Radio, Permathe, Mac OS
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- 1Installing GNU Radio on MacOS X / macOS
- 1.5From Source
- 1.8Typical Errors and Warnings
GNU Radio has been compiled and installed on OSX 10.4 ('Tiger') through 10.15 ('Catalina') running any compatible version of Xcode on all recent and many older Macs -- whether Intel or PowerPC/PPC. There is very little support for getting the background libraries and applications installed on OSX 10.5 or earlier, nor 32-bit Intel or any PPC, though all of these should be possible. Primary support is for 64-bit Intel-based Macs running OSX 10.6 or newer.
Prerequisite: X11.app, recommended via XQuartz[edit]
Running almost any GNU Radio graphical interface (GUI) will require downloading and installing X11/XQuartz first. Through OSX 10.8, Apple provided a means to install X11.app, but XQuartz has always been more up to date and hence is recommended for use. Staring in OSX 10.9, Apple no longer provided a full working version of X11.app. Hence, just use XQuartz from the get-go. Note that unless you experiment with using the Quartz interface to various graphical toolkits (e.g., GTK), you must use X11.app as the terminal interface for GNU Radio GUI applications including GRC, the GNU Radio Companion.
A note about DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and other DYLD environment variables[edit]
- It allows you to connect your Mac to packet radio TNCs, amateur radio equipment (meters, controllers, etc), as well as raspberry pi, routers, switches, firewalls and IoT devices. Serial Tools Serial Tools is a set of serial port tools for Mac OS X. It includes a Terminal Emulator, a Protocol Analyzer and a serial port monitor to watch for.
- DogparkSDR is the first Native Mac client for the Flex Radio Systems Signature series SDR Radios. DogparkSDR is a native Mac application window into your FlexRadio 6000 radio. It takes care of setting and displaying radio parameters, displaying the Panadapter and Waterfall as well as routing the radio audio in and out of the Mac.
- Radio Javan is excited to announce our brand-new desktop application for those wanting to use RJ on their home computer or laptop. The new app works on Mac and Windows operating systems and can be installed from RJ's App page. You can access Radio Javan's entire library of music, videos, podcasts, and playlists with the app, while easily being.
On OSX, the library search path is set primarily by the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
(and the few other DYLD_*
variables). Because of the way the OSX dynamic library loader works, this variable works differently than the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
on Linux. Its primary purpose is in finding libraries in a local path, such as when testing software before installing it (we use it in make test
in GR), or inside an application. We strongly recommend against setting this variable globally as is typically done with Linux and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
. Setting any DYLD_*
environment variable for general use is highly discouraged, because doing so, in our experience, leads to problems down the road that are very difficult to diagnose. OSX provides robust means for correcting DYLD-based issues even after dependencies are installed.
Via MacPorts (recommended)[edit]
If you do not already have MacPorts installed, you will need to install it first. Make sure to follow the MacPorts shell environment changes needed such that MacPorts installed executables are found before all others. These are the only changes to the shell environment needed to execute any MacPorts-installed executable!
Once MacPorts is installed, GNU Radio and all of its dependencies can be installed by executing
This method of installing GNU Radio is actively kept up to date by Michael Dickens, and hence is the recommended way to install GNU Radio on Mac OS X.
The latest developments in GNU Radio can be installed via
Please note that the gnuradio-devel
port, while tested for basic compilation and functionality, is not a formal release and hence should be considered beta software which might contain bugs or major issues.
Other Package Managers[edit]
Fink and HomeBrew might provide a simple way to install GNU Radio; they are untested (as of early 2020). Conda through conda-forge is another alternative for installing pre-built binaries; see the conda install guide.
From Source[edit]
Background Dependencies[edit]
There are a number of background libraries and applications that must be installed from source or binary in order to compile or execute GNU Radio. These can be obtained by using MacPorts, Fink, HomeBrew, and/or from source / scratch. MacPorts tends to be more up-to-date with respect to new releases, which can be both a blessing and a curse since sometimes new released are untested and result in build or runtime errors. MacPorts, HomeBrew, and Fink offer thousands of ready-to-install libraries and applications, and hence they are highly recommended to use instead of installing from source / scratch.
