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Here are some devices and programs I wrote to go further in my shortwave listening hobby. You can use them as long as you credit me for them and link this site but you are not allowed to sell or distribute them. Donations are welcome ...

Hardware

TE704C Teletron HF receiver Tone to RTTY adapter
A device I designed to convert the 1800Hz tone output from my TE-704 to a RS-232 level that can be understood by any RTTY decoder software.
16F84 PIC and PC controlled Audio Matrix
A double 5 inputs / 4 outputs audio matrix designed to dynamically interconnect my HF receivers to various signal processing devices.
16F84 PIC controlled TTY Terminal
A small and stand alone terminal device that allows to display RTTY traffic with speeds as low as 45.45 Baud.
16F84 PIC Parallel to Serial converter
A converter that can be used together with a decoder such as the Telereader CD-670 which only offers a parallel printer output to save decoded data to a PC.
A cheap PC DCF77 receiver
Using an old DCF77 driven clock.
16F76 or 16F876A PIC Serial to RACAL GPIB converter
A converter designed to drive a RA-1792 RACAL Receiver fitted with the GPIB A6A1 optional card from any serial line.
PIC 16F84 driven AD-9835 DDS board
A six frequencies DDS board designed to replace the RF-520 receiver Xtal bank
5Mhz frequency standard ADDED 2006/09/23
Adding a uninteruptible power supply to a dual 5Mhz 'pilote'
PIC16F648A MT12+GPS and Frequency standard display controller UPDATED 2008/10/19
Displaying Motorola MT12+ timing GPS and VE2ZAZ Frequency standard status messages on a small LCD.
PIC18F2550 ADS-B Decoder UPDATED 2010/06/26
Receive ADS-B signals with a simple receiver and decode frames with a PIC 18F2550.
A modern synthetizer for the Telerad LB740 VHF receiver NEW 2011/06/13
A four frequencies SI-570 based module designed to replace the original Telerad LB740-B XTal based oscillator module.
A replacement Audio card for the ACL SR-209 & SR-219 NEW 2011/06/20
An audio card using modern components designed to replace the ACL SR-209 AA-206 one.
A 10Mhz rubidium frequency standard NEW 2012/05/18
A LPFRS TEMEX rubidium standard that fits inside an old HP tape unit.
An azimuth/elevation controller UPDATED 2014/03/24
An azimuth/elevation controller made to drive an old CCTV Pan/Tilt system.
A Disecq 1.2 motor controller NEW 2014/03/24
An arduino controller to drive a Diseqc 1.2 motor used in satellite setup.
A standalone GX500D GPIB controller NEW 2015/04/05
A standalone control unit for the GX500D and ESM508k/517k/540k related VHF/UHF receiver cassettes.
A standalone WEB to RTTY converter UPDATED 2018/01/07
A Raspberry PI Zero standalone unit designed to print any Internet page or news to a good old Baudot RTTY unit.
A standalone TTY tape reader NEW 2019/06/01
An Arduino Nano168 standalone unit designed to read TTY paper tapes.
A 3 phases 400Hz power supply NEW 2022/10/07
A 400Hz power supply to be used with aeronautical instruments.

Software

RTTY software terminal UPDATED 2012/03/11
A RTTY terminal Windows software that can handle speeds as low as 45.45 Baud with a lot of interesting functionnality.
M8000 Universal Radio control software UPDATED 2007/09/29
A little Windows software I wrote in order to drive my M-8000 digital decoder from my PC and keep track of decoded data.
NRD535 HF receiver control software
A useful Windows software that can drive the NRD-535D HF receiver. I'm writing a new version that will allow to control both NRD-535 and RA-6790 receivers using a generic ActiveX driver.
SYNOP decoder ActiveX control UPDATED 2009/01/24
An ActiveX component that could be used inside your applications to decode the SYNOP data (FM12, FM 13 and FM14 code).
Generic receiver Active/X control UPDATED 2013/05/08
This is the driver part of my new receiver control software. It takes the form of an Active X written in 'C++' that can handle many different receivers at the same time. Currently, it implements the NRD535, RA6790, RA1792 (using the dedicated GPIB/RS232 converter), TRC243 and EK085 communication protocols.
NRD535, RA6790, RA1792, TRC243, TRC241, TRC294, T264, HF2050 and EK085 HF receivers control software UPDATED 2013/05/08
Here is a remote control software that uses the generic Active/X control component. It allows to handle up to 8 NRD-535, RA-6790, RA-1792 (using the dedicated GPIB/RS232 converter) or TRC-243,TRC-241,TRC-294A, T264, EK-085 receivers. Each of them can be either connected to the control PC using RS232 or through the Internet using a RS-232 over TCP/IP connexion.
IRC channel frequencies monitoring bot UPDATED 2007/03/29
This is an IRC bot that connects to an IRC channel and extracts frequencies in the messages. Each frequency can be send to a receiver for a real time activity listening.
HP59307A VHF switch software remote control NEW 2006/07/30
This little utility allows the remote control of up to three HP-59307A VHF HPIB switches.
HP8656 HF generator software remote control NEW 2006/07/30
This little utility allows the remote control of the HP-8656 HF generator.
Tektronix 1240/1241 logical analyser software editor UPDATED 2006/09/24
This little utility can be used to load/save configuration and to edit the channel grouping setting.
Wavecom decoders misceallenous utilities UPDATED 2011/05/23
Various utilities that can be used with a Wavecom W4xPC, W5xPC or W61 decoder in order to process received data.
Remote VoIP (IAX2) listening utility UPDATED 2010/07/20
Record and/or Listen to your receiver using an IAX phone. Then, extract each recorded and timestamped MP3 segments using the RxIAXrdr reader utility.
HP4192A LF Impedance analyzer software remote control UPDATED 2014/03/30
This little utility allows the remote control of the HP-4192A LF Impedance analyzer (NI or Prologix GPIB adapter).
IRC channel frequencies monitoring bot- Version 2 UPDATED 2011/04/10
This is an IRC bot that connects to any IRC channels and extracts frequencies in the messages. Each frequency can be send to the receiver linked to that channel for a real time activity listening.
IRD-2600 remote control software UPDATE 2015/09/16
A remote control utility for the Scopus IRD-2600 DVB-S unit.
R&S GX500D control unit remote software NEW 2014/03/30
A remote control utility for the GX500D and ESM508k/517k/540k related VHF/UHF receiver cassettes (NI or Prologix GPIB adapter).
Newtech LCU2042 remote control software UPDATE 2019/04/22
A remote control utility for the newtec LCU2042 Up/Down L-Band converter (.NET).
LiLyGO ESP32 LoRa Pager decoding software NEW 2022/06/28
A PocSAG decoder application for LiLyGO LoRa T3 device.

Miscellaneous

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