://www.pskmail.com

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#96 Post by futurnet »

in puppy 5.X its really easy to run hamradio Linux software cause 5.X is fully compatible with ubuntu lucid repository. Just click 'n install with all dependency nedded, from package manager. :D

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#97 Post by drspastic »

yep, the puppy iso's on the hermes server have it! excelent work
i am getting a pskmail server up and running after i sort out some issues on save files.

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Re: More pets for hams

#98 Post by paule »

pa0r wrote:New stuff on http://hermes.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pskmail/puppy_pets:

fl_libs.pet 25-Dec-2010 22:02 3.9M
fldigi-3.20.pet 17-Nov-2010 17:06 1.3M
fldigiconfig.pet 11-Dec-2010 14:34 18K
gcmwin-3.1.6.pet 31-Dec-2010 13:17 5.4M
gcmwin_voacapl-0.5.7.pet 05-Jan-2011 10:14 14M
gpsd_xgps.pet 04-Jan-2011 12:03 288K
jPSKmail-0.8.6.pet 04-Jan-2011 12:13 4.8M
jre-1.6.0.22.pet 25-Dec-2010 15:38 36M
lynx_elinks.pet 11-Dec-2010 13:08 1.8M
openssh-server-5.1p1.pet 31-Dec-2010 11:54 206K
perl-5.10.1.pet 10-Dec-2010 18:11 6.9M
pet_tools.pet 11-Dec-2010 13:20 17K
pskmail_server-1.0.28.pet 24-Dec-2010 12:09 1.7M
pskmail_server-1.0.29.pet 01-Jan-2011 12:58 1.7M
tightvnc_viewer-1.3.9.pet 03-Dec-2010 09:04 51K
x11vnc_server-0.9.4B.pet 03-Dec-2010 13:53 418K
xastir-2.0.1.pet 25-Dec-2010 22:01 4.3M
xdx-2.4.2.pet 04-Jan-2011 13:21 103K
xlog-2.0.3.pet 04-Jan-2011 13:43 9.7M
zyGrib-3.0.5.pet 04-Jan-2011 11:56 19M

All based, and tested on puppy-5.1.1

73,

Rein PA0R

http://www.pskmail.com
Hi Rein,

The GCMWIN packages seem to be missing, are they available elsewhere?

cheers, Paul - VA7NT

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Digital SSTV - Native Linux

#99 Post by edoc »

This sounds like a neat app - I had been told there was nothing for SSTV that was currently-supported and Linux-native.

I'd like to use this with Squeeze 5x9 Exprimo (and future releases of the Puplet) - does that appear possible from either of the compiles they offer? Or would it be a huge project to make it Puppy Squeeze-friendly?
software Suse 64 bit(rxamadrmv0_2Suse64.tgz)
software Ubuntu 64 bit(rxamadrmv0_2v64bits.tgz)
http://pa0mbo.nl/ties/public_html/hamra ... index.html
FEATURES

L.F. Audio Input
Uses HB9TLK's HAM DRM standard modes A, B and E (compatible with WINDRM etc.)
Uses ALSA soundsystem that is available in most Linux distributions
Monitors reception quality with PSD, FAC and MSC-Constellations, freq. offset, and SNR
Shows reception progress with current received segment number and total number of segments
Graphical User Interface can easily be adapted to one's own tast (Tk/Tcl)
Includes standalone console application for all real-time data-acquistion and dataprocessing
Data-acquisition and data-processing routines written in standard C
GUI written in Tk/Tcl
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Cmedia CM119 Driver for Linux?

#100 Post by edoc »

Anyone have the Linux driver for a Cmedia CM119 sound device?

There is supposedly one here but I cannot get it to download:
http://www.bioticaindia.com/cm119.html

Driver name: cm119
Device type: Sound Card
Manufacturer: C Media
Date: 13 October 2009
Version: 4.1.2

Download C Media cm119: cm119 drivers Download

File name: cm119-driver.4.1.2.zip File size: 298 KB

Supported OS:windows driver: Ubuntu Linux, Win. 2000, Vista, ME

It is for this: USB Virtual 7.1 Channel External Sound Card Adapter
- 4 function keys
- Features 2 x 3.5mm microphone and speaker ports

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Posted by nikolauzi on 5/11/2011
I bought this one to build a digital storage oscilloscope.
Freeware can e.g. be found under the name "zeitnitz", which is a fine program!
The CM119 inside has, unlike most other soundcard controllers, no digital highpass
inside, which means that it can measure also DC, if the input capacitor is removed
(can be found easily on the PCBoard).
Then it works on your computer with a bandwidth of app. 15kHz, which is enough
for many purposes of DIY electronics.
The "Zeitnitz" tool also adds a two channel signal generator and FFT function!

Bottomline:
Great for DIY purposes, but also works good as a simple soundcard

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-virtua ... pter-59077
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