NOTE: We highly recommended that you install all dependencies via the same package manager! When issues arise, they are much easier to track down, and your updating to newer versions is also much easier.
Many GNU Radio developers first install GNU Radio using MacPorts in order to get all of the necessary background dependencies installed, then remove just GNU Radio via
Compiling GNU Radio using Kate Temkins build script[edit]
Kate Temkin's GitHub repository gnuradio-for-mac-without-macports provides a build script that automate the entire process of building and installing GNUradio, it's dependencies, and a number of SDR hardware backends.
Compiling GNU Radio from Source[edit]
Installing GNU Radio from source follows the standard build guide, with changes to the cmake
command such that it always finds the correct version of Python, uses the desired compiler, and finds Sphinx to build documentation.
For example, using Xcode 5 or later's Apple GCC (llvm flavor), MacPorts installed into /opt/local
(the default), and for Python 2.7 (as installed by MacPorts), issue the following commands from within the GNU Radio source directory:
If make
succeeds, then you can test the build for errors via
$ make test
Radio Permeate Mac Os Catalina
To install the build, issue
$ sudo make install
Selecting another compiler is as simple as changing the CC and CXX pre-arguments to the cmake
command. Note that all of the -DPYTHON*
defines must point to the same install of Python, otherwise runtime errors are likely to occur. GR_PYTHON_DIR
sets the location into which GNU Radio's Python and SWIG files are to be installed.
By default, the location where cmake built projects will be installed is /usr/local
. To change this location, add -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/new/location
to the cmake command line, substituting in the actual desired path for /path/to/new/location
. For example, to install into /opt/local
, use -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/local
. Although we do not generally recommend installing into the same location as some other package manager does, this technique can be useful for debugging purposes; just remember to sudo make uninstall
before installing via the owning package manager.
A note about GR_PYTHON_DIR CMake setting and the PYTHONPATH environment variable[edit]
In the above cmake
command, we use the flag GR_PYTHON_DIR
to tell GNU Radio where to install its Python scripts and related SWIG libraries. The path noted in that command will work for the MacPorts installed python2.7
command. All of the rest of the installed files will be under the /usr/local
prefix -- the default CMake setting for when -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
is not specified.
If you either do not set the GR_PYTHON_DIR
flag, or use some other location, you might need to tell Python where to find the installed files. This is done by setting the environment variable PYTHONPATH
to include this path. For example, if no GR_PYTHON_DIR
or CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
flag is specified on the cmake
command, then the default install directory will be /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
, and you'll want to set the PYTHONPATH
such as the folllwing
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
This setting might be in the file ~/.profile
, ~/.bashrc
, or ~/.bash_profile
.
When using a package manager such as MacPorts, for most users it is recommended to use the version of GNU Radio provided by the package manager, which will not require changing the PYTHONPATH
since that package manager will automatically install the GNU Radio Python files where its Python will find them.
Upgrading to a new version of OSX on the same computer[edit]
When you upgrade OSX, you'll generally need to reinstall GNU Radio (and, all of its dependencies). If you are using MacPorts, you can follow their migration guide to do the reinstallation. You can always just remove all of the old installed files and/or reinstall over them.
