Year 2026
In 2026, most of my now rather old PC programs have received major updates.
Some of these programs started as fairly simple tools for controlling instruments or helping with measurements, but over the years they have grown into much more complete applications.
SARK-100 and WHY VNA are now genuinely useful measurement programs, with features that make these inexpensive instruments much more capable in everyday use.
The software for the Eaton 2075 noise figure meter and the HP 859x spectrum analyzers has also been heavily improved, adding a more modern interface and useful functions to instruments that are getting quite old by now, but are still very capable.
I like the idea of keeping good old test equipment useful instead of replacing it simply because the original software is outdated or the user interface belongs to another era.
The same applies to my radio-related programs. WHY Waterfall, for example, has developed from a simple audio waterfall into a much more capable spectrum and signal-monitoring program, now including DSP functions, CW decoding and a multi-channel CW skimmer.
There have also been many updates to WHY Logger and several of my other small amateur-radio projects.
Most of these programs originally started because I needed a particular function myself. They are not commercial products, and development is mostly driven by curiosity and practical use in the shack.
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