Fellow Hams and Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts,
I am pleased to announce the release of version 2 of the Raspberry Pi Ham Radio Image I've been working on. It contains extensive amount of pre-compiled, pre-installed ham radio software. (See below for an extensive program listing.)
The image will require a 32GB or larger SD or micro SD card to install. This image uses the default password for "pi" which is "raspberry". Please change it upon first launch, as the SSH server is enabled and this would be a security risk.
One more caveat: This image comes pre-installed to operate as a wireless Hotspot for field operations. If you are using this at home, and don't want to operate as a Hotspot, then open a Terminal on the Pi and type in "KillHotspot" (without the quotes) and hit return. Networking will then operate normally.
If there is too much pushback on this point, I may remove the auto-hotspot capability in a future release of the image.
I have confirmed this image starts up successfully on the Raspberry Pi Model 2 B and Model 4 B. However, some of the applications require more CPU power than the Model 2 or 3 can provide, so YMMV.
You can download it from: either??or
?. Thanks to fellow Hams Dave Bruse and Norm Schklar for hosting the image on their servers.
This is QSL-Ware. If you download and use it, I request you send me a QSL card. (My QRZ page has my current mailing?address.)
Please send me any comments or concerns here so everyone can benefit from the questions and answers.
-Dave Slotter,
Version 2 of Raspberry Pi Ham Radio Image by W3DJS
General Ham Radio Applications
?- Ham Radio Control Libraries
?- graphical user interface to the Ham Radio Control Libraries
?- Radio Programming Software
?- GUI to send APRS messages via JS8Call
?- EchoLink client
?- Slow Scan TV (e.g. "Fax")
?- Satellite prediction
?- Free digital voice vocoder
?- Client for D-Star and DMR
?- by?
?- HF propagation prediction
?- Automatically turn your Pi into a WiFi hotspot when in the field!
?- NOAA weather imaging software
?- an online callsign look up program
?- a world clock and automatic ID for amateur radio operators
?- Receive faxes using your radio and sound card
??-? convers client with sound and ncurses color support
?- A communication tool for D-STAR
?- Packet radio mailbox and utilities
gcb - Utility to calculate long and short path to a location
?- Spectrogram display and QRSS keyer
is a DX-cluster client
- DX Cluster Server
?- Study tool for USA FCC commercial radio license exams.
?- GNU Automatic Identification System receiver
?- Study guide for USA FCC amateur radio (ham radio) license examinations.
?- Qt based shortwave fax
?- tool for visualising captured radio signals
?- Graphical Predict client
?- analyze point-to-point terrestrial RF communication links
?- Calculates distance and azimuth between two Maidenhead locators
Antenna Ham Radio Applications
?- Antenna Visualization Software
?- A GTK Smith Chart Calculator for RF impedance matching
?- Translation of the NEC2 FORTRAN source code to the C language
?- NEC structure and gain pattern viewer
?- software to analyse performance of Yagi-Uda antennas
Digital Mode Ham Radio Applications
?- Weak Signal (FT8, FT4, etc.) by?
?- Graphical mapping companion program for WSJT-X or JTDX
?- Alternate client for Weak Signal (FT8, FT4, etc.)
?- Messaging built on top of FT8 protocol by?
?- Get Grid coordinates using GPS
(FLDigi is in its own section below.)
?- GLONASS satellite system Software Defined Receiver
?- amateur radio PSK31/RTTY program via soundcard
?-?multimon - program to decode radio transmissions
?- digital radio transmission decoder
?- a terminal based ncurses program for psk31
?- a psk program
Software Defined Radio
?- Software Defined Radio receiver
?- Simple demodulation and spectrum display program
?- Software defined radio receiver
?- SDR player
?- Simple software-defined radio
?- Software Defined Radio (SDR)
?-?Soapy SDR plugin for Audio devices
?-?SoapySDR HackRF module
?-?Multi-device support module for SoapySDR
?-?Soapy SDR module for NetSDR protocol
?-?Use any Soapy SDR remotely
?- Soapy SDR module for RTL SDR USB dongle
?- Vendor and platform neutral SDR support library
?- Soapy SDR module for SDRPlay
APRS Applications
?- APRS GUI client / Digipeater / Igate
?- Yet Another APRS Client
?- Software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder
?- digipeater for APRS
?- APRS Digipeater and iGate
?- Sound Card Amateur Packet Radio Modems
FLDigi Application Suite from?
?- Rig Control program which interfaces with fldigi
?-??Communications
?- RigExpert Antenna Analyzer Control Program
?- File transmissions via Amateur Multicast Protocol
?- ARQ data transfer utility for fldigi
?- Telnet client to remote DX Cluster Servers
?- Logbook application which can use same data file as fldigi
?- Editor for ICS 213 Forms
?- Net Control Assistant for Net Activities (Check-In Application)
?- NBEMs post office
?- File encapsulation and compression for transmission over amateur radio
?- Winkeyer (or clone) control program for K1EL Winkeyer series
Logging Applications
?- Ham Radio Logging Application
?- Logging software (written in Python)
?- The Ham Radio Logging program
?- console based ham radio contest logger
?- VHF/UHF/SHF Hamradio contest log version 2
?- basic logging program for ham radio
?- Logging adapter to allow WSJT-X to log to N3FJP
?- GTK+ Logging program for Hamradio Operators
WinLink Applications
?- WinLink for Raspberry Pi (and other platforms)
?support for Pat WinLink
?- Provides graphical representation of ARDOP connections
?- Retrieves local ARDOP sources by?
?support for Pat WinLink
?- a PACTOR? Monitoring Utility for Linux
Morse Code Applications
?- Morse code training program
?- sound characters as Morse code on the soundcard or console speaker?- Text based Morse tutor program
?- Graphical?Morse tutor program
?- morse daemon for the serial or parallel port
?- convert ebooks to Morse MP3s/OGGs
?- GUI for ebook2cw
?- training program about morse-code for aspiring radio hams
?- tool for decoding the morse codes from a PCM WAV file
?- convert file to ASCII morse code
?- High speed Morse telegraphy trainer
?- sends morse code via the sound card or serial card (Needs RTC installed)
?- decode Morse signals to text
?- Receive CW through Soundcard
*** Ham Radio Wallpaper also included in image ***
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