Typical Errors and Warnings[edit]
Library not found[edit]
If you are compiling an out of tree module from source, some of them do not set the INSTALL_NAME by default. Without a correct set INSTALL_NAME, the library's self-id will be incorrect and the SWIG library will fail to be able to find the module's primary library. The actual runtime error will look like
Running otool -L
on the libraries returns just the dependent library name without path, e.g.,
This issue has been fixed within GNU Radio and is in modtool
, and has been propagated to many GR projects. The simple solution is to paste the following chunk of code into the module's top-level CMakeLists.txt file (just after GR_LIBRARY_DIR
is defined):
Another solution is to change the installed main and SWIG libraries to have the correct settings. In the case above for gr-air-modes, one could do the following to fix the issue:
Warnings: GTK[edit]
When executing a GNU Radio GUI, including gnuradio-companion, GTK will produce the following warnings on OSX 10.8; they can safely be ignored:
Error: Unusable DISPLAY[edit]
When executing a GNU Radio GUI, including gnuradio-companion, from a terminal window (e.g., Terminal.app, iTerm2.app, X11.app) when not the primary user or when the DISPLAY environment variable is not correctly set, one typically sees the following, regardless of OSX version:
followed by a host of related failed assertions and errors.
If you are using Terminal.app, you'll need to switch to another terminal application such as XQuartz/X11.app or iTerm2.app .
If you are already using an application that correctly sets the DISPLAY
environment variable, then you'll want to make sure you're logged in as the primary user (e.g., not as su
to another user). If all else fails, try quitting and restarting the application. Try rebooting your computer. When all else fails, contact Michael.
Fatal error: 'unistd.h' file not found[edit]
If your install fails and you notice a line in the reported log file that says something like Fatal error: 'unistd.h' file not found
, it's likely due to the path to the active developer tools not correctly setup. To fix, simply execute the following command:
xcode-select --install
A confirmation dialog box will pop-up and the tools will be installed. From here, re-kickstart the gnuradio installation and you should be good to go.
- Jack Audio
Take the audio output of one piece of software and send it to another. JackAudio is a virtual audio software cable that run on Windows Linux and MacOS and if Free to download and to use. - Grig Radio Control
Grig is a freeware simple Ham Radio control (CAT) program based on the Ham Radio Control Libraries (Hamlib). It is intended to be highly generic presenting the user to the same graphical user interface regardless of which radio is being controlled.Grig supports the most commonly used CAT commands that are implemented by Hamlib, and integrates well with other ham radio programs like Xlog and gMFSK.Grig has been developed on Linux, but has been ported on Mac and Windows OS. - Radio Explorer
Graphic viewer for shortwave broadcasting and programming schedules. Supports viewing schedules in an expanding table and on a 24-hour Gantt chart using the local time and the UTC time display modes. Runs on multiple platforms. - XASTIR
Xastir is program for receiving and plotting APRS position packets. Development is a collaborative effort of programmers and amateur radio enthusiasts from around the world. Xastir supports many map formats and is highly customizable.Xastir runs on Windows/MacOSX/Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/Lindows. It supports 125 map formats, several types of TNC's and weather stations, Festival speech synthesizer, AX.25 networking (Soundmodem/Baycom/SCC!) and seven languages!. - MultiMode
Digital modes decoding software for the macintosh. Decodes CW, RTTY, WEFAX, SATFAX, ACARS, DTMF, SSTV - Fldigi
Fldigi Freeware Digital multi mode program for Linux, Free-BSD, MacOS X and MS Windows . Support CW and several digital modes like PSK31, MFSK, RTTY, Olivia, WeFax, Hell and others and is a fully multi platform application - jLog
