Supported modes are rtty baudot code, ascii 7 or 8 bits, psk31 bpsk and qpsk, bpsk63, qpsk63, bpsk125, amtorfec sitorb, navtex, multifsk16, multifsk8. You will find it helpful to create a windows shortcut to this file and put it on your desktop, or the task bar or some other easily accessible spot. It can be used standalone to observe aprs traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, aprstt gateway, or internet gateway igate. Some say it is the same sound card that is in the yaesu scu17, yaesus equivalent of the signalink device. Telephone text messaging and new sound cardbased digital conversation modes, such as psk31, cut into the attractiveness of packetbased keyboardtokeyboard conversations. When you right click on the agw tray icon you can select this option. Those values are only used for other modes, such as psk31. About sound card packet the resource is currently listed in in a single category. The interface works with software and your computer sound card instead of a traditional, expensive hardware tnc. The main category is packet radio operations that is about. Sound card drivers download for windows free driver. If you must use a different sound card input,then youll have to set. Com73 if that is what rms express and hw virtual serial port are set to goto top agw packet engine. Listed under the software morse code decoders category that.
Packet goldmine software by the hundreds from hams net. Soundmodem is compatible with all programs that work with the agw packet engine agwpe. It must be running before uiview or other software that requires it is opened. The packet engine professional edition for windows operating systems is a handy utility for any amateur radio enthusiast. Missing or corrupt soundcard drivers can cause problems such as no sound or crackled or distorted sound. Attempting soundcard packet using article posted on september 12, 2015 by kevin direwolf soundcard packet on linux, with ax25 and linpac. The receive audio rxa from the radio going in to the sound card needs to be connected to line in. You might have all of tnc features via soundcard using soundmodem. Mrp40 is a powerful and highlyeffective ham radio software program that decodes received cw audio that has been fed to a computers sound card. The following circuit is a description of the circuit and software needed to make the connections between your computer and your radio. Hfpacket and uhfpacket ax25 are supported in kisstnc emulation mode.
Soundmodem is a multiplatform soundcard packet radio modem written by thomas sailer, hb9jnxae4wa. Kb1oiq andys ham radio linux version 23 has been released. One of the softwares we recommend is outpost packet massage manager. Arsfi, a nonprofit public benefit corporation if you use winlink email, or correspond regularly with someone who does, please donate to arsfi. You only need a transceiver and computer pentium100 or better with a sound card. Using a sound modem tnc for vhf packet in winlink express. Rtty software, digital mode ham radio amtor, psk31, ax25. Dire wolf is a software soundcard modemtnc and aprs encoderdecoder. If you want to do aprs packet the best software is uiview16 for computers uiview32 for computers 100 mhz. After working with this setup and experiencing decode problems i found another nice piece of software that is part of agw packet engine and that is the sound card tuning aid. Software for packet radio use category is a curation of 32 web resources on. Resources needed for winlink express windows computer, windows 7 10 winlink express hf radiowith data sound portor builtin sound card optional computercontrol port civ, cat for rig control signalink or similar usb soundcard interface appropriate cables to connect interface to radio all software isfree except vara, but donation is. This software is the packet sound card engine required by uiview aprs software and some other sound card software. Hamscope is a freeware windows multimode communications package for amateur radio that supports.
Winpack packet software free registration required packet. Using pc soundcards as packet radio modems dos and win95 setup info, schematics for ptt circuits using a com port, parallel port, game port and even a vox circuit. Agwpe does not use the typical windows add or remove programs install routine from the control panel start settings control panel add or remove programs. The decoded text is displayed on the computers monitor. Mmtty also creates a couple of files to store its settings, if you use rtty. Ft991 setup for digital modes with only a usb cable. Hit ok until it asks you to restart agwpe and then click the twin tower icon and select exit.
Windows computer with soundcard interface signalink usb or equiv uz7hos soundmodem ver 0. This amateur radio web site explains how to use the agwpe utility program to send and receive packet using the sound card of your pc instead of a tnc. Rigblaster the rigblaster connects your radio to your computers sound card. And satellite packet activity eclined simply because there have been fewer satellites with packet capabilities. Hf packet and uhf packet ax25 are supported in kisstnc emulation mode. It makes amateur packet radio available to any ham with a vhf tranciever and a soundcardequipped computer, at little or no expense. The iss international space station or ariss has packet capability in the form of a kenwood d700 with an integrated tnc 2 meter and 70 cm frequencies, but the crew also uses the radio for voice, sstv, and crossband voice repeating. Sound card packet tnc computer to radio interface kb3kai. Compatible with dxbase logic 7 rylogit trxmanager yplog.
