There you can find extensive information about QRP operation, amateur radio and the Raspi. I recommend to check out the YouTube pages of KM4ACK and OH8STN. Just take a look at everything and then decide for yourself. Note: The order of enumeration is not an evaluation of what is best for you. Ĥ.) You can buy a ready installed SD card e.g. ģ.) You can use a ready SD card image e.g.

Learn it by doing it.Ģ.) Another excellent alternative is to use a script from KM4ACK to install the most important amateur radio programs on the Raspi most fully automatic. Not everything is always up to date and you may get a more recent version and information from the programmers homepage. You can learn how to install and backup the operating system and various programs on the Raspi. There are 5 ways to set up the Raspi for use in amateur radioġ.) You can use my instructions as listed below. If you want to use a Raspberry for amateur radio, the fastest way is to use the great Build a Pi script from Jason, KM4ACK. General Information (last but not least)ĭue to a lot of work in my company it is currently not possible for me to update this article regularly.Some important Raspberry PI commands and settings.Install VirtualRadar (Display Airplanes).Install ADS-B Receiver with SDRplay RSP’s (SDR).Install CubicSDR with SDRplay RSP’s (SDR).Install Chirp (Programming transceivers).Install VOACAP (Propagation Prediction).Install CQRLOG (Advanced Ham Radio Logbook).Install zyGrib (Weather data visualization).Install GridTracker (Display connections on a map).Install Packet Radio (Hamlib, Direwolf, Xastir, Linpac).

Install Real Time Clock (Additional hardware).

Install GPS Clock (Time sync & Position).First start and basic setup Raspberry pi (Raspi).Try it out, it is worth it and makes fun. All the programs I use work without problems on a PI3, but the performance of the PI4 is much better, but it also gets much hotter and needs more power. I am a big friend of the small Raspberry PI (Raspi) computer which is also very good for amateur radio.

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