>>> HF <<< 
ham radio shortwave PACTOR AMTOR GTOR RTTY MT63  program 
with F6FBB mailbox interface
Hallo friends, 
HF is a gtk+-based linux ham radio fsk digimode program,
which can do also the realtime ARQ modes without a ptc, 
only with a soundcard and a pc and linux, all of which need not be the newest. 

The heart of the program has originally been made by Tom Sailer, many thanks Tom! 
> > > DOWNLOAD< < < 
There are some great things in hf:
     
  • hf's terminal hfterm can connect via TCP/IP with the BBS mailbox program F6FBB (well-known from packet radio), so you can use hf as an automatic pactor / amtor mailbox.

    • I hope this will help ham friends get in contact in areas where there is no internet, no packet radio, and no ptc or tnc.
     
  • automatic receive / transmit and beacon functions

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  • there is a new experiental option to use a sound driver code without 'mmap()' (DMA access).

    • (mmap is good for real-time work, but made problems with some soundcards / drivers.)
     
  • 3 calibration tools, which also can be useful for other purposes:
    dcf77rx, also with the 'no-mmap'-option, can also to set the system time after the German DCF77 radio clock beacon.
    reffreq uses any reference tone 20 -22000 Hz.
    ratecal1 (by Pawel Jalocha) uses pulsed signals, calculates your real soundcard samplerate directly.

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  • a circuit to build a little longwave -> 4 MHz converter is included,

    • this can help to receive the dcf77 signal on 77,5 KHz in Europe.
     
  • there is a universal start script 'hf' and one configuration file /etc/hf.conf.

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  • interesting and clear documentation: one big HF-HOWTO in English and German.

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Attention
Still some soundcards might not like the program, depending on the sound driver.
Some ESS chips did not like it at all up to now, be aware of possible crashes!
I built in a security exit to prevent this, but be aware!
How to install
hf-<version>.tar.gz:                                                        hf-<version>.rpm:
tar -zxvf  hf-<version>.tar.gz                                              rpm -i hf-<version>.rpm
cd hf-<version>                                                             (maybe option -nodeps needed)
./configure
 make
(as root) make install
Documentation
F1, doc subdir of package, 
man hf, man hfkernel, man hfterm, man dxf77rx, man dcf77gen 
/usr/share/(doc/)(packages/)hf/HF-HOWTO.txt (English)  or  DE-HF-HOWTO.txt (German) 
Every news from you is an encouragement for us going on with developing the program.
If you like, help programming. In any case, have a lot of fun!
Günther Montag                                                                   dl4mge@darc.de