The Amateur Radio Software Award is an annual international award for the recognition of software projects that enhance amateur radio.
The award aims to promote amateur radio software development which adhere to the same spirit as amateur radio itself: innovative, free and open.

2025 Award Nominations

Get your Amateur Radio Software Award nomination submitted!

Nominate your favorite open source software for the Amateur Radio Software Award!

Nominations for the 2025 awards must be submitted by February 28, 2025. Please use the awards nominations form to submit your nominations. The award rules and the faq are good resources to ensure your nominations are eligible and may answer any questions you have.

The Amateur Radio Software Award is in its sixth year. Past recipients were Anthony Good (K3NG) for Arduino CW Keyer, Jordan Sherer (KN4CRD) for JS8Call, David Rowe (VK5DGR) for Codec 2, Stephen Loomis (N0TTL) and the GridTracker team for GridTracker, and Jakob Ketterl (DD5JFK) for OpenWebRX and Marat Fayzullin (KC1TXE) for OpenWebRX+. Checkout the Award Recipients page for more details about the past recipients.