Amateur Radio Posts


  • WSJT-X On Raspberry Pi 5
    Overview This post will assist users on building the WSJT-X application on Raspberry Pi 5. Download Source Navigate to https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html and click the link for the Source Code. Unzip the Tar The command to extract. Here is an example using the actual file. From the command line, change into the wsjtx directory and list the…
  • Audio Configuration for Amateur Radio
    Introduction Have a radio and trying to configure the audio on a software application, maybe for digital modes? It can be troublesome and extremely confusing. The vast combinations of hardware and software drivers make this a challenging task. Hopefully this post will help ease the pain of figuring this out and shorten the time to…
  • Build SDR++ on Raspberry Pi 5
    Introduction Here is another post for a promising program to use with the RTL-SDR Blog V4. Like similar posts, I am going to stitch other posts in so that as the software changes, I only have to update in one location. If you are going to be using the RTL-SDR Blog device, start with installing…
  • Build Gqrx on Raspberry Pi 5
    Introduction I have a Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0, 8GB (info from raspi-config) running Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) (info from /etc/os-release). I am going to build Gqrx 2.17.6 as that is the newest release as of this writing. Due to the nature of open source software and how often things change, I am…
  • Build gr-osmosdr on Raspberry Pi 5
    Introduction This package adds libraries for software defined receivers (SDR) in gnuradio. I came across this when trying to get gqrx installed on a Raspberry Pi 5. Building this was fairly straight forward, luckily. The GitHub page had up to date instructions. (ref: https://github.com/Nuand/gr-osmosdr) Building With CMake