The TH-D74 has CAT?
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 15:42 Dmitry Mizin via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
Also installed Gpredict for Buster. Went beyond just opening it up - this RPi is at heart of my portable setup - using it with TH-D74A for downlink and IC-706MKIIG for uplink controlled with Gpredict, Hamlib and via USB. At some point i also did the build of the most recent Gpredict (there were couple additions to the program not yet in the deb file) - once all prerequisites were installed, built out went without any issues.
Just for those curious - TH-D74 required me to build Hamlib from source on RPi as the one in the repository did not have support for this radio.
Gpredict is great program and in some way I like it even more than SatPC32. The only feature it is missing is fine adjustments for VFO on the radio. But I figured out how to work it.
Dmitry, N6DNM
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 7:48 AM Burns Fisher via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
Gpredict is very easy to install on a Raspberry Pi. I did so on the "Buster" version of Raspbian. There is a .deb file to download and it
just
installs and runs. Disclaimer: I have not tried to use it more than
just
to see that it started up ok and displayed satellites.
73,
Burns WB1FJ
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:49 PM Joseph Armbruster via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
James,
Look into up-board.org, should suite you better than a RPi. It's not cheap but it's not expensive either, considering what you're getting for the size...
73's, Joseph Armbruster
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:12 PM Hans BX2ABT via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
You could install Ubuntu instead of Raspian, I guess. Gpredict is in
the
repositories.
At any rate: GIYF.
Hans
BX2ABT
P.S. I always think it is funny that people want something cheap,
small
and lean like an RPi and still expect something like the whole clunky Windows system with its software to work on it. The RPi was designed with the maker/educator in mind and that almost automatically means using a Linux based distro.
So please, if you want to start tinkering with RPis or other single board computers (SBCs) then start changing your thinking and that
means
no more Windows. If you don't want to change, then don't consider low cost SBCs an option.
On 2/14/20 2:52 AM, Paul Stoetzer via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I answered you when you asked this on January 29th, but will
provide
more
detail as to why this isn't possible without quite a bit of effort.
The Raspberry Pi uses an ARM-based processor, generally running
some
distribution of Linux. SatPC32 is written for computers using
x86-based
processors running Windows. There is a possibility you could get it running, slowly, with a lot of effort through use of x86 emulation
and
the
Wine compatibility layer, but it would require quite a bit of
rather
advanced work.
Gpredict is the software you want to use for satellite tracking and
it
works great on the Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately it's not in the
Raspbian
repository, so it does require some work to get it installed.
Without
knowing what operating system or what version of the Raspberry Pi
you
are
using, I can't direct you to the proper guide.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 1:37 PM James Brown via AMSAT-BB <
wrote:
Is anyone running sat 32 on a raspberry computer? If so how
would I
set
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