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LHS Episode #118: Making Flippy Floppy, Sol Style
November 27th, 2013 | 
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Hello, friends! Episode #118 of Linux in the Ham Shack is ready for your immediate consumption. Lots of ham radio and Linux related news in this episode, including discussion of Ham Radio Now, the sun's magnetosphere, digital contacts on 28MHz, Linux Mint, Linux news aggregation sites and more. Sit back in your easy chair, put on your headphones, and enjoy a sweet slice of podcast nirvana. Until next time...
73 de The LHS Guys
DVAP + Pi
I’ve owned my Raspberry Pi for a while now. I purchased it around the time they were first introduced (early 2012). Not having a lot of knowledge in the Linux OS, the most I ever really did with it was set it up and play around with it. However, my reason for purchasing the RPI was to some how use it for amateur radio purposes.
As I have mentioned before on my blog, I also own a D-STAR Digital Access Point Dongle (DVAP). I purchased it in 2011 and had been using it connected to an older Windows XP machine. I wrote a “first look” post as well as one where I was experimenting on the DVAP range away from my QTH. However, in following my own advice given in my podcast, The Practical Amateur Radio Podcast episode 64 about the Microsoft Windows XP End of Life, I decided it was time to explore how the DVAP might be used with the Raspberry Pi.
In most situations, Google truly is your friend. Just doing a simple Google search for DVAP and Raspberry Pi led me to more information than I had time to read. However, the very first search result happened to provide all the information I needed to setup my Raspberry Pi to work with my DVAP dongle. Special thanks to Bill, AB4BJ who had blogged about his experience in setting up his Pi for DVAP purposes.
If you have a Raspberry Pi, a DVAP Dongle and a D-STAR radio sitting around your ham shack, it’s very easy to set it all up just as I have done. In the below picture, I have my ICOM ID92-AD, the DVAP Dongle and the Raspberry Pi setup. Once configured, the Raspberry Pi will function stand-alone (without keyboard, mouse and monitor). I can access the RPI via VNC from my iPad if needed.
Raspberry Pi running Debian Linux and the DVAPNODE and IRCDDB software. DVAP is connected to REF001A in Aurora, Illinois. Screenshot from iPad VNC session.
For now, my setup will remain in my ham shack. I know many build this setup for mobile/portable use. At the present time I do not have wireless capabilities for the RPI. I also want to see just how stable this setup is before making any additional changes. I was pleased to wake up this morning and find the RPI was still running and the OS was stable. Time will tell…
Until next time…
73 de KDØBIK
Show Notes #117
Episode #117 Audio (Listen now!):
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Show Notes #115
Episode #115 Audio (Listen now!):
- News is short this episode due to Pete forgetting papers at work.
- SteamOS: The Linux for games update
- partnership with NVIDIA
- Cast of LowSWR with us tonight
- Russ and Pete’s podcasts:
- Social Media Roundup
- No social media updates due to interview
- Subscribers and Donations
- Adrian L. has been successfully subscribed to lhspodcast
- Harrison renewed (yearly membership)
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- Thank you to our monthly and yearly subscribers and Thank you to all of our listeners, live and quasi-live.
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- No music this episode.
Show Notes #113
Episode #113 Audio (Listen now!):
- New look for the web site
- Linux Professional Institute puts Linux in the classrooms
- Linux turned 22 y.o. this past August 25th.
- Radio Talk 2013 – Ham Radio event reinvents itself
- http://radiotalk2012.wordpress.com/ (yes the 2012 in the url is supposed to be there)
- UK funeral interrupted by RF
- QScope
- twHamQTH 1.3 release
- Next LHS Live our special guests will be Richard & Brady from the LowSWR podcast
- Social Media Roundup
- Twitter
- Steve B – @RigolHam
- Allen G – @VA4AJG
- Facebook
- Daniel F.
- Twitter
- Subscribers and Donations
- Daryl O. – Yearly
- Michael S
Feedback
- E-mail from Serge S. (ON4AA)
Outro
- Thank you to our monthly and yearly subscribers.
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- “Save You” by Circus Underground from the EP Circus Underground, courtesy of Jamendo.
- “Engulfed” by Sonorant from the EP Engulfed, courtesy of Jamendo.
LHS Episode #117: On Point (For Once)
Hello, podcast listeners! It's getting cold outside. Now would be a good time to curl up in your favorite chair with your media player, a warm fire and an episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. As it happens, we have a new one for you right now. Your hosts discuss some newly updated ham radio software for Linux, including a lightweight logging application, CW decoder and VHF propagation modeler. Then they give you an in-depth peek at the distribution known as Point Linux. All of that is followed by feedback and a few announcements that you really should stay tuned for. Please enjoy, and thanks for being a valued member of the Linux in the Ham Shack community.
73 de The LHS Guys
LHS Episode #115: A Mile High and Lovin’ It
Welcome, everyone, to a special installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, we catch up with two fellow podcasters and friends: Rich, KD0RG, and Brady, AC0XR of the Low SWR podcast. During the course of our interview, the guys talk about Field Day, contesting, logging software, Point Linux, HamOS, their recent home activities and much, much more. This episode was a lot of fun, and we think you’ll enjoy the informative and interesting discussion as well. Thanks for tuning in, and thanks for being a listener of the show.
73 de The LHS Guys
