Saturday, November 29, 2025

Article about FreeDV in "Amateur Radio" Magazine

This month I have an article in the WIA's Amateur Radio magazine


It's a venerable publication where many of my ham radio heros have published including Drew VK3UX so it's a great pleasure to be there. The process was very smooth, I wrote to editor Roger Harrison pitching the idea. He replied in the affirmative immediatly. Roger sent me constructive feedback - a rare thing these days. (He was careful to add "don't take this as criticism").

The article talks about the amazing new FreeDV mode which uses AI for the first time in a widely distributed digital voice application - a feather in the cap for Amateur Radio - due largely to the contribution of David Rowe VK5DGR. My article, spanning almost 7 pages, does double duty of being a fairly detailed technical explanation and a getting started guide.

AR magazine is sent to members of the Wireless Institute of Australia and is also available in newsagents.

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