Zach,
Not sure what you think needs doing, there's already a pisdr image available setup for most common SDRs on the market and most of the common software tools see https://pisdr.luigifreitas.me
Think only improvements the image needs perhaps is the Fox decoder added but its pretty much ready to use.
Peter, 2M0SQL
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 19:58, Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
On 05/08/20 13:39, Stephen DeVience via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I like SDRs too, but then you probably need at least a laptop to get enough computing power to do a good job.
This is a bit of a misconception. Single-board computers (SBCs) have now become ridiculously fast:
"The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is approximately equivalent to an Athlon Thunderbird running at 1.1GHz; again, it has the much higher-quality graphics, which come from using the same GPU as previous models. The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is around twice as fast as the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, depending on the benchmarks chosen."
(from https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/faqs/#pi-performance)
The Pi 4 is super fast, but also needs a heatsink...
A display can be had here:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14776
Here's a demo of someone putting it all together:
https://gqrx.dk/blog/pi-sdr-raspberry-pi-3-7-touchscreen-rtl-sdr-gqrx
Here's where we need a volunteer to put this onto a SD card for easy use by those not familiar with Linux, etc.
My plate is full, but I'd be glad to test it out and give feedback.
--- Zach N0ZGO
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