Qtmm is a simple afsk1200 decoder that uses the computers sound card for input. Selfec sitor, amtorarq sitora and dtmfcode decoding is also possible. It can be used to decode packet radio, aprs and telemetry from amateur radio satellites. The software packetradio tnc i am developing a software dualport packetradio tnc that uses a soundcard as a modem and supports ax. A program for amateur radio digital communications via a sound card. It can also be used with other software for aprs, bbs, satellite packet, and regular packet work. Please see the sound card packet site, by ralph milnes kc2rlm, for more info on packet operation using agwpe and hamscope. Direwolf soundcard packet on linux, with ax25 and linpac. Packet software agw packet driver sv2agw packet radio driver, runs tcpip protocol over radio, support windows 9598nt and several devices like baycom and, e5dxl 9600 g3ruh compatible modems, drsi and sound cards by sv2agw george rossopoulos. These problems could also be the result of improper configuration or incompatible hardware. Agwpe sound card packet engine free and pro versions available buxcomm rascal interface and more troubleshooting. There is soundcard packet software available for dos, and most modern operating systems including ms windows, the focus of this article. For more information, look at the bottom 14 of this page and in. Until recently, hf packet radio had been more or less overlooked by the sound card developers.
I am developing a software dualport packetradio tnc that uses a soundcard as a modem and supports ax. You can chat, sendreceive email, surf the web and so on via radio depending on your bandwidth. Extract the files into the agwpe folder you have created. The main barrier to running packet aprs on a raspberry pi has been the lack of good experience with sound card modems on it. For detailed software hardware setup info for the soundcard packet modem, see. For agwpe port, select the agwpe port that is controlling the sound card, but note that you would select 0 for the port agwpe calls 1. From the programs simple to use interface, you will be able to use your sound card as a physical terminal node controller by using the tnc sound card set up wizard, which will automatically set up your serial port, sound card and configure your radio ports. Adding to the axports file 1 km3d 1200 255 2 2m packet was not problem, but i ran into trouble enabling an ax25 port it is not persistent. It has been tested on windows xp, vista, 7, 8, 10 and has proved stable in operation. The software allows a standard pc sound card to be used as a packet radio modem with all processing done on the main computer cpu. However, the ft991 also do fsk rtty as well as cw, with its built in sound card something that the signalink cannot do. A sound card driver is software which enables communication between your computer and your audio card. Mixw32 for psk31 another page supports psk31, rtty, cw, packet, contesting, callbook recognition as well as cw transmit and cw receive. Packet and aprs belong to the large family of digital modes.
It is the easy and modern way to get on the air with psk31, sstv, rtty, amtor, packet, cw, contest voice keying, hscw meteor. Uz7ho develops a software dualport packetradio tnc that uses a soundcard as a modem and supports ax. With a neat little piece of software called agwpe your sound card can be a tnc for packet among other things. Sound card packet this amateur radio web site explains how to use the agwpe utility program to send and receive packet a digital data mode using the sound card of your pc instead of a traditional tnc terminal node controller, a radio modem.
Once the program has been run once, it creates a i file in the windows directory usually c. Many hams have expressed an interest in soundcard packet radio, and this is understandable. Sound card to radio interfaces category is a curation of 78 web resources on, interfacing to pc soundcards, rttyafsk interface for android phone or tablet, ftmp interface. Kc2rlm sound card packet a must read packet primer. We did get the agwpe software, and full credit to sv1agw for making a free version available, but while it worked very well for vhf packet radio it was never a stellar performer with 300 baud hf packet. Winlink is an allvolunteer project of the amateur radio safety foundation, inc. Messages shorter messages in aprs are sent over the air as a series of alternating tones. You do not need to change any other values on this screen, such as ptt control setup or sound card selection. The agw packet engine agwpe agwpe home page is a very versatile tool with many functions. Conventional wisdom has been that it doesnt have enough horsepower to handle the dsp routines required to decode packet and other modes like psk31, etc. Easyterm for windows a communications program for aea and kantronics tncs sound card packet by kc2rlm.
Agwpe is widely accepted in the amateur radio packet software community and is a tool that provides a standard interface between packet radio software and associated hardware. Also, if you recently upgraded from one version of windows to another. The kc2rlm sound card packet page is an excellent information resource. One of the first multiplatform sound card packet radio modems was coded by thomas sailer. It can be used standalone to observe aprs traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, aprstt gateway, or internet gateway igate in the early days of amateur packet radio, it was necessary to use an expensive terminal node controller tnc with specialized.
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