Raspberry Pi 5 for Radio Amateurs : Program and Build Raspberry Pi 5 Based Ham Station Utilities with the RTL-SDR / Dogan Ibrahim and Ahmet Ibrahim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibrahim, Dogan, author.

Ibrahim, Ahmet, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Raspberry Pi (Computer).

Radio--Amateurs' manuals.

Radio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Susteren, The Netherlands : Elektor International Media B.V., [2024]

Contents:

Raspberry Pi 5 for Radio Amateurs

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Contents

Preface

1 ● Installing the Raspberry Pi 5 Operating System

1.1 Overview

1.2 Using a pre-installed micro SD card

1.3 Larger font in Console mode

1.4 Accessing your Raspberry Pi 5 Console from your PC - the Putty Program

1.5 Accessing the Desktop GUI from your PC

1.6 Assigning a Static IP Address to your Raspberry Pi 5

1.7 Enabling Bluetooth

1.8 Connecting the Raspberry Pi 5 to a Wired Network

1.8.1 Unable to connect to a wired network

1.9 Installing the Raspberry Pi 5 Bookworm Operating System on a Blank microSD Card

2 ● Using a Text editor, Creating and Running a Python Program

2.1 The nano Text Editor

2.2 Creating and Running a Python Program

2.2.1 Method 1 - Interactively from command prompt in Console mode

2.3 Which method?

3 ● Amateur Radio Programs - Software-Only

3.1 Overview

3.2 4-Band Resistor Color Code Identifier

3.3 4-Band Resistor Color Code Identifier Including Very Small Resistors

3.4 Series or Parallel Resistors

3.5 Capacitor Identification

3.6 Capacitors in Series or in Parallel

3.7 Resistive Potential Divider

3.8 Resistive Attenuator Design

3.9 RC Charging Transient Circuit Response

3.10 Calculating the Inductance of a Single-Layer, Air-Core Coil

3.11 Constructing a single layer coil for required inductance

3.12 Calculating the Capacitance for Required Resonance Frequency

3.13 DC Circuits Mesh Analysis

3.13.1 DC Circuits mesh analysis - a more complex example

3.14 DC Circuit Node Analysis

3.15 Bipolar Junction Transistor Analysis

3.16 Designing Active Low-Pass Filters

3.17 Passive Low-Pass Butterworth Filter Design

3.18 The 555 Timer IC

3.19 Impedance Matching

3.20 Designing a Common-Emitter BJT Transistor Amplifier Circuit.

3.21 Using a Windows-Based Simulation Program

3.21.1 Simulating the Resistive Mesh Circuit in Figure 3.33

3.21.2 Simulating the transistor circuit in Figure 3.42

3.21.3 Simulating the transistor circuit in Figure 3.66

4 ● Hardware Based Projects for Amateur Radio

4.1 Overview

4.2 Project 1: Logic Probe

4.3 Project 2: Station Mains On-Off Power Control

4.4 Project 3: Station Clock with Output to the Monitor

4.5 Project 4: Station Clock with Output to LCD

4.6 Project 5: Station Geographical Coordinates

4.7 Project 6: Waveform Generation in Software - Sawtooth waveform

4.7.1 The MCP4921 DAC

4.8 Project 7: Generating a Waveform - Frequency Entry using Keypad and L

4.8.1 The AD9850

4.8.2 Starting the program automatically at boot time

4.8.3 Boxing the project

4.9 Project 8: Morse Code Exerciser with Rotary Encoder and LCD to Set wpm Value

4.9.1 Rotary encoder

4.9.2 Boxing the project

4.10 Project 9: Morse Decoder

4.11 Project 10: Frequency Counter

4.12 Project 11: FM Radio with Raspberry Pi 5

4.13 Project 12: Modified Project - Increasing the Output Signal Level - Connecting a Loudspeaker

4.14 Project 13: FM Radio using an LCD and Rotary Encoder to Set the Frequency

5 ● Raspberry Pi 5 Audio Output

5.1 Overview

5.2 Using an External USB Audio Adapter

5.3 Testing the Audio Output

5.4 Audio Volume

6 ● RTL-SDR Meets Raspberry Pi 5

6.1 Overview

6.2 RTL-SDR V3

6.3 RTL-SDR V4 vs V3

6.4 The RTL-SDR Antenna Kit

6.4.1. Dipole orientation

6.4.2. Terrestrial signal reception

6.4.3. Satellite reception

6.4.4. Choosing the antenna element length

