Documentation Amateur Radio Beat

Fedora provides a complete suite of amateur radio applications, including numerous sound card applications, support for logging, rig control, antenna and propagation modelling, circuit design and simulation, APRS, Echolink and more. These release notes only describe new and changed packages for Fedora 12. For a more complete list of applications see Applications_for_Amateur_Radio on the wiki.

Sound Card

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL
fldigi	3.10	3.11.6	http://www.w1hkj.com/fldigi-distro/

10 packages, 1 changed, 9 unchanged.

Software Defined Radio

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL
gnuradio	3.1.3	3.2.2	http://www.gnuradio.org

1 packages, 1 changed, 0 unchanged.

Packet

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL

9 packages, 0 changed, 9 unchanged.

Circuit Design

kicad

kicad has not been updated for Fedora in some time. Fedora 12 includes the latest version of kicad which incorporates a huge number of minor bug fixes and usability improvements. For a complete description of the many changes please refer to the upstream changelog at http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/.

xcircuit

xcircuit has been updated to version 3.6. The application now handles multiple schematic windows and has been expanded to allow handling of larger projects. Libraries are now arranged according to "Technology Prefixes". To learn more about these improvements please refer to the release notes at http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/.

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL
gerbv	2.2.0	2.3.0	http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/
kicad	2007.07.09	2009.07.07	http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/
ngspice	18	19	http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/
qucs	0.0.14	0.0.15	http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
xcircuit	3.4.30	3.6.161	http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit

17 packages, 5 changed, 12 unchanged.

Rig Control

hamlib

hamlib has added support for:

• NRD-525

• Kenwood TRC-80

• Winradio G305/G315

• Yaseau FT2000 and FTDX-9000

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL
hamlib	1.2.8	1.2.9	http://hamlib.sourceforge.net

2 packages, 1 changed, 1 unchanged.

Logging and Related

xlog

In addition to a number of bug fixes, xlog now includes a feature to ease handling of unknown countries. When "Tools -> Find unknown countries" is selected, xlog will show a list of contacts for which DXCC lookup fails. You can then correct this by using a "DXCC-" string in the awards column.

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL
xlog	2.0.1	2.0.3	http://pg4i.chronos.org.uk/linux/xlog.html

5 packages, 1 changed, 4 unchanged.

Antenna Modelling

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL

2 packages, 0 changed, 2 unchanged.

Internet and Related

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL
svxlink-server	0.10.1	0.11.1	http://svxlink.sourceforge.net
qtel	0.11.1	0.11.2	http://svxlink.sourceforge.net

4 packages, 2 changed, 2 unchanged.

Other

Changed Packages

Package	Fedora 11	Fedora 12	Upstream URL
linsmith	0.99.11	0.99.12	http://jcoppens.com/soft/linsmith/index.en.php

5 packages, 1 changed, 4 unchanged.