The much revised Mac-Based Amateur Radio Applications guide can be viewed and downloaded from the Amateur Radio/Mac Amateur Radio Digital Applications area.

The guide is focused on an M1 silicon-based Mac – my personal MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) recently transitioning to MacOS 14 (Sonoma), with a Kenwood TS-990S; M2 Macs should not be an issue.  Older Intel silicon-based Macs can also effectively run the logger and the applications as presented in the guide.  Examples include a MacBook Pro (15-inch, mid-2015) running MacOS 12 (Monterey) used by my youngest son, Kris, KF0KVY, with a Kenwood TS-590S.  An even older MacBook Air (mid-2012) running MacOS 10 (Catalina) was used by my oldest son, Nate, KD5OCU, with an Icom IC-7300; he now uses a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) running MacOS 13 (Ventura).

Shortly after starting the guide's update, a significant revelation appeared – the topic areas previously believed to be logically presented just were not.  The areas were found to be fragmented where you needed to go back and forth between areas to make sense of it all.  Yes, there was a lot of information and details, but the “flow” in how things initially come together, and then build from, was missing.  With that, this revision’s focus evolved to its restructuring and quite a bit of rewriting getting some logic into the flow of events needing to occur prior to subsequent events happening.  My hope with this version is now having the various parts in a more straightforward or aligned approach.

A recenlty acquired Yaesu FT-710 HF/50MHz Transceiver (bought at the 2023 Dayton Hamvention) has been integrated (with difficulty).

The primary equipment and software covered in the Mac-Based Amateur Radio Applications guide includes:

• Computers

  • MacBook Pro (M1, 2021) running MacOS 13 (Sonoma)

  • MacBook Pro (Mid-2015) running MacOS 12 (Ventura)

  • MacBook Air (2012) running MacOS 10 (Monterey)

• Transceivers

  • Kenwood TS-990S HF/50 MHz Transceiver

  • Kenwood TS-590S HF/50 MHz All Mode Transceiver

  • Icom IC-7300 HF/50 MHz Transceiver

  • Yaesu FT-710 HF/50 MHz Transceiver

• Logging Application

  • MacLoggerDX (MLDX)

• Digital Applications

  • WSJT-X

  • fldigi

• Other Applications

  • SkookumLogger

  • WinKeyer USB

The Mac-Based Amateur Radio Applications guide started as a personal project documenting configuration challenges and trials mainly getting fldigi configured and logically integrated with MLDX using a Macintosh computer (Mac) and a Kenwood TS-990S HF/50 MHz Transceiver during 2018.  WSJT-X and its configuration and integration with MLDX were also documented.  I figured if I struggled with the configuration and integration with MLDX, fldigi, and WSJT-X and succeeded; then there may be others "out there" that could benefit.

The first attempt creating a website still languishes "out there" on qsl.net at https://www.qsl.net/vk8jj/.  It was created shortly after returning to Alice Springs in APR98.  Unfortunately due to work and family, it was never updated after moving to another residence about a year later (where we lived for another 5+ years until returing back to the US and Colorado in 2004).  It had been several years since last seeing it -- thinking that it might have been deleted.