Envisioning the Future of Software-Defined Amateur Radio

Written by Steve Stollro N8GNJ (Originally published in The Communicator, November-December 2025 issue) In a sense, we have been living in the era of “Software-Defined Amateur Radio” for about a decade. Many of the commonly used modes today—such as FT8—are “almost entirely implemented in software.” What truly makes FT8 usable is the software running on … Read more