Ham Radio s/w and Ubuntu? {including Echolink}

[Peter N Spotts]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:15 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I am going to present Linux to my ham radio club at some point in the next 
> few months, and wanted to collect info on ham radio software, including 
> options for echolink.   Our repeater has an echolink connection, thus if I 
> present the software available for it, it might perk up people's interests 
> more.
> 
> It would also be very helpful if the echlink applications offered 
> proxy/firewall options so people at companies or at home that have 
> networks that implement firewalls, can proxy out and still get on 
> Echolink.
> 
> Also, anyone know of a live-on-CD/DVD Ubuntu distribution that may include 
> Echolink and/or other ham software?
> 
> Thanks for any leads.
> 
> Scott, WY1Z
> 

Also, check this out:

http://radio.linux.org.au/

Pete


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