Ham Fax

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General information

HamFax is an application for sending and receiving facsimiles in amateur radio and for receiving public facsimile broadcasts like weather maps. Supported interfaces are sound cards and the SCS-PTCII from Special Communication Systems.

The goal is developing an application which is usable for both, facsimile on short wave and broadcasts from satellites. But due to the lack of equipment, testing of satellite reception is not possible.

HamFax is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL).

Further informations are available on the Sourceforge page of the project..

The application was presented

• at the Exposition Ham-Radio 2001 and
• issue 1/2002 of the amateur radio magazine CQDL.

The project has been begun as student project at the company SuSE, but work will continue during the author's spare time. Bug reports, suggestions and offers for help are always welcome. For contacting the author send a mail to cschmitt@users.sourceforge.net. Please use an appropriate subject line, empty subjects could be considered spam.

Features

• Receiving FM (frequency modulated) transmissions on shortwave.
• Transmitting shortwave facsimiles (not live tested yet, but decoding the transmission works).
• Receiving of satellite broadcast (This is untested and might very well not work yet. Does anybody have the equipment and the motivation to help out?)