Richard Fakenberg

Software architect  ·  Czech Republic  ·  OK1BR

I lead development at Monitoring RC System, where I am responsible for the backend of a vehicle tracking platform — telemetry, processing data from GPS units, and the web application on top of it.

In my own time I write native Linux applications in plain C on GTK4 and libadwaita. No Electron, no extra runtime — a program compiled against the system libraries that starts instantly and behaves like part of the desktop. All of it is open source, written because this software simply did not exist for amateur radio on Linux.

Projects

• sdr-for-linux

  SDR transceiver for HPSDR and ANAN radios. Full-float panadapter and waterfall, receive and transmit, PureSignal, built-in TCI server.

• skimmer-for-linux

  Multi-channel skimmer for CW, RTTY and PSK. Decodes a whole band at once and works together with the other apps over TCI.

• log-for-linux

  Station logbook built for contesting — exchange templates, live scoring, Cabrillo and ADIF export.

• pass-for-linux

  Password manager for the pass format. Talks to GPG and Git through their libraries rather than shelling out to external binaries.

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