Ham Radio Workbench Podcast

In this episode we meet JoeBrett, K5YVY, a popular ham radio YouTuber and author of software to map APRS traffic.  This is fascinating dive into APRS and how you can create some very compelling software in today's modern AI driven develoment environment.

In this episode we meet Brian, NR7Y, the author of firmware that allows you to operate CW with an inexpensive Quansheng HT.  Several other hams pioneered the idea by reverse engineering the Quansheng UV-5K and other radios then wrote firmware to add new features.  Brian picked up from there and has improved the idea with several more modifications.  
This mode has become all the rage in the POTA/SOTA community and is spreading like crazy thanks to the efforts of the Brass Knuckle Gang.

In this episode we meet Jeremy Fielder, KK7GWY, author or AetherSDR, a software environment for controlling FlexRadio equipment.  AetherSDR runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows and provides a wide range of compelling features.

In this episode, George KJ6VU, talks about his project to design a Radio Over IP device that can be used to link repeater systems over the internett.  All of the HRWB crew talk about their personal ham radio projects in more detail.

In this episode we meet up with Sebastian Delmont, KI2D, the author of the very popular logging application Ham2K, also known as PoLo for Portable Logger.  Sebastian has been working on the next generation of Ham2K that will support desktop OS platforms as well as phones and tablets.  The goal is to run on Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS and Android.  Sebastian gives us an update on the development process and the future direction.