If there are CVARC'ers that don't do M$ Window$ and want to use a
digital mode...
I just located a YouTube video that shows exactly how to install WSJT-X
v.1.80 for any Debian Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVMdU1ro7nM
The demo was for Mate, and it worked fine on Mint (both are Ubuntu
flavors). This prep would not help with "rpm" installations (Red Hat &
Fedora?).
I have it installed and it seems OK, but I don't have the cables etc
from a transceiver to PC wired so I may not get it on the air any time
soon... but it was an interesting video. It goes fast and the "cut and
paste" doesn't work (or at least not with my browser) but stopping it
and transcribing the short commands was pretty easy.
The software is eventually downloaded from
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html but the video is
useful to be sure that the PC is set up correctly and the dependencies
are met before the install. It starts by installing an old version with
"Synaptic" then uses GDebi to upgrade with the latest download version.
I had Synaptic and GDebi already installed but the video goes through
installing them just in case. Synaptic finds an old version (WSJTX v1.1)
and loads the dependencies, then GDebi follows an upgrade path with the
newest version after it is downloaded.
WSJT-X v1.8 lists 9 modes from FT8 to WSPR (alphabetically). I have
never operated any of them.
Ed, n1fmp