jLog is a modern Freeware Ham Log program that can run on all major platforms, e.g. Mac OS X, Mac OS, Linux/Unix, Windows, etc. It offers a nice, clean interface and allows efficient entry of QSOs.Import or Export of data using the standardized ADIF 2 format is possible to easily exchange data with any other decent Log program.Built-in CW Keyer, CAT control for many popular, rigs, DX Cluster tracking, call lookups - Satscape
Satscape is a freeware program for the PC Macintosh and Linux. It produces real-time displays of where any Satellite is, and predicts passes for your locale. There are about 8000+ satellites in orbit, a lot of these are just junk and debris such as discarded rocket bodies, but quite a few are working Satellites. - CHIRP
CHIRP is a cross-platform, cross-radio programming tool. It works on Windows and Linux and MacOSX. It can program many popular radios and exchange data between them includin Icom Kenwood Yaesu Alinco Wouxun Puxing Baofeng - Visual Moon Tracking
Java moon tracking software runs on LINUX, Win 98, Win NT, UNIX, OSF, MacOSX - MacIcomControl
Radio control software for the Macintosh - iSpectrum Analyzer
Macintosh audio spectrum analyzer that allows the user to view live audio in a standard frequency plot, a stereo oscilloscope view and a waterfall display - DX ToolBox
DX Toolbox searches the web for you, gathering information on solar and geomagnetic conditions that affect radio propagation. It's ideal for the ham radio operator, shortwave listener, or other radio enthusiast. - MacTNC
MacTNC is simple, configurable terminal software used by amateur (ham) radio operators to control a TNC (terminal node controller). MacTNC performs most of the same functions of other terminal software, but includes buttons for standard commands, and allows the user to configure additional buttons for special purposes. MacTNC works only user Mac OS X because it relies on Unix components of the current operating system. - Mac Antenna Master
Dipole, Yagi, Vertical, Cubic quad, Log periodic, J-pole, coil, and transmission line design package for the Macintosh - Macintosh SSTV Shareware
SSTV software is now available for the Macintosh computers, for the first time. - DarwinPSK
DarwinPsk is free to licensed ham radio operators and is a great application for PSK and RTTY communications under MacOSX - MacAPRS
Macintosh automatic position reporting system, developed by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, to track boats and vehicles using GPS and packet radio. MacAPRS was written by Keith Sproul, WU2Z and Mark Sproul, KB2ICI
- 10 QSO Logger- Ten-Ten International QSO parties logging program multi plaform run with Java under Windowd Linux MacOSX
- Aether- Aether is an ham radio logging for the Mac. Aether gives hams logging software that is as powerful, easy to use, and good looking as the operating system it runs on.Designed from the ground-up using Appleās Cocoa, Aether supports the latest Mac OS X technologies, and provides the experience that Mac users expect.[ Hits: 2809 Votes: 10 Rating: 8 ]
- Amadeus - Sound Recorder- Amadeus is a very powerful sound recorder and editor for Apple MacOS. Available in Lite and Pro version, is intuitive and a support many sound formats.
- Audacity- Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.[ Hits: 609 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- Audiocoreder- Audiocorder is a VOX program which allows your Macintosh to act as an audio recorder
- AudioXplorer- AudioXplorer is a sound analyzer software designed for Mac OSX, provide a real-time analysis window where you can visualize the sound spectrum and sonogram[ Hits: 432 Votes: 1 Rating: 9 ]
- Beam Aim- Draws a world map centered on your QTH. Type in a DX station's call sign to get the beam aim azimuth and distance to the station.
- Black Cat CW Keyer- Black Cat CW Keyer for Macintosh lets you send morse code from your computer. You can type out the text to be sent (immediately or buffered) as well as create and send from one key[ Hits: 3308 Votes: 5 Rating: 6.4 ]
- Cab-converter- A freeware apple Macintosh-based program that helps amateur radio contesters by converting a log from a radio contest into the Cabrillo file format which may be submitted to the contest sponsor.
