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Free Amateur Radio Software for Windows
Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD) is a suite of free Windows programs providing computer control for commonly used transceivers and receivers. HRD also includes mapping, satellite tracking and the digital mode program Digital Master 780 (DM780).
HRD is designed for Windows 2000 or higher (XP, Vista, 7), also Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) is required. It may work with Windows 98 but this is not supported. The policy is to support Windows versions which are supported by Microsoft.
Other operating systems are not supported at this time although there is discussion on the forums. HRD runs well under Virtual Machines of which there are at least two available freely.
Installation
Installation is simple, just Download, Install and Start!
The suggested minimum computer specification Is:
- HRD: 500MHz CPU, 512MB RAM and 20MB of disk storage.
- DM780: 1GHz CPU, 1024MB RAM and 50MB storage (or more if using SSTV). DM780 uses more resources than HRD when decoding many signals simultaneously.
HRD is free for Radio Amateurs, Shortwave Listeners (SWLs) and charitable organisations. Use by commercial organisations and government institutions requires a licence from Simon Brown, HB9DRV.
About this wiki
This wiki is a new project that will ultimately develop into a full resource for the HRD suite. It is maintained by Ian Maude, G0VGS. If you feel you can contribute either content or translations, we would be delighted to hear from you and an account can be set up for you. Writing in a wiki is very simple and a page is available showing you the common options.
A list of wiki authors and contributors can be found here
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