November sweepstakes logging program by n3fjp this november sweepstakes logging program was written for the enjoyment of all amateur radio operators. In radio engineering, an antenna is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. Antenna and radio control for the kansas city tracker, as a 32bit dll for use with 32bit applications under windows 95. A comprehensive list of ham radio software together with downloads. View antenna display, showing the wires making up the model of the fiveelement beam, with currents and 2d slice superimposed to show orientation. A special version of k6stis ao antenna optimizer software that calculates electric and magnetic near fields. Supplemental content for the amazon kindle editions of the arrl antenna book. I decided to investigate antenna design software because i was tired of the traditional cutntry method.
Antenna, ve3sqb ham radio antenna design software programs. Exe requires a 386 or better, math coprocessor, vga, and dos 3. Last week, an online amateur radio retailer contacted me about writing some blog posts for his website. Ham radio digital modes software list and descriptions.
Read the 21st edition arrl antenna book instructions for softwaredata. Ka9q nos was only the second known implementation of the internet protocols for lowend computers. Lets see some antenna calculator and antenna design software that will help you design faster. Some software is available from amsat, other software is available from the vendor site. Msdos ham radio programs category is a curation of 25 web resources on, na contest, morse quiz, g4fgq antenna programs. At the higher hf frequencies, antenna sizes drop to 816 feet but are still larger than. Yagi optimizer is an old dos program made more than 20 years ago bya k6sti made to analyze and design antennas its very suitable to vhf antenna modelling and even if it is very old it is still very popular. To be used with either nec4 or yagi optimizer modeling programs. Parabolic antenna design, a utility for designing parabolic dish antennas for amateur radio transmission, written in basic for the ibm pc running ms dos. In order to provide a dynamic response, reconfigurable antennas integrate an inner mechanism such as rf switches, varactors, mechanical actuators or tunable materials that enable the intentional redistribution of the rf. Msdos software is organized into the following categories. It doesnt really matter very much if the antennaradio impedance mismatch causes 99% of the signal received by the antenna to be reflected back into the antenna rather than being transferred to the radio your received. Yag files can be converted using the ms dos based scale. Yagistress the ultimate mechanical design software for antenna designers.
Msdos antenna maker it allows to quickly calculate dimensions for quads. Ham radio, k5kjs antenna setup, photo and qsl, plus swl, radio scanning, contesting, solar and propogation, callsign lookup. Jpole antenna is pretty easy to build and usually designed by amateur radio operators through this software, you can easily find out four important parameters to build this antenna namely, radiator length, driven stud length, gap space, and feedpoint. Radio india software collection large collection of antenna software. It is specifically intended for processing audio signals from short wave, amateur ham radios, or any other radio to clean up or improve the listening quality of radio signals. Antenna maker antenna design program for quads, yagis, inverted vees, jpoles, trap dipoles and more. Antenna design programswith surface mount technology and microcircuitry, most hams no longer build their own equipment.
Antenna and radio control for the kansas city tracker, as a. Nec2 based antenna analysis software for the amateur and professional. Kodi archive and support file vintage software community software apk ms dos cdrom software cdrom software library. Free, secure and fast windows ham radio software downloads from the largest open source applications and software directory. Magnetic loop designer magnetic loop antenna design software by dk1nb. Hamradioindia website with radio theory, regulations and homebrewing projects by vu2fd. It is used to design jpole antennas for the desired frequency. Jpole is a free and portable antenna design software for windows.
Kodi archive and support file community software vintage software apk ms dos cdrom software cdrom software library. At high frequencies, ham radio antennas can be fairly large. The site has been produced by reg edwards, uk amateur radio station g4fgq, for the benefit of the many radio amateurs worldwide who make friends and obtain satifaction not only from operating a radio station but also from building and testing it. Rjpro3 does just about everything you can imagine to help you plan and execute your jupiter observations. Microstripes is the most powerful electromagnetic simulation software for microwave, antenna design and installed antenna performance. This link is listed in our web site directory since saturday nov 21 1998, and till today antenna maker has been followed for a total of 79488 times. Basics of high frequency vertical and beam antennas for. Ham radio horizons magazine was a vhf and newcomer emphasis ham radio magazine from the late 1970s. What are the dos and donts when it comes to retractable antennae for hts.
Hams use mrp40 to send and read qrq highspeed cw, to help. These are dosexecutable selfcontained programs each occupying a single binary file. The main category is ms dos amateur radio programs that is about ms dos ham radio programs. Net msdos collection, simtelnetmsdoshamradio lanet. Kd4udys voicekeyer voice keying software with many formats for both general and contest use. Voice keyer by mike sm3wmv is a universal free software. Product oem new sony fm antenna originally shipped with cmthpx9, cmthpx9. It allows to quickly calculate dimensions for quads antennas, yagi antenna. This freeware software performs dsp digital signal processing on audio signals received from an input line on your computers sound card.
Helix antenna design helix antennas with this dos program by oh0nc. The decoded text is displayed on the computers monitor. A freeware dos program by john agrelius released in early 90s but still very actual. Later, it moved to the ibm pc with the 8088 and 80286 cpus running ms dos. Figure 2 antenna vhf and uhf handassembled for receiving the satellite signals. Mm antenna analyser software by makoto mori je3hht ver 0. Compare the best free open source ham radio software at sourceforge.
