Amateur Radio is an interest similar to Linux – those interested share information, develop new ideas and help each other to learn about this technology we have access too. Dave H G0CER
A high percentage of the Shropshire group are licenced to use amateur radio, so we feature distros which are specific to it or the use of applications on this page.
Ubuntu includes an Amateur Radio section in its repository – typically DX Clusters, AX25, QRSS Morse, rig control, Logging and many more. I would recommend this, mainly because there is a huge community of Ubuntu users, so help and discussion is never too far away.
All distros can have more or less these type of applications installed, depending on use and capability. Naturally we would recommend installing from source or CVS and keeping them up to date, but appreciate people can have library problems.
More here soon. Dave
We recently had a stall at the Telford Hamfest and found that a regular stream of visitors came to us and already knew about Linux – last year was the same, contrary to previous years (back to about 2001) where the majority knew nothing.