CLUSTER RADIO-AMATEUR-CHAT · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-06-25

Amateur radio text messaging tools

These products enable text-based messaging for amateur radio operators, covering HF, VHF, and UHF bands and including a WebSocket bridge agent. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only three dated entries before the index start. Traction is minimal, with the top activity signals (varac-bin, kst4contest, kel-agent) each showing zero stars.

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Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 4 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01kst4contest0★1 moliveopen sourceChat client that connects amateur radio operators to a coordination chat service for VHF and UHF contest operation.
  2. 02varac-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceDigital chat messenger that lets amateur radio operators exchange text messages over high-frequency radio links.
  3. 03kel-agent0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceAn agent program that bridges amateur radio software to WebSockets.
  4. 04JS8Call0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that lets amateur radio operators exchange keyboard-to-keyboard text messages over weak high-frequency signals using a specialized digital communication protocol.