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Ham Radio is a non-commercial hobby using analog and digital radios utilizing specific frequencies and transmission modes restricted on a national government basis following worldwide amateur radio recommendations. Computers, especially Linux computers, play a significant role in operations.

Ham Radio AKA amateur radio is a non-commercial hobby using analog and digital factory-built and home built radios on specific frequencies with specific and transmission modes and power limitations restricted on a national government basis following worldwide amateur radio recommendations. Computers, especially Linux computers, play a significant role in operations, not only in programming radios to comply with government restrictions, but also to encode and decode signals using dozens of protocols created by amateurs. Radio developments by amateurs often find their way into the commercial and government operations, and amateurs often support government disaster and wartime operations.

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How do you use chirp?

Chirp is an amateur radio program that will help program your radio from a computer. My radio is a Wouxun and the module is a KG-UV3D.The documentation says that is will work on this module, but there is not a setting for it so I got as close as I…
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How to install LXDE and keep default login

I would like to install LXDE on my router, but whenever I do it using sudo apt-get install lxde it replaces the default login screen with the LXDE login screen, I would like to install LXDE, BUT keep the command line as the default login. In my…
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No audio output from sound card to program

I am a ham radio op -- running a program called fldigi. Works fine under XP, which I hate to use. However, under Ubuntu 10.04, running ALSA and Pulse Audio, I cannot get sound from the sound card coming in from the radio to go to the program. It…
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I would like to add the following lines to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d

There is a program named "Freedv" which is a ham radio program that uses the sound card to digitally modulate the voice carrier. To run this program on Ubuntu 12.04, the literature states that one must add the following lines to the…
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activation/configuration of ttys0 - ttys3

I am an amateur radio operator and love digital radio communications. I need to get my com ports functional (ttys0, s1, s2 and s3). I have been searching for a way to activate/configure these ports. I have downloaded cute com and serial port…
Gordon Sage
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QSSTV death march

I'm attempting to run the Amateur (ham) radio program qsstv on Ubuntu 19.10, on a new Dell PC, Optiplex 5055 with an AMD PRO A10-9700 R7 CPU with 10 compute cores (4C+6G) and 8GB RAM. swapon NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/sda5 partition…
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chirp on ubuntu

I did install the chirp on my ubuntu 14.04 lts according to instructions: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install chirp-daily It worked. How do I run it?
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Com ports identification

I am a relative new user with Ubuntu 13.10 and I have always been puzzled in trying to identify Com ports. On Windows systems it is an easy task but I have not mastered it on Ubuntu. I have 3 USB to serial devices plugged into my computer and I need…
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Firefox keeps changing http://localnode:8080 to http://localnode.com8080/. How do I change this?

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04. On version 11 it was doing this, but now it has changed. I am a ham radio operator and I am trying to use the wrt54g Linksys router for digital communications.
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How to change permissions for a USB adapter?

I have an RS232 to USB adapter and I need to change permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0 to make a ham radio interface program work. So far I have tried sudo at the command line with no success. I tried sudo nautilus and was able to make the permission…
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Unable to use USB port to program radio in Chirp

The following in Terminal tends to lead me to believe that I would use ttyS4 to access a Baofeng radio in Chirp. However, when I try it, I get a "permission denied". In fact, no matter what I try, "permission denied" on all listed ports. Help. $…
Wayne Carpenter
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serial port in chirp

I’m unable to program my kenwood tm-g707 on Ubuntu with Chirp and I need help! I get this could not configure port (5 'input/output error') kg4rxs@kg4rxs-Latitude-E6420:~$ sudo chirpw [sudo] password for kg4rxs: (process:6302): Gtk-WARNING **:…
mike works
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Was my computer poorly designed with problems not only with Ubuntu?

Most recent point of confusion: Installed apps that seem to be invisible to the operating system. An example is one named Chirp. Ubuntu item at the top of the launcher can't find it. Apt will list it. Locate can find a directory by the name -…
Berkey Walker
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Can I find cocoa modem in the repositories?

I just have a basic question. I am trying to set up a digital ham radio station. I have a piece of equipment called a SignalLink, a radio and a computer. What I am trying to do is make it so that the sound card in my computer recognizes the…
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In dialout group for Chirp but USB port still not working

I've followed every available instruction and "fix" over countless hours for months. Still haven't got Chirp to work - ever. Cannot get USB access after following all instructions and fixes. Now getting "[Errno 1] operation not permitted". Have…
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