Sunday FreeDV net - very interesting discussion

A terrific net this morning in south east Australia. Amazingly there has been mobile FreeDV activity during the week! Most people are now on 2.3.1 which resolved a Windows audio issue.

Stations heard included VK2BLQ, VK3APG, VK2AWN, VK3FAR, VK3FC, VK3GTP, VK3KEZ, VK3PTR, VK3YSA, VK5ABE, VK5JPL, VK5RA, VK2DWG, VK2KNC, VK5FD, VK3JCO, and me, VK3TPM.

Several stations said that they'd like an option in the FreeDV app to auto-start the Modem at launch. This is particularly helpful when operating on headless, or small screen Raspberry Pi. I've raised a feature request here but it needs some more backers. Please add your email if you support this.

FreeDV Neo - native macOS client for FreeDV RADE V1

Built for my own entertainment but might be of interest to other macOS hams. FreeDV Neo is enough of an implementation of FreeDV RADE V1 to be usable on air. More info here including a download link. 

This app is not officially supported and you should first use the official FreeDV app from the project.

Tech talk on ABC Radio - SpaceX IPO, emergency communications & PCs going ARM

This week on Nightlife Tech Talk with Philip Clark, we discussed the US$1.7 Trillion valuation of SpaceX (if their IPO goes as planned), NVIDIA's announcement that they're getting in to the personal computer CPU market with an ARM based chip that seems influenced by Apple Silicon, and if you go in to the Australian outback there's a good saftey reason to carry a recent cell phone from Google or Apple. Listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/nightlife-tech-talk-with-peter-marks/106751536