The goals of the project are simple: to develop a free program with open-source code for amateur radio users so they can use modern radios on modern operating systems, free of charge and with open-source code. SWL, so they can use modern radios on modern operating systems, free of charge and with open-source code.
wfview is a program that allows control of many modern Icom transceivers (such as IC-7300, IC-9700, IC-7610, IC-R8600, IC-705, and many others) via a computer. It displays a beautiful spectrum on any connected display, including projectors, touch screens, and televisions. It allows full radio control from the computer keyboard and basic control from the numeric keypad. It can run on hardware from Raspberry Pi for $35 to laptops and desktop computers. It also runs on the latest versions of Linux, MacOS, and Windows.Supports platform control via Ethernet/WIFI, as well as via the traditional USB CI-V serial bus. wfview also allows access to older radios over the Internet for full control and low-latency audio streaming.
Development of wfview started in 2018 by Elliott (W6EL) as a simple way to display the waterfall from the IC-7300 radio on the Linux system, in order to display this data on large screens.
wfview supports these Icom transceiver
The following radios were tested by March 2021 and are known to work well: IC-705, IC-7300, IC-7610, IC-R8600, IC-7850, and IC-9700
Other transceivers are also supported, but within the limits of their control. It is clear that many more modern features (such as waterfall display) are not available on these older radios: IC-706 MKIIG, IC-718, IC-736, IC-737, IC-738, IC-756, IC-756 Pro, IC-756 Pro II, IC-756 Pro III IC-7000, IC-7100, IC-7200, IC-7410, IC-7600, IC-7700, IC-7800, IC-910H, IC-9100
More information and download
Learn more, support development and download wfview at https://wfview.org