Typing this blog entry on the 1st of July, 2020. The first half of this year has been strange indeed, due primarily to something we referred to originally as a new Coronavirus coming out of China and now popularly called “Covid-19”. About all I have to say on it at this point is to ask when did “Chicken Little” get […]
I have been kind of bragging on Jason KM4ACK and his Build a Pi project in this blog for a spell now. The project has had its difficulties, primarily technical surprises, but as of this morning June 23rd, 2020 – I predict that most of those have been overcome and the largest problem with Ham radio operators using it on […]
One of the most severe limits on Raspian/Raspberry Pi OS was having to boot the Raspberry pi computer from a (relatively slow) Micro SD card. One of the “work-arounds” has been to use something like “Bootberry 2.0” on the SD Card and through it, install multiple operating systems on a Solid State Drive (SSD) connected via USB. On June 15th, […]
I have decided to upgrade the Raspberry Pi dedicated to our Ham Shack to the newly released RPi4 8gb. In doing so, after installing the latest release of Raspberry Pi OS, I will be flashing the firmware to the latest beta release in order to enable booting from USB first. Finally, I intend to install a, relatively inexpensive, SSD to […]
Important – please see the UPDATE section near the bottom of this article. If you are even remotely interested in setting up/using a Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer (SBC) with your Amateur Radio – you have *GOT* to take a look at the extensive work being done by Jason, KM4ACK, on his YouTube channel – (opens in a separate incident/web […]
Note: I must give credit to Dave Slotter, W3DJS for compiling the list I based this post on. Currently, this list is far from comprehensive, but I rather enjoyed the way Dave broke down the categories listed below. This will give me a working document and, in time, it will be replaced. For now, thought I would share it with […]
There are many other Hams that are doing a whole lot more than I am with the Raspberry Pi 4B w/ 4GB memory… Here are links to a few of them whom I am fairly certain will be pursuing this part of the Ham Radio Hobby for the long term: OH8STN – Julian whose radio interests in off-grid communications and […]
“Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. Conky is free software and runs in X on Linux and BSD. Originally a fork of Torsmo, Conky’s torsmo-based code is BSD licensed. New code in Conky has been licensed under the GPL 3.0.” “The name Conky comes from a character in […]
UPDATE: I can no longer recommend going in this direction. I’m not sure what happened – in August everything was going great guns with this section of the SDRPlay forums and, the 32 bit version of the SDRPlay Raspberry Pi image file – to be set up on your RPi4 was made available. The folks at SDRPlay even announced a […]
Court is still out on this one – but I have successfully installed and configured the Pi-hole server on our RPi4 and modified the settings on our Wifi router to use it as the primary DNS server here. I do not believe I can recommend this one to the novice, especially if you are unsure of how to set up […]