The long awaited Direwolf Software TNC release 1.6 has finally arrived.

New Features include:

• FX.25 - Forward error correction (FEC) added in a way that is completely compatible with an ordinary AX.25 frame. See new document AX25_plus_FEC_equals_FX25.pdf for details.

• Receive AIS location data from ships.

• Receive Emergency Alert System (EAS) Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME). A sample application is provided to convert these to APRS messages.

New Documentation:

• AX.25 + FEC = FX.25

• AIS Reception

• AX.25 Throughput: Why is 9600 bps Packet Radio only twice as fast as 1200?

• Ham Radio of Things (HRoT) - IoT over Ham Radio

• EAS SAME to APRS Message Converter

• Dire Wolf PowerPoint Slide Show

 

More Details:

Direwolf runs on Linux (including Raspberry Pi), Windows, and Mac OSX.

https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/master/README.md