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A couple of weeks back I got a Raspberry Pi setup with TAPR’s QRPi low pass/band pass filter board, running WsprryPi, providing a low-cost, low power, WSPR transmitter. For my first attempt everything was hooked together temporarily. I wanted to see if I could get the Pi and a USB battery pack packaged in a …
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Here’s a collection of Amateur Radio and other general radio related possible uses and ideas for using a Raspberry Pi. Some of these ideas could be used in connection with each other, or just solo. This list is a collection of ideas for the basis of an upcoming presentation; more on that later. Right now, …
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Just followed the steps in the tutorial to get the modified kernel installed with support for Adafruit’s PiTFT and it all worked great. What I’m going to be using it for is to monitor status output from Direwolf as it receives/sends packets, so will be running it in text mode, and ideally I want to …
For some reason I find connecting any dial-up modem era computer or earlier to the internet rather interesting. Not because a computer this old would make a great device to use to surf the net, because of course it doesn’t. It’s a terrible user experience. This article therefore over at Ars Technica caught my attention, …
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