Hamradio Raspberry Pi OS for dummies.
We will officially stop the domain radiopi.club on June 16, 2024, and host this project on GitHub.
Thank you for your participation over the past four years. Remember that it was first year of COVID19, Three software engineers, stayed at home, made this Raspberry Pi system image, for amateur radio, our common hobby.
Today, it's been four years since we last updated this project. One reason is due to the fluctuating prices of Raspberry Pi hardware, and another is the developing of Pi OS, with its 32-bit and 64-bit branches, causing some trouble with updates to the Raspberry Pi's general libraries. Raspberry Pi hardware has also step away from its original intention of low-power and low-maintenance.
Of course, the most important reason is that we are too lazy. The hobbies and interests of us have also little changes because of family, work, and life. We are still good friends. So we all thought we should continue not to update this project, keep eyes on the Raspberry Pi, and keep our interest in the original intention. Hopefully, one day the new Raspberry Pi will give us new inspiration.
You are still welcome to communicate with us on Github!
73!
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2024-5-16
---RadioPi is a Ham Radio Raspberry Pi OS image. It's optimized for remote control and field operation. You can flash it into a SD card, and run it on a RPi computer directly.
RadioPi is desgined to
- Control your rig, run FT8, log QSO, and upload to LoTW.
- Control your rig at home, when you take a walk in a park.
- Go to field without your laptop computer.
- Discover QSO by SDR and amateur satellites.
- Rapid Deployment, Plug & Play.
Downloads
Image file: image_2020-08-01-radiopi.zip- Size: 1.26GB
- SHA-256: d949ed21097864aaa6bed4d453d22415e5a25e2479fd835f8398e9dbc0fd6ec4
- https://pan.baidu.com/s/1RdeLioiFB9-eHlj42UE-GA
- ExtractCode：5v9r
- Size: 1.26GB
- SHA-256：d949ed21097864aaa6bed4d453d22415e5a25e2479fd835f8398e9dbc0fd6ec4
Features of RadioPi
- Default user: pi
Password: radiopi599 - Setting Locale to en_US.UTF8. Chinese Language also is supported. fcitx fcitx-googlepinyin input method are installed
- chornyd and gpsd for timing service
- non-ham softwares are removed。the zipped distro IMG is only 1.28GB
- Gnuradio and SDR libs are installed, such as hackrf, gr-osmosdr and so on. it is ready for more fun of SDR testings
- SSH, VNC, Avahi services are enabled for field operation
- A hotspot "radiopi" is installed for field operation
- A 1280x1024@60Hz screen resolution is installed. it's better for iPad's VNC to remote control RadioPi.
Software on RadioPi
- WSJT-X, 2.2.2, The extreme weak-signal communication software
- JTDX, 2.1.0-RC150, More features than WSJT-X
- TQSL, 2.4.3, The ARRL LoTW QSL client
- Xlog, 2.0.14, A light weight logging program
- Fldigi, 4.1.01, Amateur Radio in Digital Modes
- CHIRP, daily20190104, Programming amateur radios, supporting a large number of manufacturers and models, such as Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, Baofeng, TYT and so on.
- QSSTV, 9.2.6, Receiving and transmitting SSTV and HAMDRM(DSSTV)
- GNU Radio Companion, 3.7.13.4, GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios.
- GQRX, 2.11.5, Gqrx is an open source software defined radio receiver (SDR) powered by the GNU Radio and the Qt graphical toolkit.
- CubicSDR, 0.2.5, Cross-platform SDR application
- Direwolf, 1.4, A software "soundcard" modem/TNC and APRS en/decoder
- Gpredict, 2.3-33-gca42d22-1, A real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application
- VNC Server, 6.7.2, To remote control your rig remotely by VNC
- PulseAudio Preferences, 1.1, For simultaneous line-output, and transmit monitoring.
RadioPi User Guide
For more infomation, Please read RadioPi User Guide