Open Source Linux Ham Radio Software
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View 461 business solutionsBrowse free open source Ham Radio software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Ham Radio software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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WS - Digital Mode Suite
formerly known as WSJT-X Improved
WS is an innovative suite of programs for weak-signal digital communication in amateur radio by Uwe Risse DG2YCB et al., formerly known as WSJT-X Improved. WS grew out of WSJT-X by Joe Taylor K1JT, Steve Franke K9AN, Bill Somerville G4WJS, Uwe Risse DG2YCB and others (https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/). The WS Suite consists of three programs: WS (the main program), WS-MAP (wideband Q65 monitor) and EME65 (wideband JT65/Q65 for EME). The WS main program supports FT8, FT4, FT2, JT4, JT9, JT65, Q65, FST4, MSK144, WSPR, FST4W, and Echo. Notes: The WS Suite is licensed under GNU GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). I am not aware of any adverse effects. However, use it at your own risk! WS, including its logo and all program components, is protected by copyright. Any use or modification of the code or parts thereof (e.g., the adaptation of individual program functions), is permitted only if the origin of that function or code is clearly indicated. -
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WSJT
Weak signal ham radio communication
The WSJT project implements software for amateur radio communication using state-of-the-art digital techniques. Typical applications involve "DXing" at LF, MF, HF, and VHF+ frequencies, including meteor scatter and EME ("moonbounce"). Major emphasis is placed on weak-signal techniques. Summary Program Descriptions: WSJT-X supports the communication protocols FST4, FT4, FT8, JT4, JT9, JT65, Q65, MSK144, WSPR, FST4W, and Echo, each optimized for different sorts of radio-wave propagation. MAP65 and QMAP are designed for EME at VHF and higher frequencies. MAP65 provides a panoramic, polarization-matching receiver for the Q65 and JT65. modes. QMAP works together with WSJT-X to provide a panoramic receiver for Q65 modes covering a 90 kHz sub-band. Programs WSJT and WSPR are interesting primarily for historical reasons. They are superseded by WSJT-X. -
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fldigi
Ham Radio Digital Modem Application
Fldigi is a modem program for most of the digital modes used by radio amateurs today: CW, PSK, MFSK, RTTY, Hell, DominoEX, Olivia, and Throb are all supported. It can help calibrate a sound card to a time signal and do frequency measurement tests. NOTICE: You must proceed to the Files section to locate the correct fldigi, flrig etal download for your particular operating system. Do not blithely use the big green Download button! Use the "Files" menu item or the "Browse All Files" link. -
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Gpredict
Real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction
Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. Gpredict can track an unlimited number of satellites and display the data in tables and various graphical view. -
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MSHV
MSHV Amateur Radio Software
MSHV Amateur Radio Software. Developed by LZ2HV - Christo mail: lz2hv@abv.bg Supported working modes: MSK144 MSKMS JTMS FSK441 FSK315 ISCAT JT6M FT8/4 JT65 PI4 Q65 System Requirements: Microsoft Windows Xp, Windows 7,8,10,11 32 or 64 Bit, Linux Fedora (Red hat), Ubuntu (Debian) . Compiling: MinGw recommended GCC 7.3.0 thread model posix. QT5.6.3 library. IDE recommended QDevelop 0.29. All other libraries included inside the source. Acknowledgements to K1JT Joe Taylor and WSJT Development Group. The algorithms, source code, look-and-feel of WSJT-X and related programs, and protocol specifications for the modes FSK441, FT8, JT4, JT6M, JT9, JT65, JTMS, QRA64, ISCAT, MSK144, are Copyright © 2001-2017 by one or more of the following authors: Joseph Taylor, K1JT; Bill Somerville, G4WJS; Steven Franke, K9AN; Nico Palermo, IV3NWV; Greg Beam, KI7MT; Michael Black, W9MDB; Edson Pereira, PY2SDR; Philip Karn, KA9Q; and other members of the WSJT Development Group. -
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═══════════ ▲▲▲ ═════════════════════════════════════════════ Find the various versions on the "Files" tab (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtdx-improved/files/) jtdx_improved is an enhanced version of JTDX by Igor Chernikov et al. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtdx/). Both my and Igor's forks are based on the excellent WSJT-X software by Joe Taylor K1JT, Steve Franke K9AN, Bill Somerville G4WJS, myself and others (https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/). After the succes of my wsjt-x_improved project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt-x-improved/) I thought it was time to implement some of its enhancements now also to JTDX … Notes: jtdx_improved is experimental and is licensed under GNU GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). I am not aware of any adverse effects. However, use it at your own risk! Subscribe to the mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtdx-improved/lists/jtdx-improved-community.
