Category: Ham Radio Software

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eSoftAnywhere DSP & More

Posted on by Simone

This freeware software performs DSP (Digital Signal Processing) on audio signals received from an input line on your computer’s sound card. It is specifically intended for processing audio signals from short wave, amateur (ham) radios, or any other radio to “clean up” or improve the listening quality of radio signals. It can also improve radio…

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Zakanaka

Posted on by Simone

Zakanaka, a digital mode decoding and terminal program written by Bob Furzer, K4CY.   Bob is also the author of Logger, a logging program with a PSK31 decoding and terminal module that runs under Windows 95/98, Windows 2000, and Windows NT Was originally intended to decode PSK31, RTTY, and CW.   During November 2000, K4CY added RTTY…

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Antenna Maker

Posted on by Simone

A freeware dos program by John Agrelius released in early 90’s but still very actual. It allows to quickly calculate dimensions for Quads antennas, Yagi antenna, Inverted vees antennas as well as J-poles and Traps to extend dipoles band coverage. Just extract the antmaker.zip file and start the Menu.exe batch file.

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YagiMax

Posted on by Simone

Even if outdated, is still a good program to calculate and desing yagi antennas elements dimensions, sizing and spacing. I’ve used it to verify some antenna plans I’ve found on the net. It’s particularity is that you at first need to tell the  program the size of your antenna and then, you can calculate resonating…

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Yagi Designer 2.0

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The Yagi Designer program was first developed in 1992 on a DEC-Vax 3100 and written in Fortran, and the output was graphed in Mathematica 2.0.  It has since been converted into a DLL with lightning fast speed compiled in the C language.  It was written by a physicist that has always enjoyed dabbling in radio….

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