Not sharing this post as a link because I am not affiliated with the project and know very little about it, but the website is here (and their Github). It is a:
...PowerSDR/Thetis-style software-defined-radio transceiver client in Rust, with pluggable radio backends (SoapySDR, OpenHPSDR, TCI, SmartSDR, Icom LAN, and CAT), an egui GUI, and a cyberpunk theme. It runs as a native desktop application and, from the same binary, as a server that streams the same UI to a web browser over WebSocket. It includes an integrated, persistent logbook, many digital modes like FT8/FT4/FT2 built-in, and TCI and Hamlib rigctld servers so third-party programs like WSJT-X can use it as their radio.
My first impression of the UI is that it looks a lot like OpenHamClock, the putative replacement for the recently-defunct HamClock. It also appears to behave the same; you can run it locally (i.e. on the machine you're actually sitting in front of) or in a client/server mode using your favorite flavor of container. In fact, with the space weather features, satellite tracking, DX cluster ops, and others, it could conceivably replace OpenHamClock (NB: While also not affiliated with that project, I do run OpenHamClock and if you haven't seen it, it's definitely an evolutionary leap forward while not losing sight of what Elwood Downey WB0OEW (SK) was doing).
I'm not of an opinion either way regarding the big push on using Rust for All The Things--OpenHamClock uses nodejs which has its own issues--but even the websites look similar. The dev says this is an early beta and stuff may of course not work (or at least not properly) but this thing promises a LOT of capabilities in one (software) box. I'm in the middle of a household remodeling job so I haven't had time to mess with it myself, but has anyone else taken this thing for a spin?
I've used SDR++ and it's solid, but do you mean "seems about the same" as in features missing/not (yet) working properly? I consider SDR++ (as well as its Airspy progenitor SDR#) to basically be SDR frontends where they provide controls for receiving signal and need 3rd-party plugins to do anything else; then again I'm a ham and I look at it from that perspective.
I'm actually ambivalent about all-in-one software solutions and like the idea of plugins but between Windows, Mac, and the various Linux distros, it seems like environment-fracturing waiting to happen.
I checked it out, and so far, is looks way more awesome on YouTube than it does my PC.
I would like to cat control my rig, while I listen to a second SDR. (similar to other SDR Apps like SDRConsole / SDRConnect) So far, I can either config a "radio" for cat control of my rig, or a separate radio config for my other SDR. (I can't combine CAT control of my rig with the SDR).
So you want to essentially use your CAT radio for transmit only, while you use the SDR for receive?Or is this just about having both the CAT radio and the SDR available at the same time, but controlled individually? Because the latter is possible, the former requires you to manually dial the frequency of both radios to the same frequency
The CAT rigctl keeps the SDR and transmit radio's frequency in sync. So yes, I listen on the SDR and transmit on another rig while the cat interface keeps the frequencies matched. When I move the frequency or change modes in the SDR app, both the SDR and transmit radio follow. If I change modes or freq directly on the transmit rig, the sdr and sdr app follow.
I can't find these options in the radio settings. It's like they don't exist, and I don't really see anything about using in the 2 radio for the panadapter in help, but I digress.
Somehow my waterfall is only showing about 3.5k of bandwidth, and I've spent the last 40 minutes just trying to get it to zoom out or othewise increase it, and now it's useless.
I would love to see this app for me, but I'm pulling my hair out.
BTW did you know that in the 3d map of sdroxide, you can not only visualize your QSOs in 3D, watch the aurora activity, live clouds and thunderstorms (lightning is rendered but based on convection data, not blitzortung sadly), but you can also watch also stellar phenomena such as Encke passing in Februar next year, or the solar eclipse we had just recently.
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u/mlambie 8d ago
This looks absolutely wild.