About Us
Richard has been an Amateur radio operator since 1988. He is currently an Assistant Section Manager, Official Observer, Official Relay Station, Official Emergency Station, and VE Technical Specialist for the ARRL in the North Texas section. He is also an ARES AEC and RACES assistant radio officer for the city of Mesquite.
Russ was first licensed for Amateur Radio in 1993 as N1UYE. After a couple of call sign changes, he chose K5TUX to promote his love of amateur radio and free software. He is on air on Echolink (54711) and works a lot of 80m SSB and 15m CW. He works as a systems administrator for an ISP providing service using the Free Software philosophy and Linux operating system.
Bill is the Linux in the Ham Shack resident show notes taker, occasional co-host, keeper of all knowledge and all-around good guy. Together, they are the co-hosts of Linux in the Ham Shack. Linux in the Ham Shack is a podcast, a state of mind and a phenomenon. Originally begun to help amateur radio operators move from Microsoft and other closed-source operating systems and applications over to Linux and Free Software, the show has broadened its scope. Now consisting of a bi-weekly audio podcast, live streaming audio, community event sponsorship and general outreach, LHS helps to expose ham radio enthusiasts to FOSS and FOSS enthusiasts to ham radio. Join us every other Tuesday night for the live broadcast, subscribe with your favorite podcatcher, and visit with us at your local ham fest or FOSS convention. We are Linux, ham radio and Open Source for EVERYONE. And don’t forget to send your comments and other feedback. LHS definitely wants to hear from YOU.
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Great Show,, BTW I am N7NUQ… I am on a personal quest to rid my life of all MS products, so to me your the man…..
Rob.
Just thought you could help me. I am interested in D*Star on Linux ,Richard hook a fellow Ham up with your vast wealth of knowledge.
How to build fldigi on Ubuntu 9.10 X64
regards
k6***
1: get source tar balls
# cd /usr/local/src
# sudo bash
# [sudo] password for hamradio:
# root@hamworkstation:/usr/local/src#
Browse to www.w1hkj.com/Downloads.html
Copy link of source tar ball.
Paste link into root shell with the wget command.
# wget www.w1hkj.com/fldigi-distro/fldigi-3.11.5.tar.gz
# enter
Extract tar ball
# tar -zxf fldigi-3.11.5.tar.gz
Browse to hamlib.sourceforge.net/download.html
Copy link of source tar ball.
Paste link into root shell with the wget command.
# wget downloads.sourceforge.net/hamlib/hamlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
# enter
Extract tar ball
# tar -zxf hamlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
2: Get Software Dependencies
# apt-get install libxml2-dev tcl libfltk1.1-dev libxmlrpc-c3-dev pulseaudio libpulse-dev portaudio19-dev libsndfile1-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev
3: Building hamlib
# cd hamlib-1.2.8
# ./configure
# make
# make install
Test run hamlib rigctl with the settings for your radio.
# /usr/local/bin/rigctl
4: Build fldigi
# cd /usr/local/src/fldigi-3.11.5
# ./configure
# make
# make install
5: Run fldigi
Open new terminal shell hamradio@hamworkstation:~$
# /usr/local/bin/fldigi
Have fun and good luck
P.S.
Check your paths.
/usr/bin/fldigi will be a different version then /usr/local/bin/fldigi
How to build fldigi on Ubuntu 9.04 X64
you need to add libsamplerate0-dev to part 2:
Do any of the Ham Radio digital protocols support full TCP/IP?
Ca I load blacksparrowmedia.com over my UHF/VHF Radio?
Love the show!!!!
-ZZ
Great to find your podcast! I’m going to be catching up on the “back issue” podcasts.
Have been a GNU/Linux user for a number of years and an active ham…though inactive the last few years…hoping to “re-activate” this spring.
Noticed a new contest logging programme for GNU/Linux…have been watching and waiting for some good contest logging software…about the last reason I can think of for keeping a Windows box around.
Cheers & 73
I just got an iPhone and was excited to see there is a ustream app for it.
However only pre-approved streams can be found on it. They apparently want to make sure it meets certain conditions. It looks like lhs and rf streams
would qualify. You guys might want to look into making your streams available in the iPhone ustream client.
-Don
Here is the info:
Ustream works hard to provide the highest-quality shows on the iPhone. Therefore Ustream shows appearing in the viewing application must meet the following criteria:
-not broadcasting nudity of any kind
-not broadcasting vulgar content
-not broadcasting content that you do not own the copyright to
-not broadcasting any illegal activities
-adhering Ustream’s Terms of Service
-adhering Apple’s iPhone Terms and Conditions
-having a show logo
-having at least 1 recorded video
If you feel that your stream meets this criteria, please email
networks@ustream.tv with your username, a link to your stream, and a
description of your average broadcast.
