WASSTV

WASSTV is a niche software publisher whose sole public offering, EasyPal, targets amateur-radio enthusiasts who want to send and receive high-quality digital images across HF and VHF bands without investing in dedicated hardware modems. Built around the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) HF-data waveform, EasyPal turns a standard sound-card-equipped PC into a narrow-band image modem, automatically compressing, error-correcting and interleaving photographs, charts or screenshots so they survive the fades, noise and multi-path typical of short-wave links. Operators can select from several bandwidths (500 Hz–2.7 kHz) and modulation schemes to match band conditions, while an integrated RS-ID and callsign database simplifies identifying distant stations. The program embeds a thumbnail gallery, auto-slideshow viewer, and SSTV-style image captioning, making it equally suitable for casual “image QSOs”, emergency traffic, or club bulletin broadcasts; advanced users value the command-line TX/RX interface that allows unattended operation with logging software or scheduled beacons. Because all encoding/decoding is done in software, upgrades appear as simple executable refreshes rather than firmware flashes, keeping the modem current with evolving DRM protocols. WASSTV’s EasyPal is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always fetching the newest release and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.