When disaster strikes, and conventional communication systems fail, amateur ham radio operators step in to bridge the gap, providing a crucial link between those in affected areas and the outside world.
  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What I find unfortunate is that it seems a lot of amateur radio software, especially for like the DMR radios, are all windows only, and I am exclusively a Linux user.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t have a lot of experience but I was able to get Baofeng’s GT-18 programming software working and programming on wine. If I was already an experienced wine user it would’ve been easier. It’s the first time I dove in. Even the serial programming worked fine, I just had to see which /dev/ was linked to which COM. Still, native Linux (or CHIRP support) would be better.

    • Krzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t remember how I did it, but I could swear that I got chirp to run on Mint