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Ham Radio Control Libraries
Library to control radio transceivers and receivers
The Hamlib project's purpose is to develop flexible and portable shared libraries that offer a standardized API to control any radio oriented equipment through a computer interface. -
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HackRF
Low cost software radio platform
This repository contains hardware designs and software for HackRF, a low-cost, open source Software Defined Radio platform. 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. Designed to enable test and development of modern and next-generation radio technologies, HackRF One is an open-source hardware platform that can be used as a USB peripheral or programmed for stand-alone operation. HackRF One has an injection-molded plastic enclosure and ships with a micro USB cable. An antenna is not included. ANT500 is recommended as a starter antenna for HackRF One. HackRF One is test equipment for RF systems. It has not been tested for compliance with regulations governing the transmission of radio signals. You are responsible for using your HackRF One legally. -
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Client software for users of the Automatic Packet Reporting System amateur radio network.
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Nexus Ham Radio
All-mode ham radio operations center: 9 modes TX, APRS, awards
Nexus puts the whole ham station in one modern app: FT8/FT4 with WSJT-X-grade sequencing plus Q65, FST4, FST4W, MSK144, JT65 and WSPR all transmitting, RTTY, SSTV, APRS, SSB/FM phone, and CW with a neural-net decoder. The rig's own RF panadapter streams into the cockpit on native-CI-V Icom and FlexRadio. The waterfall pauses and rewinds. Route each band and mode to the radio that does it best, across up to three rigs. Awards (DXCC, WAS, WAZ, VUCC, IOTA) compute offline, and an eQSL or QRZ match never inflates an LoTW-grade award. Propagation uses a native ITU-R P.533 port and scores openings on receivers near you, not the global firehose. APRS draws real station symbols, decodes weather reports, connects to APRS-IS, and runs a receive-only iGate. Speaks WSJT-X's UDP protocol byte-for-byte, so GridTracker and JTAlert keep working. Its FT8/FT4 decode floor measures -21.3 dB against stock WSJT-X's -20.7 on identical audio. Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi. GPL-3.0, by KD9TAW. -
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Open source libraries and utilities to support using digital signatures for Amateur radio QSL information.
