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ar5 control software for AR5000 communications receiver

ar5 provides simplified access to the many powerful features of the AR5000 and much more.

Supplied to official bodies, academic institutions, commercial organisations and individual users.

Announcement 1st February 2011:

High demand for AR5 Free Edition has resulted in the website bandwidth limit being exceeded and additional cost. For the time being therefore, in order that costs may be kept under control, it is requested that people with a genuine interest in AR5 please make contact via the link at the bottom of this page for a download link.

Announcement 12th January 2011:

Due to popular demand, AR5 is available again, and now it is free for use but without support. Existing customers who have purchased licences (and new donors) will receive support as usual.

Note: AR5 is not compatible with 64 bit versions of Windows. There will not be a new version to support the AR5001.

New: Tune a rig connected to HRD version 5 from AR5/AR5000:

Download AR5HRDInterface, unzip to a new folder and read Release_Notes.txt.

Other Free Applications:

These are included in the AR5 install package but can be used stand alone by anyone. Bkn5 is built into AR5.

SR5 FFT Spectrum display, FFT audio filter, FFIR audio filters.

Bkn5 Simple display of IARU beacons, links to SR5 to show on FFT display.

AR5Grabber grab frequencies from text files, websites, export to CSV and AR5 formats.



ar5 version info

sr5 version info