[Linux-ham] FreeDV

[Kevin Otte]

I've received quite a few conversations there since I got my dipole up 
higher.

I rigged up another machine with the fdmdv_mod command line tool within 
the codec2-dev SVN tree to try and transmit, but alas have not yet 
worked anyone. I imagine things will go a bit more smoothly when I have 
everything on one box.

-- Kevin

On 01/22/2013 10:54 PM, David Black wrote:
> Sure, I'm up for that.
>
> Since the earlier posting, I was able to hear some QSOs on 14.236.
> You might want to listen a while on that frequency to test your setup.
>
> David
> AD6Q/4
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> My USB sound card should be here in a few days. Perhaps we can try some
>> 10 meters locally?
>>
>> -- Kevin N8VNR/4
>>
>> On 12/28/2012 11:37 AM, David Black wrote:
>>> Neat, thanks Kevin!
>>>
>>> Just checked out the latest SVN and am going to see about building on my
>>> Kubuntu 12.04 rig computer.
>>> On the waterfall 14.236 looks pretty quiet.  Anyone interested in trying a
>>> FreeDV QSO?
>>>
>>> Dave
>>> AD6Q/4
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> Completely free HF digital voice in 1.1KHz of bandwidth:
>>>>
>>>> http://freedv.org/
>>>>
>>>> If you attempt to build this thing, you'll see that the automated
>>>> scripts go and get a bunch of libraries on its own. I freaked out a bit,
>>>> and fought for about 2 hours trying to get it to use the system
>>>> libraries on Ubuntu 12.04. Sadly, FreeDV does need something from the
>>>> newer versions of each of those libraries. There is an effort underway
>>>> to make it run on wxWidgets 2.8 [1], which is good since that's the part
>>>> that takes the longest to build.
>>>>
>>>> Sadly I haven't been able to actually test the functionality since in
>>>> addition to the software fun I wrote about above, the add-in soundcard I
>>>> was hoping to use (an old SB Live! acquired from a hamfest) turned out
>>>> to be toast. I have it hooked up to my HF rig for receive only for now,
>>>> but I don't have an external HF antenna at the new house yet, so on to
>>>> the next step.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps some of you can make more progress and report back to the group.
>>>>
>>>> 73 de Kevin, N8VNR
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30216313
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