Setting up puppy platform to use w fldigi ham radio software i have set up fldigi on puppy and have activated alsa sound to interface. These are the latest woofce built puppies and their discussion thread. The wary edition of puppy linux is available for download via softpedia or directly from its official website as a dualarch live cd iso image, which has been engineered to run on both 32bit and 64bit computers. The two work well together, and lisa also already has the ftdi drivers as part of. Digipup a lightweight live linux distribution, a derivation of the puppy linux with a focus on amateur radio. Currently only puppy linux based distributions are supported. Tried the software as delivered with puppy linux, iso file downloaded from the website.
Ease of use grandpafriendly certified relatively small size 300 mb or less. Puppy linux is not a single linux distribution like debian. Fldigi, which does a great job on digital sound card modes like psk, rtty, mfsk, and others. It may be easier to get it running on another light weight distro like zenwalk or antix. Stretchdog is a variant of debiandog info and credits based on debian 9 stretch. All the official puppies since version 2 are hosted at ibiblio. First of all, we create a bootable pen drive for puppy linux which can be used to run the puppy in a live environment or to install it on physical hard disk or usb drive. Digipup puppy linux for amateur radio operator digipup is a customized puppy linux for ham radio operator. You will need to ensure your radios menu 031 is set to 38400bps in order to correctly use devttyusb0, you should have followed the tips link to page on allowing your user id to access the dialout group click the initialize button to check that the software can talk to. Download fldigi packages for alt linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos, slackware, ubuntu. Heres the story behind both the rising popularity of sound card digital modes in amateur radio and how fldigi lets you enjoy enjoy them on linux. When you click on any of the above links the window will refresh wait until the message download of fldigi will start in.
Although portable packages may be distribution independant. I am planning to try qsstv for analog and digital sstv, an app to program. It takes the audio from your radio, decodes the balloons signal, and then sends the telemetry its found over the internet to a server running habitat, which plots the payloads position on to the spacenear map version specific usage notes are available here, but you also may want to. Puppy linux discussion forum view topic how to install java. Lick runs on any windows version, from windows 95 to windows 10. The ibiblio puppylinux directory is mirrored by several sites worldwide. Dl fldigi is an adapted version of the excellent free fldigi soundcard decoding software. Digipup contains three of dave freeses w1hkj most popular free software offerings for amateur radio. One of its features is the ability to create specialized pups new versions of puppy linux geared toward a specific purpose. Flarq fast light automatic repeat request is a file transfer application that is based on the arq specification developed by paul schmidt, k9ps. Whats different here is that puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite fullfeatured. The current version of flrig for linux is available from w1hkj as source code and an application for puppy linux. Am awaiting the arrival of the usbcat cable to try it out with my ft897d.
Ibiblio also hosts the puppy specific packages pet used to build puppies as well as squashfs files sfs with kernels, kernel sources, large applications and application frameworks. This means youll need to create a bootable cd, dvd, or usb drive containing the iso file. It contains most of applications that ham radio user couldnt resist like fldigi, fl logbook and geoid. Puppy linux is an excellent operating system to run pskmail, both the client and the server. Test fldigi with your transceiver with psk500 and thor8 5. Built from scratch by using debootstrap, see also here and here. Digipup is one such example, with a focus on amateur radio. To burn an optical disc in windows 10, rightclick the downloaded iso file and select burn disc image. I do recommend you download and install the 64bit edition. If you have fldigi installed, open a terminal window and type fldigi if its puppy, all should work properly with no adjustments to permissions. All 100% first time, even with puppy linux installed on a usb stick. If youre not sure which one is right for you, cinnamon 64bit edition is the most popular. Puppy linux is a unique family of linux distributions meant for the homeuser computers.
Did install fldigi at the command line ok, but it does not show as an application like fldigi does. My older laptop runs puppy linux with fldigi but wont touch newer linux versions due to no pae like others have said, andys hamradio linux worked ok here as well some windows ham software will work through the emulator called wine. Check below for any special notes on your windows version type. I use hamlib, but rigcat is available, or you can manually control my old ic730. So far i have been able to get cqrlog running on debian, fedora, opensuse, mepis, antix, zenwalk, slackware, mint, arch linux, sidux, ubuntu and mandriva. Rig monitoring with flrig for linux hamradioandvision. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live cd distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the cd, it loads into ram. Macpup 525 is the latest and is based on puppy linux 5. This contains all the apps from lucid puppy with the addition of firefox 4. I was not able to find a package for flrig, which is a companion piece to fldigi. The fastest, most fullyfeatured multimedia creation operating system in the world. Ready to use all tools for common daily computing usage already included.
I use a rigblaster and a donners digital interface. I am trying to keep everything as linux native as possible i have fldigi loaded on my puppy linux 2. Puppy linux is a unique family of linux distributions meant for the homeuser. The precompiled binary is available with and without a dependency on pulseaudio. How to install puppy linux to usb using windows os h2s media. Flrig can cooperate with the fldigi digital modem program for linux figure 3. Check the ptt and audio connections to your transceiver 4. Below youll find links that lead directly to the download page of 25 popular linux distributions. Please follow these instructions to create your own puppy with the w1hkj ham software suite. It is as simple as installing and running lick, selecting a linux iso image, and clicking install. A repository is a place where software can be downloaded and install from the web. Extra apps like opera or gimp are available for easy download from the quickpet app on the ibar or the puppy package manager. As mentioned above, the puppy linux has multiple variants, so download the one you would like to use. Fldigi, which does a great job on digital sound card.
Unless you know that your system uses pulseaudio for its sound card service you should not download that version. If you want a scanning server, test if hamlib works properly with your transceiver 7. Tick to use rigcat and set your controls as in the screenshot below. Broken link not free report spyware please check the appropriate box above. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input. How to housbreak your dog or puppy quickly and easily. Typically each linux distribution has its own repository. Ive successfully used fldigi with an ic706mii, an ic730 and a ten tec pegasus. I installed fldigi on linux mint 12 lisa easily with the install in the package. To install puppy linux, youll first need to boot from iso image you just downloaded.
The download appears to have an updated version of fldigi. Im a linux fan and have operated fldigi on puppy linux 4. My older laptop runs puppy linux with fldigi but wont touch newer linux versions. A puppy linux derivative by fldigi for ham radio use, uses kernel 3. Freese also makes these programs available as pet files, which is the packaging scheme used by puppy linux, so if you already have a puppy live cd, you can simply download the pets and then remaster the iso using his instructions. Configure fldigi for use with the pskmail server 3. Puppy linux is also not a linux distribution with multiple flavours, like ubuntu with its variants of ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu, etc though it. One download will run on all the major raspberry boards from the pi zero to the pi 4. It is a full featured desktop operating system including all the programs you will likely need on a day to day basis such as a browser, word processor. I then downloaded each of the indicated files, saving them in the download directory. Fldigi is a fast moving project many added features with each update. Links to packages for the major linux distributions are at the bottom of w1hkjs download page. If so i have been taught to delete all old versions before installing a new one, or expect problems.
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