Starting to prepare my kit... :)

These antennas will work hand held style, 40m to 6m bands are covered




Must not forget the high performance end fed and the first aid kit...

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Decathlon... fishing line winder :D

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Now remove the ugly foil from the display and it's perfect ;)

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On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 01:34 PM, CT2FZI wrote:

Starting to prepare my kit... :)

These antennas will work hand held style, 40m to 6m bands are covered




Must not forget the high performance end fed and the first aid kit...

?As a neophyte, I have no clue where to get/purchase the antennas pictured in your post. Can you, or anyone else, point me in the direction needed to get some antennas?

Thank you!--
Tim Tyler
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AT hfkits.com or qrpguys.com, or better make your own. I have a MFJ1899t, and others, finally ended up using a simple inverted v dipole with the center raised with an "al Coup" fishing rod or an EF from hfkits, ease of use and good performance.

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I'm curious about the actual potential to run "any" Linux program. I read somewhere that it isn't a full Linux system, but rather Busybox, which is a monolithic compiled package of Linux utilities which is often embedded in devices like routers etc. Is this correct? Can anyone clarify whether the 6100 contains a full Linux kernel and all the libraries necessary to run arbitrary Linux apps in the way an r.pi can? Or would you need to modify the app and rebuild it as part of Busybox?

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The X6100 runs a "full" linux operating system. Busybox is a way to save some disk space by having a single executable change the way it runs based on the command line name used to call it, but it just substitutes for a bunch of command line utilities. Even busybox needs the linux kernel and such.

It can run arbitrary linux apps with the limitation that we do not have the source code or build environment for their build of the firmware, so if any kernel options are disabled or any shared libraries are not installed, then you're going to have to cross-compile for the ARM architecture and kernel source that the radio runs. But that's not specific to the radio - that's just embedded linux in general.

There is a full, from-scratch way to build a linux distro with just the parts you need, called "buildroot" and one user has created a barebones buildroot configuration that boots on the X6100:?t
A couple of users reverse-engineered a display driver for the LCD, as that was the only hardware component that doesn't have an open source driver in the mainline Linux kernel already.

There's also a distro of Arm linux called "Armbian" and another user has build Armbian for the X6100 (), but had to copy over the kernel and bootloader from the original firmware to get it to work. But this build is a more full-featured linux with a display manager and pre-installed apps, etc. This already has WSJT-X and fldigi installed on it, and you *can* run those things RIGHT ON THE RADIO! But you have to connect the two USB-C ports, as there is some funky audio routing that hasn't been figured out yet.

And you've by now seen the early release of the new UI/firmware - this work is based on the buildroot framework, and then he's writing the GUI on top of that as a regular linux app.

There are two options. 1) using the buildroot of the required version, build almost any software that you need specifically for the standard system image. But here it is impossible to build a kernel or drivers for it - because the sources are closed. And here comes option 2) Completely assemble your system. With its own kernel, all drivers and rootfs. This is already possible and is being done.?This is the way I make my entire firmware

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 12:45 AM, Lance KJ5O wrote:

But you have to connect the two USB-C ports, as there is some funky audio routing that hasn't been figured out yet.

With sound, everything is just clear.

Yes, I was meaning only for the Armbian image by Links2004.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 01:11 AM, <saul.stjohn@...> wrote:

Technically incorrect: Xiegu is obligated under the terms of the GPL to release source. That they do not is illegal, and violates the copyright of every Linux kernel developer.

Of course! There are quite a few license violations in this product. Not only the kernel breaks it. For example, the application uses Alsa, FFTW and many other libraries with the LGPL.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 04:04 AM, ve3ega wrote:

If you take a look at the "Quadra" (Inovato.com) this will give you an idea as to what's under the X6100 hood - basically its a RPi3!

This is not true! RPi3 uses Broadcom BCM2837 and X6100 uses Allwinner R16. Of course, these are two ARM processors, but the similarity ends there (;