- CHIRP- CHIRP is a cross-platform, cross-radio programming tool. It works on Windows and Linux and MacOSX. It can program many popular radios and exchange data between them includin Icom Kenwood Yaesu Alinco Wouxun Puxing Baofeng[ Hits: 11521 Votes: 32 Rating: 6.98 ]
- cocoaModem- CocoaModem is an opensource MacOSX application which implements modems (modulator-demodulators) for RTTY PSK MFSK Hellschreiber CW SITOR HF-FAX provided by W7AY
- cocoaNEC- cocoaNEC 2.0 is an opensource Mac OS X application intended primarily for the design and modeling of antennas by Kok Chen, W7AY[ Hits: 1509 Votes: 3 Rating: 10 ]
- CubicSDR- CubicSDR is a free SDR receiver which is based on the liquid-dsp libraries. Run under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X
- CuteSDR- CuteSDR Open-Source application forMacOSX , Linux, and Windows designed to run with RFSPace SDR receiver[ Hits: 4583 Votes: 3 Rating: 6.67 ]
- Darkice- DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server. Works on Linux and MacOSX
- DarwinPSK- DarwinPsk is free to licensed ham radio operators and is a great application for PSK and RTTY communications under MacOSX[ Hits: 5521 Votes: 8 Rating: 8.63 ]
- DF9CY Project Auriga- PA is a JAVA software package containing several programs, SW/VHF/UHF Logbook (imports format from RADIOMAN, VMT), Log conversion to HTML format,Import and export functions for RADIOMAN, CT RES files, BV QSL Labels, CSV etc.Internet DX-Cluster support, Keeps track of your worked Callsigns, Checks your worked Grid Squares per band, Databases for worked Grids and CallsignsUses K1EA CQWW.CTY country file,Easy command line version for terminal operationMoontracking as clock, Pathloss calculation
- dogparkSDR- dogparkSDR is a native Macintosh visual radio display and interactive control software for any Flex Radio Systems[ Hits: 537 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- DX ToolBox- DX Toolbox searches the web for you, gathering information on solar and geomagnetic conditions that affect radio propagation. It's ideal for the ham radio operator, shortwave listener, or other radio enthusiast.
- EchoMac- EchoMac is a client program for OS X that allows connection to the Echolink system[ Hits: 1125 Votes: 2 Rating: 5.5 ]
- EchoMac - Mac Ham Radio EchoLink Client- EchoMac is an apple macintosh client for EchoLink internet radio network.
- Elmer- Macintosh shareware, contains the full pool of questions for each of the five exams, and creates sample tests that will vary each time you take them and it will grade your exam.[ Hits: 1114 Votes: 2 Rating: 8 ]
- Fast Morse- Macintosh morse code software, Fast Morse will convert any text you enter into the original Morse code equivalent, and play it on your speakers. The speed can be adjusted to anything from 1 to 35 words per minute if your computer can keep up, allowing you to send Morse signals at a rate your friends and fellow Morse enthusiasts can follow!
- FKeyer- Application for the Apple Macintosh computer that provides a CW contesting interface for the popular MacLoggerDX loggging software. FKeyer runs on MacOS X and uses an external keyer such as the MicroHam CW keyer.[ Hits: 997 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- Fldigi- Fldigi Freeware Digital multi mode program for Linux, Free-BSD, MacOS X and MS Windows . Support CW and several digital modes like PSK31, MFSK, RTTY, Olivia, WeFax, Hell and others and is a fully multi platform application
- Flrig- Flrig is a transceiver control program designed to be used either stand alone or as an adjunct to fldigi. It is able to control most popular amateur radio transceivers from ICOM Kenwood and Yaesu. Can share the control over a local area network or can be used as a common gateway to your radio for serveral concurrent applications. Works on Mac Linux and Windows[ Hits: 1912 Votes: 5 Rating: 8 ]
- GQRX- GQRX is a free and simple to use SDR receiver which runs on Linux and MacOS X. GQRX comes with a standard FFT spectrum and waterfall display and a number of common filter settings
- GQRX for MacOS- OSX port of the awesome gqrx SDR software[ Hits: 1414 Votes: 4 Rating: 6.25 ]
- Grig Radio Control- Grig is a freeware simple Ham Radio control (CAT) program based on the Ham Radio Control Libraries (Hamlib). It is intended to be highly generic presenting the user to the same graphical user interface regardless of which radio is being controlled.Grig supports the most commonly used CAT commands that are implemented by Hamlib, and integrates well with other ham radio programs like Xlog and gMFSK.Grig has been developed on Linux, but has been ported on Mac and Windows OS.
