Most recent amateur radio transceivers allow external control of their functions through a computer interface. Unfortunately, control commands are not always consistent across a manufacturer's product line and each manufacturer's product line differs greatly from its competitors.
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This library addresses that issue by providing a standardised programming interface that applications can talk to and translating that into the appropriate commands required by the radio in use.
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This package provides the run-time form of the library. If you wish to develop software using this library you need the 'hamlib-devel' package.
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Also included in the package is a simple radio control program 'rigctl', which let one control a radio transceiver or receiver, either from command line interface or in a text-oriented interactive interface.