Note that because windows is not required, this is a great program to leave running on that dusty old at computer to keep a constant picture of what is in your antenna beam during drift scans. In either case we have done our best to make sure the following links point to the most recent version. A selection of ham radio software by john agrelius k7hg. For the amateur radio astronomer, here is a planetarium chart of the 4c catalog of radio sources. Software is an integral part of the amateur satellite experience, and provides services from predicting satellite pass, steering antennas and tuning radios.
Rxcluster italian ham radio page hf digital modes terminal software por dos, and soundcard xmlog software packetlog dowload. Also includes a link to help you identify the sounds of ham radio digital communications signals. The list and descriptions have been compliled from various sources and descriptions on the internet and the ham radio world and should be as up to date as possible. Oem new sony fm antenna originally shipped with cmthpx9, cmthpx9. Ms dos software is organized into the following categories. Designed for the adobe air platform, antenna is a program which enables you to listen to online radio stations from all over the world. But, now in my sixties, i feel i need to make more efficient and effective use of my time. In transmission, a radio transmitter supplies an electric current to the antennas terminals, and the antenna radiates the energy from the current as electromagnetic waves radio waves. Improving a software defined radio with a few bits of wire. Allows to point an antenna towards an azimuth, a locator, an international prefix or any other geographical position on earth predefined by its latitude and its longitude. It allows to quickly calculate dimensions for quads antennas, yagi antenna, inverted vees antennas as well as jpoles and traps to extend dipoles band coverage. Its very suitable to vhf antenna modelling and even if it is very old it is still. The puff microwave circuit analysis software, wellknown under msdos. Product fm radio antenna, indoor fm dipole antenna radio fm receiver aerial with tv female connector for yamaha jvc boses radio stereo.
Contest logging software, whether free or commercial, is available for dos, linux, and windows platforms. This is a dos program that will design a 2 element beam for a given frequency. That was fine during my first quarter of century as a ham radio operator and antenna enthusiast. Today i sample five, plus the rubber ducky and try to give you a good recommendation. For transmitting cw, the program encodes keystrokes from the computers keyboard.
Hackrf one from great scott gadgets is a software defined radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 1 mhz to 6 ghz. Unless otherwise noted, these are distributed as source code which can be freely distributed under the conditions of the gnu general public license. Hf dipole antenna this antenna software will help you design a simple wire dipole antennas for 1 30 mhz. Free, secure and fast ham radio software downloads from the largest open source applications and software directory. Rtlsdr blog v3 r820t2 rtl2832u 1ppm tcxo hf bias tee sma software defined radio with ancable fm antenna for stereo receiver indoor, fm radio antenna 75 ohm unbal f type male fm radio antenna, ancable indoor fm telescopic antenna 75 ohm f type male plug connector fancasee indoor fm antenna 75 ohm f type male plug jack connector adapter. Antenna design program for quads, yagis, inverted vees, jpoles, trap dipoles and more. There are so many antennas to chose from out there, how do you know which ones are good. However, much construction consists of copying or adapting the work of others. Logperiodic calculator excel sheet to design logperiodic dipoles. Contest logging software refers to specialized computer software programs designed for use by competitors in amateur radio.
Choosing an hf vertical for many amateur radio operators, a vertical antenna may be the only option they have to put. This page contains a description of many of the popular hf digital modes software. Satellite telemetry and image reception with software defined. Eeekit am fm loop antenna 2 pin bare wire connector am antenna cable wire for table top home stereo receiver radio receiver indoor. Ham radio software archives iw5edi simone hamradio. They were not written for the windows environment, but may be run as a windows 9598 dos application. Yagistress professional yagi antenna mechanical design software. Mrp40 is a powerful and highlyeffective ham radio software program that decodes received cw audio that has been fed to a computers sound card. Pcale ale is the defacto world standard for initiating and sustaining communications using h f radio. One of the topics he suggested was choosing an hf vertical. Yagi optimizer is an old dos program made more than 20 years ago bya. Software defined radio sdr uses a processor, a special receiver and software that play the main parts of the receiver. This page lists some pieces of amateur radio related software that ive written for linux and other unixlike systems.
If you really want to observe jupiters radio noise storms, this is a must have program. Includes source code for a sample application demonstrating its use. Ms dos ham radio programs category is a curation of 25 web resources on, na contest, morse quiz, g4fgq antenna programs. Nowadays, in the 64bit era, with the advent of windows 7 and higher, running a old msdos program is very hard, but fortunately someone thought to us. Gps active antenna 3m10ft rg174 cable kingele waterproof gps antenna1575. Most of the 21 st edition software will run on 64 bit systems, though there is some legacy dos basic software that has not been rewritten for 64 bit systems on the companion disk. Base fed vertical antennas, coilloaded at any height, with coil design. About antenna maker the resource is currently listed in in a single category. This page lists some pieces of amateur radio related software that ive written for. A reconfigurable antenna is an antenna capable of modifying its frequency and radiation properties dynamically, in a controlled and reversible manner. One area that is still open to amateurs is in antenna building.
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