- HourWorld World Clock- HourWorld is a program with rich graphics that can show you what time it is in a certain part of the world, and well as demonstrate what is actually looks like over the globe.[ Hits: 2897 Votes: 2 Rating: 5.5 ]
- iSpectrum- iSpectrum is a free spectrum analyzer for MacOS that allows you to display live audio in a standard frequency plot, waterfall display or in a stereo oscilloscope view. Used by ham radio operators, audiofiles, musicians, and Sound Technicians.
- iSpectrum Analyzer- Macintosh audio spectrum analyzer that allows the user to view live audio in a standard frequency plot, a stereo oscilloscope view and a waterfall display[ Hits: 7532 Votes: 4 Rating: 5.5 ]
- Jack Audiopop- Take the audio output of one piece of software and send it to another. JackAudio is a virtual audio software cable that run on Windows Linux and MacOS and if Free to download and to use.
- jLog- jLog is a modern Freeware Ham Log program that can run on all major platforms, e.g. Mac OS X, Mac OS, Linux/Unix, Windows, etc. It offers a nice, clean interface and allows efficient entry of QSOs.Import or Export of data using the standardized ADIF 2 format is possible to easily exchange data with any other decent Log program.Built-in CW Keyer, CAT control for many popular, rigs, DX Cluster tracking, call lookups[ Hits: 12619 Votes: 16 Rating: 8.56 ]
- JTDX- JTDX is a multimode software for amateur radio. Means JT & T modes for DXing, it is being developed with main focus on the sensitivity and decoding efficiency, both, in overcrowded and half empty HF band conditions.Support JT9, JT65, T10 and FT8 is released unde GNU licence, by UA3DJY and ES1JA. Run under Windows and Linux.
- Mac Antenna Master- Dipole, Yagi, Vertical, Cubic quad, Log periodic, J-pole, coil, and transmission line design package for the Macintosh[ Hits: 6271 Votes: 4 Rating: 5.5 ]
- Mac GrayLiner- Displays map of the world, showing day and night areas.
- Mac Memory Manager- Amateur Radio Memory Manager Software for the Mac support many Yaesu Icom AOR and Kenwood radios[ Hits: 1434 Votes: 1 Rating: 10 ]
- Mac the Scope- Mac the Scope is a professional quality signal analyzer, 1/3 octave RTA, signal generator, and more.
- MacAPRS- Macintosh automatic position reporting system, developed by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, to track boats and vehicles using GPS and packet radio. MacAPRS was written by Keith Sproul, WU2Z and Mark Sproul, KB2ICI[ Hits: 4800 Votes: 7 Rating: 3.85 ]
- MacDoppler- MacDoppler and MacDopplerPRO 3D satellite tracking and station automation software for Macintosh by Dog Park Software Ltd.
- MacDSP- Digital filter for Macintosh computers with a PowerPC processor[ Hits: 1821 Votes: 1 Rating: 3 ]
- MacGPS Pro- Mapping software which links a Garmin GPS receiver to your Macintosh. Includes Maidenhead grid squares and beam-pointing maps.
- MacIcomControl- Radio control software for the Macintosh[ Hits: 8206 Votes: 1 Rating: 10 ]
- Macintosh SSTV Shareware- SSTV software is now available for the Macintosh computers, for the first time.
- MacK2- A Remote Control Program for the Elecraft K2 Amateur Radio Transceiver using the Apple Macintosh[ Hits: 304 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- MacLoggerDX- While you are enjoying your favourite scheduled SWL program, DX Net, or W1AW Bulletin, MacLoggerDX is combing the internet looking for the latest Hot DX Spot
- MacPacSat- allows a Macintosh computer to communicate via packet radio with the amateur packet satellites currently in operation using the 'PACSAT' protocols[ Hits: 1444 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- Macpcr- Icom PCR1000 driving program for Mac available at yahoo groups, login required.
