[nos-bbs] mercury OFDM software modem ?

[Steve Stroh]

Maiko:

Mercury has been covered extensively in Zero Retries.

The Packet Radio Forwarding Network has it under test with several stations.

Steve N8GNJ


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On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 21:07 <maiko at pcsinternet.ca> wrote:

> The latest ARDC news noted something that took me by big surprise :
>
>      KM6LYW Radio demos sending a Winlink email over HF using
>       Rhizomatica's Mercury soft modem ...
>
> Digging a bit more and I found this software repository :
>
>     https://github.com/Rhizomatica/mercury
>
> Downloaded the zip to my slackware 15.0, took less then a minute to
> compile
> and install, the binary comes up, now I need to play with this. This
> sounds
> like what I have been looking for, for a long time, a linux OFDM modem,
> not
> just any modem by the sounds of it.
>
> Clearly I have not been paying enough attention, has anyone followed
> these
> folks over the years ? Has anyone tried earlier versions of the
> software.
>
> Bob, this not the same as the HERMES modem you were telling me about, no
> ?
>
> Maiko / VE4KLM
>
>
>
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