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KB1OIQ - Andy's Ham Radio Linux
Install ham radio software on Debian Live, RPi OS, or Ubuntu Linux
Latest Version: - Version v27: May 3rd, 2026 Version 27 ======== AHRL can be installed on top of Debian Live, Raspberry Pi OS, or any supported flavor of Ubuntu Linux. The supported Linux flavors are listed in the GETTING_STARTED document. An installation script does all of the work. Please download and read the bug workarounds file: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kb1oiq-andysham/files/v27/V27_Bug_Workarounds.txt Please download and READ the installation instructions: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kb1oiq-andysham/files/v27/GETTING_STARTED Watch a video of Andy (KB1OIQ) as he talks about AHRL during a ham radio convention in MA in the summer of 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuKZK1dKcU&t=2086s Several videos of Andy's complete AHRL presentation can be found on YouTube. Here is one made in March 2026: https://youtu.be/xv9YnREmeAA?si=yMTX8yJsQFyeJG0i -
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gpsfeed+
A software gps simulator
A software gps simulator, providing TCP/IP, UDP, http and serial port connectivity in NMEA 0183, XML or user defined output format. Usable for testing all kinds of GPS applications. Can playback pre-recorded GPS files with NMEA output. -
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WSJT-Z
WSJT-X fork by SQ9FVE
Starting May 2026, all releases will be published on GitHub: https://github.com/sq9fve/wsjt-z/releases WSJT-Z Forum: https://groups.io/g/WSJT-Z/topics -
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RTLSDR Scanner
A cross platform Python frequency scanning GUI for rtl-sdr
A cross platform Python frequency scanning GUI for USB TV dongles, using the OsmoSDR rtl-sdr library. In other words a cheap, simple Spectrum Analyser. More information can be found at: http://eartoearoak.com/software/rtlsdr-scanner An installer and standalone versions for Windows are located here: https://github.com/EarToEarOak/RTLSDR-Scanner/releases Sources are available on GitHub: https://github.com/EarToEarOak/RTLSDR-Scanner ** The up to date installer is no longer maintained on this site and can now be found at https://github.com/EarToEarOak/RTLSDR-Scanner/releases ** -
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Skywave Linux
Global Software Defined Radio at Your Fingertips
Updated 2026/01/24: Turn your PC into the ultimate shortwave radio. Skywave Linux is an X86, 64 bit live environment configured for accessing internet accessible software defined radio receivers. With this operating system, you may tune in popular stations or amateur radio, aeronautical, maritime, or other signals received at remote internet servers around the world. For a live map of the best KiwiSDR and WebSDR servers and a nice "click to tune" interface, Use the installed SDR-Map utility to find radio servers and listen from interesting places. Also, I have set up a self-updating SDR Map at https://rx.skywavelinux.com. An internet radio streamer application is also included for popular studio streams. Bring it up with keys [Super] + [S]. SDR software is configured to operate with popular plug-in devices, such as the RTL-SDR dongles, Airspy, and, HackRF radios. Skywave Linux is built on Debian Sid. It is primarily a live environment, but can be fully installed. -
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echoes
Echoes is a radio spectral analysis software for SDR devices
Echoes it's a radio spectral analysis software for SDR devices, designed for meteor scattering purposes. The older releases supported only RTL-SDR devices. They are very cheap SDR based on DVB-T TV tuner dongles based on Realtek's RTL2832U chipset. Starting from 0.50 Echoes embeds SoapySDR allowing the support of many other SDRs. Echoes doesn't demodulate neither decode any human-made signal. Its main goal is to analyze and record the total power of natural signals and generate screenshots and tabular data (CSV,) output in presence of particular peaks in a selected narrow range of frequencies. Since there is no demodulation, there is no provision for audio listening, except for a notify sound when an event has been recorded. Finally, Echoes can also operate getting an audio input, thus producing audio spectra. This way, Echoes can also be used with traditional receivers. -
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aprsd is a server daemon that provides Internet gateway and client access to amateur radio APRS packet data.
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Convert text to International Morse Code. Input is ASCII text. Output can be: - . -..- - on the console, raw 8bit PCM suitable for piping to /dev/audio, .wav files or even (mp3|ogg). Good for headlines on your MP3 player or code practice.
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Repeater-START
Showing The Amateur radio Repeaters Tool
Repeater-START (Showing The Amateur Repeaters Tool) is an app to view nearby ham radio repeaters. It runs on Windows, Android, Ubuntu Linux and Raspbian for Raspberry-pi, Librem Phone, Pinephone/Manjaro Linux etc. -
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Gqrx software defined radio receiver
Software defined radio for Linux and Mac
Gqrx is a software defined radio receiver powered by GNU Radio and the Qt GUI toolkit. It can process I/Q data from many types of input devices, including Funcube Dongle Pro/Pro+, rtl-sdr, HackRF, and Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) devices. -
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hamclock-next
Full re-write of hamclock in SDL2
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Qtmm AFSK1200 Decoder
AFSK1200 decoder
Qtmm is a simple AFSK1200 decoder that uses the computer's sound card for input. It can be used to decode packet radio, APRS and telemetry from amateur radio satellites. -
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