During the month of January, a lot of work was done on the FlexRadio integration. This consisted of adding some features to the AppImage that were desired by the users testing it, such as:

• Enabling the SO_REUSEADDR socket flag on the discovery socket so that the waveform doesn’t interfere with other applications running on the user’s Raspberry Pi (such as NodeRed)
• Allowing Ctrl-C to be used to exit the waveform
• Additional command line arguments to provide a reporting message to FreeDV Reporter, adjust audio volume, and perform other configuration

For the main FreeDV application, additional functionality was also implemented around the FreeDV Reporter window, such as being able to right-click on callsigns and perform lookups and having a more visible indication that the idle filter is enabled. Once these features were added, an additional several weeks were taken to fix bugs discovered during testing before version 2.2.0 was finally released near the end of the month.

During this coming month (February), I’ll be preparing for travel to Orlando HamCation, where I will again be giving a talk about FreeDV as well as manning the FreeDV booth. Hope to see you there!

More information can be found in the commit history below:

• freedv-gui
• freedv-reporter

(Note that all commit logs above were generated with the following command line:)

git log --author="member@email" --after "Month 1, 2026" --before "Month 31, 2026 23:59:59" --all