Last October, I purchased a used, iBook G4 Mac laptop and promptly started looking for logging programs. I found one that was kind of expensive (MacLoggerDX); one that was free, but didn’t want to work so well (RUMLog); and one that worked OK and cost somewhere in between the first two (Aether).
I ended up [...]

Here are a couple of items from mailing lists I am on.
Free Spectrogram ProgramKen, K3IU writes to the Elecraft mailing list:
For those interested, Spectrogram is again available as Freeware. Richard’s website, says:
Version 16 is being made available as freeware to replace the older freeware versions of the software relied upon by the majority of Spectrogram [...]

Since there’s such a dearth of amateur radio programs for the Mac, I’ve been thinking of doing some of my own. So, I started searching the web for some online resources. I’ve come up with the following:

CocoaDevCentral. Lots of articles on different aspects of Mac programming.
CS193: Mac OS Cocoa Programming. These are the slides from [...]

Here are two items from Jim K8ELR:

Global QSL. Global QSL claims to print and send, presumably via QSL bureaus, 100 color QSL cards for $9.90. The unique thing about this service is that it’s a print-on-demand kind of thing. You upload an ADIF file
with the QSOs that you want to confirm, and Global QSL takes [...]

On one of the many mailing lists I’m on, someone asked if there was a simple clock program out there that would display UTC. Well, it just so happens that Vic, K2VCO, one of the regular contributors to the mailing list had written one. You can find it at http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/. It displays both the date [...]

Dan, AC6LA, has a new domain name, http://www.ac6la.com/. On the site, there is a variety of software, including some programs that are free:

MultiNEC - Run Antenna Modeling Programs on AutoPilot - $39
EZPlots - Plot EZNEC Frequency Sweep Data - $19
XLZIZL - Picture the Rest of Your Antenna System - Free
MakeGIF - Make a GIF / [...]

Well, despite my last post, I’ve been breaking my own rules lately. I haven’t been on the air–except for some 2m FM contacts, and those almost don’t count–since Tuesday.
The reason I’ve been so negligent is that I purchased a new computer. Not only did I purchase a new computer, but it’s a Mac instead of [...]

On the Elecraft mailling list, Jess AE0CW (how’s that for a great call?) asked where he could find a trial version of some antenna modeling software. Someone replied that EZNEC offered a free demo package.
This morning, Dave G3YMC suggested that he look at MMANA, describing it as “free and excellent.” There’s even a mailing [...]

Ed Breneiser, Wa3WSJ, sells antennas for hams that like to take their ham radio to go. I haven’t used them, but they look well-made, and if Ed’s experience with them is any indication, they work well, too. He always seems to be operating while backpacking somewhere or operating portable from a covered bridge.
Now, he’s added [...]

I’ve always thought Linux and ham radio would be a good fit for one another, but the availability of ham radio related software that runs on Linux isn’t all that great. Perhaps it’s because Linux still isn’t that easy to install. Well, here you can get a CD-ROM with everything a ham should need to get started:

I haven’t tried it yet, but the web page says,

The CD contains a complete LINUX-Knoppix operating system and enough software to accomplish the usual tasks we all perform daily from our homes … web browsing, email, letter writing, etc. In addition, there is a huge library of programs for our Amateur Radio hobby.