Digital Modes

This is the place for those with a particular interest in the digital modes of Amateur Radio.

eg:

APRS (useful comparison chart of APRS client software)

PSK31

Packet / Winmor / Winlink2000 (send/receive email using your HF or VHF radio to the or Winmor that ends up being delivered via the internet).

What do you need to get started over and above a normal station?

a) computer.

b) a way to interface your computer to the radio so that it can 'hear' the radio and 'talk' to the radio.

c) computer software.

Software Defined Radios - is a category of radio that uses digital signal processing techniques to decode/encode over the air signals.

Check out www.websdr.org for a list of receivers that you can use via the internet to listen to what they are able to hear. While not strictly a 'digital mode', this is using digital techniques.