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 […]
Shortly after the turn of the year, Heidi and I came to the conclusion that we would be leaving California and looking to set up our home elsewhere. We had not decided “where”, but did know that Heidi wanted to complete the school year – she works as a Child Nutrition Specialist at the Child Nutrition Center, located in the […]
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 […]
These are some of the existing Ham-related packages I intend to exploit on the RPi4 in due time. Most will require a successful hardware interface be accomplished before they can be fully operational. Once they are, (fully operational), the plan is to come back and dedicate a page to each describing what was done to get it going. [X] means […]