6.5 Hardware Setup

6.6 Installing the RTL-SDR Software on Raspberry Pi 5

6.7 Testing - Tuning to a Frequency Manually

6.8 Testing the RTL-SDR Dongle

7 ● A Simple FM Receiver

7.1 Overview.

7.2 The Program

7.2.1 Creating a shell script

8 ● GQRX on the Raspberry Pi 5

8.1 Overview

8.2 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

8.3 Using the GQRX

8.3.1 The audio frame

8.3.2 Streaming audio to your PC

9 ● SDR++

9.1 Overview

9.2 Installing SDR++ on the Raspberry Pi 5

9.3 Using the SDR++

9.3.1 Quick startup example

9.3.2 Graphical outputs

9.3.3 Source options

9.3.4 Display options

9.3.5 Radio module

9.3.6 Frequency Manager

9.3.7 Recorder

10 ● CubicSDR

10.1 Introduction to CubicSDR

10.2 Quick Startup

11 ● RTL-SDR Server

11.1 Overview

12 ● Dump1090

12.1 Overview

12.2 Dump1090 Essential Features

12.3 Installing Dump1090 on the Raspberry Pi 5

12.4 Launching the Dump1090 Software

13 ● FLDIGI

13.1 Overview

13.2 Features

13.3 Digital Formats

13.4 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

13.5 Starting the Program

13.6 Decoding Morse Code (CW)

13.7 Receiving Weather Fax (WEFAX)

13.8 Receiving RTTY Traffic

13.8.1 Using fldigi to receive RTTY messages

13.9 Receiving NAVTEX Messages

13.9.1 Using fldigi to receive NAVTEX messages

14 ● Quisk

14.1 Overview

14.2 Installing quisk on the Raspberry Pi 5

15 ● RTL_433

15.1 Overview

15.2 Installing RTL_433 on the Raspberry Pi 5

15.3 Program Options

16 ● Other SDR hardware

16.1 Overview

16.2 HackRF One

16.3 NooElec NESDR Smart HF Bundle

16.4 BladeRF

16.5 LimeSDR

16.6 Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)

16.7 ADALM-Pluto

16.8 AirSpy HF+ Discovery

17 ● Installation and Use of Some Popular Radio Applications

17.1 Overview

17.2 Aldo Morse Code Tutor - Text Based

17.2.1 Installing aldo on the Raspberry Pi 5

17.3 xcwcp Morse Code Tutor - Graphical

17.3.1 Installing xcwcp on Raspberry Pi 5.

17.4 GPredict - Satellite/Orbital Object Tracking and Rig Control

17.4.1 Installing GPredict on Raspberry Pi 5

17.4.2 GPredict controls

17.5 TWCLOCK

17.5.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.5.2 Using the program

17.6 CQRLOG

17.6.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.6.2 Running the program

17.7 Klog

17.7.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.7.2 Using the program

17.8 Morse2Ascii

17.8.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.8.2 Using the program

17.9 PyQSO

17.9.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.9.2 Using the program

17.10 Welle.io (DAB/DAB+ Radio)

17.10.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.10.2 Running the program

17.11 Ham Clock

17.11.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.11.2 Running the program

17.11.3 Accessing from a web browser

17.12 Chirp

17.12.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.12.2 Running the program

17.13 Xastir

17.13.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.13.2 Running the program and configuring for internet APRS

17.14 QSSTV

17.14.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.14.2 Running the program

17.14.3 Testing the program

17.15 FLRIG

17.15.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.15.2 Running flrig

17.16 XyGrib

17.16.1 Installation of XyGrib on Raspberry Pi 5

17.16.2 Running XyGrib

17.17 FreeDV

17.17.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.17.2 Running FreeDV

17.18 Qtel (EchoLink)

17.18.1 Qtel installation on Raspberry Pi

17.18.2 Running the program

17.18.3 Using EchoLink on smart phones

17.19 XDX (DX-Cluster)

17.19.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.19.2 Running the program

17.20 WSJT-X

17.20.1 Installation on Raspberry Pi 5

17.20.2 Running the program

Index.

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ISBN:

9783895766138

3895766135