Thanks so much for the information, Don. I have sent a request to USTREAM to get Linux in the HAM Shack added as one of the approved feeds so it can be downloaded via the iPhone app. We’ll let you know how it goes!
- Russ, K5TUX
Hey, It was great meeting you at Dayton. Keep up the good job. I probably never leave microsoft necause of work, but Im a big Ubuntu fan. I hope to have my shack converted to linux soon. I need somed good logging and contest logging. Also some good sat tracking programs.
Hi Russ,
I loaded Linux Mint 9 LDE on an IBM T21. I previously had SUSE loaded on it and both my PCMCIA cards for Wired and Wireless Lan were detected and worked ok. The Wired card is a Linksys and the Wireless is an off brand but both have worked in the same machine with the other versions of Linux. I don’t put the cards in at the same time, but I like to switch between them depending upon whether I’m at home or on the road. With Mint neither card shows up. Can you point me in the right direction. I have used Ubuntu, Suse, Red Hat & a couple of others and never had a problem with Auto Detection. I loaded the LDE version because the Standard version just kept hanging while trying to install. The LDE version was up and running within 15 minutes. I have checked the Linux Mint website, but nothing really seems to help. Also how do I sign on to this site?
Hi Guys,
For some reason the MP3 RSS feed is not working under gPodder 2.2. It will show up to episode 40 but nothing newer.
Thanks for the Great Show!
Hi, Rich.
I just tested both the MP3 feed and OGG feed using gPodder 2.2 under Ubuntu 10.04 and both feeds go right up to Episode #043 which is the latest release. Have you confirmed the RSS feed URL to make sure it’s correct? If it is, you may try deleting the feed and re-adding it. Sometimes that will help to clear out problems of this sort. Let me know if you are still having trouble; we don’t want you guys to miss anything over there!
Russ
I agree with KD0BJT. I had wondered what happened to you guys when gpodder stopped updating the mp3 feed.
I am currently running gpodder version 2.3 on Fedora 12 with the 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686 #1 SMP kernel. The feed shows up as lhspodcast.info/category/podcast-mp3/feed/ in gpodder. Firefox 3.6.8 will not load the feed either if I click on the link from the main page.
I hope that helps. LHS and Linux Outlaws are two of my favorite podcasts. Listening to you guys makes me feel like I am at a club meeting. Keep up the good work.
Danny
Just thought I’d check in. Just turned 60 on October 5 and still kick’n Listened to LHS 46 you guys might try normalizing. Richard’s audio was low so I turned up the volume and when Russ would come in I would get blasted! Other than having to constantly adjust the volume, I did enjoy the episode. Richard I need another RF Podcast fix (I am working on an audio contribution to send in soon). You two do a great job and I really enjoy both Podcasts. Later. Tim ki6bge
I am a new AR operator since May. I am a freelance writer and this month (DEC), I had an article published on Association and Condominium Antenna Restrictions. You can read it at:
flcaj.com/content.cfm?articleID=695
I would like feed back and help on additional articles.
RW, KJ4VGV “73″
Howdy,
I discovered your podcast while doing a search for qsstv updates. I’m a fairly new convert to linux, but love the freedom it gives me from proprietary software. I thank you guys for helping us newbies to linux begin to figure things out. Keep up the good work.
73,
Jim, KG9EQ
Today is Thursday, March 24. I just finished installing straight Debian, since I was having video freeze-ups and funky mouse cursor problems with Mint Debian. So, I have the following maker-easierer’s:
1 Extra repositories – In the System/Administration tab there is a package called “Software Sources”. Make sure that all the square checkboxes are checked, then tick “Close”.
2. Flash/Gnash – DON’T WORRY ABOUT GNASH!!!!! Once you have the non-free repositories ticked, open Synaptic Package Manager and install “flashplugin-nonfree”. Or, alternately, open a root terminal and type “apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree”. You now have Flash. All the butts will bob up and down properly on the porn pages.
3. Codecs – All the codecs are already installed in the standard install. Trust me. At least that’s what happens with a laptop install. If they’re not installed in a desktop install, then go back to Synaptic and tick the “good, bad, and ugly” plugins along with the base plugin. In other words, what you have to do to make Ubuntu work.
Sort of an aside, 99 percent of what makes Ubuntu so easy is tools that are already in Gnome. Until Gnome added its wpa tool, if you wanted to use wpa under Ubuntu you had to edit /etc/wpasupplicant files.That’s why I was using PCLinuxOS back in 2007. DrakeTools had a network setup wizard that would automate the wpa setup.
Hey Guys, It’s been awhile so I am “waving a hand” once again. I also wanted to let you know that I set up a new blog and have added your Podcast feeds. Thanek care be well and best 73… Gary ke2yk