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BeOS and Ham Radio
If you've come here from The Not-Very-Technical Linux Ham Radio Page, I hope you didn't think this page was going to be full of useful links to AMATEUR RADIO programs for the Be Operating System! To the best of my knowledge, there aren't any... but I hope some may start to appear in due course.
If you're a real BeOS die-hard and you really want to integrate the BeOS with your amateur radio station, you can at least drive a TNC with the BeOS 'Serial Connect' program and do some packet radio.
Update 13th March 2003 - I had a very welcome e-mail today:
Hi, i have seen your site and want to tell you that a beos packet radio software probably is my next project.
it's very good for learning the beos api...
i hope i can bring a first release in this summer - don't expect too much from the software
regards, Sven
You should be able to participate in BEACONet experiments by following the instructions for "Level 1" operation and using 'Serial Connect', provided you're prepared to undertake the rather laborious task of plotting stations on the map yourself. But it's an opportunity to do something useful with BeOS connected to your radio, after all :-)
If you know of anyone working to develop BeOS amateur radio programs I would REALLY like to hear about it. Mail me here.
On the BROADCAST RADIO front things look a whole lot more promising. With the release of the TuneTracker Radio Automation Software maybe BeOS finally has the 'Killer Application' it's been crying out for for so long. Tune Tracker enables you to do internet radio, low power fm broadcasting, telephone on-hold programming, corporate network broadcasting and much more and now features "Infinite Walkaway" - so you can set up your radio station and get on with your life while Tune Tracker looks after the rest of the work. The beauty of Tune Tracker from a BeOS perspective is that there is simply no equivalent software available for other operating systems and, given the way Tune Tracker makes full use of inbuilt features of the BeOS and its inherent stability and reliability, nor is there ever likely to be. Add to this the amazingly low price of Tune Tracker compared to alternative software/hardware solutions and it's easy to see why BeOS guru Scot Hacker described it as a 'Tractor Application' with the potential to pull people in to the BeOS by doing something they just can't do with another OS.
