There's no built WSPR for Fedora that I could find so I've been running it under Windows XP. Lots of people were spotting me (running under 5W from an ft-817) but I got no decodes of other stations at all. This morning I checked out the WSPR source and built it. All of a sudden I'm receiving lots of stations.
Ubuntu has been good to me but I found the switch to Unity a little premature and, quite frankly, Gnome 3 has all the good bits as far as I can tell and seems a lot more complete. It's weird that a desktop could ship without a simple way for a user to add a launcher to the dock (or whatever it's called).
Can't explain why I get no decodes on Windows. Perhaps the sound card is not right?
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Hello Peter, never heard of Fedora. But do now,have to test it. Trying Ubuntu and Linux Mint now. Do I understand you made a WSPR application for Fedora? It looks like the one in Win. Does it also work in Ubuntu, since I understand Fedora is also Linux based. 73, Bas
Hi Bas,
Fedora is a version of Red Hat linux. You can get it here.
I think there is a binary version of WSPR for Debian based distributions, including Ubuntu, from this page.
To install on Fedora I basically followed the instructions on the development page. Now, the trick is that the pre-requisite package names are a little different so you need to do a 'yum search' to find out what each one is called.
I'm sorry it's not trivial to make a binary distribution due to the required libraries.
You'll need to be at least a little familiar with building programs on linux using configure and make to go down this path, but let me know if I can help.
Peter
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