Re: zBitx installed softwares
I have a stand that i can put the radio on and there are many small folding keyboards.
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Robert Fairbairn
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#116402
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
Gerry,
That's fine, I was responding to this statement:
There is little difference (to me) between "lugging a laptop" and carrying a keyboard/mouse, a tablet, or a smartphone.
(I thought the
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Ken N2VIP
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
Mikel, I understand your concerns.
but in this age of piracy, people who have put blood sweat and tears into the development of advanced software have the right to keep it to themselves.? ? If they
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
Dear all, dear Gordon:
First of all, I stand corrected on bandwidth. My view was based on observed
waterfall widths for ROS and VARA (2.4 kHz). Thanks for the correction, and
for the information sent.
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Mikel EA5IYL
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#116399
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
I am very interested in what software is installed on the radio and what that software enables. ? I am just learning about some of the options in low power digital modes (yes my CW stinks but it is
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Robert Fairbairn
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#116398
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
Mikel, are you sure your claims are even correct?
If you have ever operated modes such as AX.25, MT63, you will recognize that VARA is far far more "bandwidth-efficient" measured by rate of speed per
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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#116397
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
Remember what Craig Fugate, famous administrator of FEMA and also a Ham radio operator in our local Alachua county group KK4INZ, once said about disasters:
“ I’ll take help from
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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#116396
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
I find it particularly unacceptable that a proprietary, undocumented mode
is used for emergencies.
Missatge de eb3am via groups.io <eb3am@...> del dia dv., 21
de mar? 2025 a les
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Mikel EA5IYL
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#116395
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
I'm all in for banning all of ROS/VARA, etc. from our airwaves. It's still
amazes me that these closed-source/proprietary, bandwidth-inefficient modes
created by EA5HVK (Jose Alberto Nieto Ros) are
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Mikel EA5IYL
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#116394
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Re: SBITx with Heil headset?
Hi Jens,
Brilliant idea, will try this over weekend.?
Thank you?
Dennis G6YBC?
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Dennis_G6YBC
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#116393
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
You know it sends VARA right?
Gordon kx4z.
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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#116392
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Re: SBITx with Heil headset?
perhaps my article may help you:
https://www.dk0tui.de/2023/07/adapter-fuer-icom-ic-705-und-heil-headsets-mit-dynamischer-mikrofonkapsel/
It's in German, please use a translator of your
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Jens / DH1AKY
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#116391
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
If the details of the mode are not publicly available, that actually is a
violation of amateur radio regulations, at least here in the US. Either a
protocol spec or an open source implementation
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Shirley Dulcey KE1L
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#116390
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
I think it’s a reasonable expectation, as long as bluetooth is working well. There are enough pocket-sized bluetooth keyboards. I got one like this:
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Shawn Rutledge K7IHZ / LB2JK
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#116389
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
When I get my zBit, I will be using an official Pi keyboard and mouse - won't need an on-screen one.
Gerry
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Gerald Sherman
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#116388
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
It's a shame that the ROS / VaraC software hasn't been ported to Linux.
Surely the fact that the licenses have a price is, in large part, the reason.
At one time, its use was limited/banned in the
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EB3AM Jordi
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#116387
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
I haven’t yet looked into how different JS8 is from FT8. I wonder if there is any hope of adding it to ft8_lib. I think that would be the likely way I’d try to add it as a built-in feature; or
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Shawn Rutledge K7IHZ / LB2JK
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#116386
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Re: zbitx schematics and source code
I did a side-by-side comparison of this zbitx repo and the farhandev branch of sbitx. They look suspiciously similar, with some newer changes brought in, but it looks like it’s still clearly meant
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Shawn Rutledge K7IHZ / LB2JK
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#116385
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
VarAC (unlike FT8, JS8Call, Olivia, etc.) is a privative, closed-source
mode (which in my opinion should not be allowed on air, precisely because
of that). Unless the author(s) decide to port it to
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Mikel EA5IYL
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#116384
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Re: zBitx installed softwares
As a reminder, the zBitx has a functional, but limited display and no provision for an on-board keyboard (beyond an impossibly small on-screen keyboard, I suspect), the same as the sBitx, but the
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Ken N2VIP
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#116383
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