- MacProp- Propagation forecasting software for the Macintosh[ Hits: 1735 Votes: 2 Rating: 5.5 ]
- MacSchedKeeper- Macintosh Rig Control for Kenwood TS-50
- MacTNC- MacTNC is simple, configurable terminal software used by amateur (ham) radio operators to control a TNC (terminal node controller). MacTNC performs most of the same functions of other terminal software, but includes buttons for standard commands, and allows the user to configure additional buttons for special purposes. MacTNC works only user Mac OS X because it relies on Unix components of the current operating system.[ Hits: 6623 Votes: 10 Rating: 6.63 ]
- MoonSked- Moon tracking for Mac Windows and Linux for EME by GM4JJJ
- Morse Machine for MacOSX- This free program teaches you to receive Morse code. It starts with a few letters and adds more when it sees that you are ready. Based on A Fully Automatic Morse Code Teaching Machine, it is a small application and it runs even on recent MacOSX versions.[ Hits: 141 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- Morse Mania- A morse code tutor for the Macintosh.
- Morse Runner on MacOS- Run Morse Runner on Apple MacOSX computers using Wineskin. Morse Runner is a popular MS Windows morse code contest simulator. You can do this by yourself or just download the ready-made dmg and use it on your apple mac.[ Hits: 111 Votes: 1 Rating: 9 ]
- MultiMode- Digital modes decoding software for the macintosh. Decodes CW, RTTY, WEFAX, SATFAX, ACARS, DTMF, SSTV
- MULTISCAN 3B SSTV for Apple MacOS- SSTV on Mac is possible using MultiScan 3 B is an application for Ham Radio Slow Scan TV (SSTV) Communications. It is build to run on Mac OS X 10.6 or later versions. MultiScan 3B can transmit and receive pictures in the following formats (modes):Robot black Robot Color Socttie Martin, PD Modes:P Modes: P3, P5 and P7 AVT All modes can be send/received in regular, narrow, QRM and narrow+QRM modes[ Hits: 1131 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- Osmond PCB- Printed circuit board design for Macintosh
- phpHamLog- Amateur radio open source log program written in PHP. Put your log online for visitors to browse in real time. Access your log from any web browse, can run under windows linux and macos with apache, mysql and php[ Hits: 1234 Votes: 1 Rating: 1 ]
- PocketPacket Mac OS- PocketPacket started as an APRS client for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad devices, but is also available for the Mac desktop or laptop. PocketPacket incorporates a software-based TNC, allowing you to directly capture and visualize, or encode and transmit 1200 baud packets (AFSK modulation) using a VHF radio transceiver.
- Promethius- Logbook software for the Macintosh by Chris Smolinski[ Hits: 1759 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- QRQ CW trainer- qrq is an open source Morse telegraphy trainer which runs on several operating systems (Linux, Unix, OS X and Windows), similar to the classic DOS version of Rufz by DL4MM.
- QST Browser- A Mac OS X application for searching and viewing the back issues of periodicals that are published by the ARRL in CD-ROM format.[ Hits: 422 Votes: 1 Rating: 10 ]
- Radio Explorer- Graphic viewer for shortwave broadcasting and programming schedules. Supports viewing schedules in an expanding table and on a 24-hour Gantt chart using the local time and the UTC time display modes. Runs on multiple platforms.
- RF Toolbox- A MacOSX antenna design and electronics/electrical tool package. It is a multipourpose application that allow antenna design and comomn calculations[ Hits: 587 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- RUMLog- RUMlog is a fully featured general ham radio logbook program, with contest logging capability and QSL handling/printing tool for MacOSX.RUMlog is free to download and can interface with most popular Icom Elecraft Yaesu Kenwood Transceiver, and CW keyers. Offer mapping, Dx cluster, check, import export, and many functions commonly available on most popular logbook programs.
