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How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 1 month ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.dev 8 points 1 month 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.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Chirp ran fine on Linux when I needed it to program a UV-5R a year or two back - was provided in a flatpak then but looks like they use a Python wheel file now.