Ham Radio Deluxe

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Ham Radio Deluxe 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.

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.

Suggested minimum computer specifications

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.