The New PDW Project

[waltje]

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[waltje]

Hi all!

Just a quick word here.

PDW has been around for a looong, long time, and I last messed with it in, oh, 2008 or 2009 or so, setting up a station to monitor Dutch P2000 (emergency and utility services in The Netherlands) traffic. That simply an old "mini PC", connected to an old Condor 16 mobile radio fixed at 168.65MHz, using a direct soundcard link.

Now, many years (and a transatlantic move) later, I was interested in picking up some Pocsag traffic, and decided to give PDW another run. Surprised to see it opensourced, I went ahead and grabbed the code.

This project is intended mainly for myself, to create a cleaned-up version of PDW, modernized to current-day tools, and to eventually provide:

• clean C source, no C++
• where possible, separation of platform/UI and generic code
• multi-platform (it now supports Windows on x86, x64, arm and arm64)
• starting point for adding support for WxWidgets and/or Qt, for Linux/macOS/Android etc

A "headless" variant is also in my planning, so I can run it on bare hardware (AVR, ARM etc), or as a server-based service.

If you are interested in especially the Wx/Qt stuff, speak up! I may not have time for this, soo..

Fred KA4YBR