While that was true at one time, the terms the program was licensed under did not grant a permanent license to freely distribute the program forever.

When I began hosting HRD, I originally obtained my copy of the software from Simon the authors site, this had a notice that the software was authorized for free distribution by its original author (Simon Brown, HB9DRV). It turns out, that notice was inaccurate. I've recently become aware of a number of things, and would like to give you a clear overview of the current situation surrounding Ham Radio Deluxe in general. I originally began hosting Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD) because I was a huge fan of the program, and noticed that it was only being hosted on a few other sites, I've been hosting HRD for a few year's and it's been a fantastic experience being able to assist the Amateur Radio community in obtaining the software. I'd greatly appreciate if you'd take a minute to read the following message. V6 of HRD costs $100, after a trial period The new owners of HRD have taken all the archive version's off their servers The link below gets you the latest version of the HRD suite. The five modules in the suite provide rig control, logging,ĭigital communications, satellite tracking, and rotator control.

Ham Radio Deluxe is a suite of software products for amateur radio. The best radio control package was probably Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD), So here's a collection of Free downloadable stuff,Īlso the author's are good enough to release there work for free, So where possible please try to donate to them even if its only a small amount We all know us radio types like to do it on the cheap, And even better if its free