Ham Shack Navigator: A Self-Hosted Dashboard for the Modern Ham Radio Operator
It's been a while since I've posted (like over a year!) so I figured it's probably a good time to write up one of the projects I've been working on, which I've named "Ham Shack Cockpit". The idea for this came to me one night when I was running FT8, constantly cycling between WSJT-X, pskreporter, dxheat, QRZ and other websites so that I could keep an eye on band conditions, band activity, and see which stations were receiving me (and where), I've been doing quite a bit of work with Anthropic Claude Code of late, using it to create various projects including a complete rewrite of my ham radio club's website (na0tc.org), updating it from a 2006-vintage docuwiki site to a modern JavaScript-based HTML 5 site, built entirely using open source software and running on Ubuntu Linux. Over the course of about a month (with many gaps), I "vibe coded" a cockpit (aka dashboard) that incorporated a lot of the station control and monitoring components...
