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| Welcome to the Airlink Express web site.
Latest version: 1.5.1.222, released on 08/07/2008
AirLink Express is a user friendly digital mode software package for the Amateur Radio Operator. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP
and Microsoft Windows Vista. It offers PSK, MFSK and RTTY digital modes with logging and macro capabilities. If you have ever used the Digipan software you will be immediately familiar with Airlink Express. The user interface is almost identical.
How is Airlink Express different from other digital mode software, you ask? Well, it is from the ground up designed to be compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista. You may have noticed that when you run older digital mode software on Vista, that certain functions do not work anymore, or do not work the way you expect them to work. Probably the number one reason for this is that the audio architecture is completely redesigned for Vista by Microsoft. The most obvious indication of this is the absence of the traditional mixer interface. Airlink Express is
developed to support the new architecture in Vista, yet it maintains complete backward compatibility with Windows XP. Airlink Express brings back the familiar volume slider interface you've become used to from older Windows versions.
The DSP engine used in Airlink Express is MMVari by Makoto Mori, JE3HHT. This engine is very flexible and decodes as well, if not better, than any other soundcard mode engine currently available. It is used by many other software products like Logger32 and the N1MM contest logger.
This version of Airlink supports multiple sound cards. All sound settings, including volume settings, are stored in Airlink Express and are recalled whenever Airlink Express starts. No separate software is needed to store volume settings.
Airlink Express is built on the Microsoft .Net Framework. The logging information is stored in an Access database. This means that you can access this information if you have a copy of Microsoft Access running on your computer. The logbook database can be exported to a file in ADIF (version 2) format so it can be imported into your favorite logging software. All other information, like settings and macros, are stored in human readable XML files.
If you find any bugs or have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to send me a note.
73,
--Alex Krist, KR1ST
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