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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

HTCommander, ICR, New Flex licensing program, StationPilot and SKM

 Yes I know, it has been too long without a post. Really preoccupied with summer activities not related to ham radio. Also, not much new until recently.


HTCommander:

This is a Windows based APP that allows me to connect to my VR-7500 2m 70cm radio from my computer rather than my tablet or phone. Here is the link to the repository:  HT Commander .



ICR:

ICR stands for: "Instant Character Recognition" . Basically you set your character speed really high. Like about 30+ c.p.m. and instead of trying to count dots and dashes, you try to recognize the sound of each character. You should start by watching these YouTube videos by CW Innovations. CW Innovations provide training for CW at there cwinnovations.net. I think I will look into it.

Flex Licensing:

Flex Radio has changed the licensing as explained here New License . The good thing is, bug fixes are no charge. It is only new features that require a new license fee. This OK with me. You should be able to get bugs fixed for ever.

StationPilot:

This is sort of like SmartSDR app. Here is a link to the StationPilot project. What I like about it is that it runs on Linux and you can run it concurrently with SmartSDR. Still playing with it. Hope to have more info in the future.



SKM:

Well, SKM is under way. Bands aren't as good this year. I am having trouble getting AF. I may not get the grand sweep this year. Below is the winning design for this year QSL card. I am not sure what key manufacture this is. Any guesses? BTW SKM make easy blog post helps with finding K3Y operators.



All for now 73!


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