- RUMtrol7000- Windows and MacOS programming software for the ICOM IC-7000[ Hits: 2195 Votes: 5 Rating: 5 ]
- RUMtrol746PRO- This program is used for the ICOM IC-746PRO, IC-7400.You can edit all the setting and write it to file for later use. Runs on Windows Linux and MacOSx
- Satscape- Satscape is a freeware program for the PC Macintosh and Linux. It produces real-time displays of where any Satellite is, and predicts passes for your locale. There are about 8000+ satellites in orbit, a lot of these are just junk and debris such as discarded rocket bodies, but quite a few are working Satellites.[ Hits: 12137 Votes: 20 Rating: 5.75 ]
- SCR-Log- Scr-log freeware logging program for mac, windows, linux and dos. designed for school, club, and individual class stations to use during school club roundup.
- SkookumLogger- SkookumLogger is a free contest logging program for Mac OS X 10.7 or later, supporting CW and SSB events on the six HF contest bands plus 6m, 4m, 2m, and 70cm[ Hits: 520 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- SoundFlower- Soundflower is a Mac OS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed. Soundflower is free.
- Spek- Spek helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.Spek supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.[ Hits: 1996 Votes: 1 Rating: 10 ]
- The KB6IBB Utilities- Ham radio frequency list consolidation software.The Ham Radio database can house a unlimited number of records. Holding frequency information from DC to Daylight. The Radio Scanner Database is designed to emulate a radio scanner. A 5,000 record table is provided and is organized by channel number.
- Time Palette- World Time and Mapping software including Azimuthal Maps.[ Hits: 1611 Votes: 4 Rating: 8.75 ]
- TK5 for IC-R5- Open source software designed for the ICOM IC-R5 receiver. Linux, MacOS X and Windows
- Trusted QSL- Open source libraries and utilities to support using digital signatures for Amateur radio QSL system information like eqsl and lotw. Available for windows macos e linux.[ Hits: 2374 Votes: 2 Rating: 10 ]
- Visual Moon Tracking- Java moon tracking software runs on LINUX, Win 98, Win NT, UNIX, OSF, MacOSX
- Waavebox- MacOSX real-time precision signal / waveform generator. Uses native Mac sound Out capabilities.[ Hits: 783 Votes: 2 Rating: 1.5 ]
- WiNRADiO for Mac- WiNRADiO for Mac, WiNRADiO provides Apple Macintosh support for our most popular receiver, the WR-1550e, a medium-range external receiver with frequency range 150 kHz to 1.5 GHz
- Wireless Field Day Log Program- A reliable logging system for Field Day basedon wireless networking. Freeware, runs on macintosh, linux and windows[ Hits: 1965 Votes: 1 Rating: 10 ]
- XASTIR- Xastir is program for receiving and plotting APRS position packets. Development is a collaborative effort of programmers and amateur radio enthusiasts from around the world. Xastir supports many map formats and is highly customizable.Xastir runs on Windows/MacOSX/Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/Lindows. It supports 125 map formats, several types of TNC's and weather stations, Festival speech synthesizer, AX.25 networking (Soundmodem/Baycom/SCC!) and seven languages!.
- Xastir- Xastir MacOSX APRS software for receiving and plotting APRS(tm) position packets. Xastir supports many map formats and is highly customizable[ Hits: 631 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- xCAT xDAX for macOSX and FlexRadio 6000- xCAT is an helper application for the FlexRadio 6000 series running on macOS computers to control via CAT protocol tranceivers, while xDAX purpose is to provide a way for Digital Mode Software like Fldigi, WSJT-X to access the digital audio data (DAX) of the FlexRadioTM
- Yea Cabrillo2Adif Converter- Cabrillo2Adif A software for converting the radio logs from Cabrillo to Adif log format (for Mac OS X)[ Hits: 850 Votes: 0 Rating: 0 ]
- Yea Cabrillo2Adif Converter- Yea Cabrillo2Adif is a free software for converting the radio logs from Cabrillo to Adif log format for MacOSX
- YeaLogger- Free ham radio logging software for Mac OS X by SM7YEA[ Hits: 1302 Votes: 3 Rating: 9.33 ]