The bottom line is. I wish I had the skills to do so but I do not. I agree that the RPi’s output spectrum is horrible, but after proper filtering it should be the same on the TX side like what we got from RTL SDR on receive side. The point is that generating the modulation (AM, FM, SSB, etc) in software is relatively easy, but building a clean wide-band RF synthesizer is extraordinarily difficult. Square waves contain an almost infinite number of odd harmonics (Google it) right across the spectrum. Well done indeed Evariste, Go ahead, have some fun and just make sure you are not screwing up the RF spectrum, ok? Several schools have clubs. This program as it stads seems to generate low close-in spurii at 50MHz but is poor at 145 and 7MHz.. it is all a question of what the internal clocks are required for low jitter etc.. At 50MHz the SSB generated also sounds very natural (less of the robotic-like burbling) i just got down, Thanks for the excellent article! To transmit with the Raspberry Pi all you need to do is plug in a wire antenna to Pin 12 (GPIO 18) on the GPIO port and run the PiTx software by piping in an audio file or image for SSTV. Filtering and bandwidth don’t like each other, though, and could be partially solved by making the rPI output a single frequency high enough to have harmonics easily filtered out, then mixing back that signal with a cleaner variable signal produced, say, by a pll/dds driven by the same board. I want to build a script in my Pi that triggers my remote start, and unlocks my doors in the morning. Stop setting the bar so high, let people fiddle and use some of your HAM knowledge to help them along the way! And $20/$30 extra for the USB dongle, and a few minutes at the command line is something I can afford and welcome. come on, who wants to be the one to not tx were they want to? Nice plots. Would it be possible to use a Tablet to control the Ham radio? To the blog author: I’m surely gonna order your device on the 3rd of January. We can’t stop tech revolution in the RF field, better to live with it and teach people how to use it! Everyone does this with HackRF, BladeRF and similar SDR transceiver stuffs. The setup will not be submitted to the FCC for certification as a GMRS-capable device. Shop today! If you can pipe in the output of an audio or video recording app set to the required converter’s input format, you’ve got QSO capability. No, the RPI alone will not be an acceptable substitute to my fancy all mode, all bands HAM radio set simply because, even if fitted with an a cheap USB SDR receiver dongle, it will start receiving signals at 28 MHz and up. Yes toggle an I/O pin is not new. During a recent boat refit, I recently switched my DF65 over to the Flysky FS-i6 system. ANTISPAM: What does the 'M' in FM and AM radio stand for? Raspberry Pi Internet videos are located at YouTube and Vimeo. Over on YouTube the author of PiTx has also uploaded a video showing a wireless doorbell being replayed with PiTx. The hobby has grown since 2007. Could you make a comparison with NBFM? Could this be used to emulate a car FOB? Exactly. Just set it up and it’ll start transmitting when it gets the I/Q (or other as appropriate) data stream, and stop (go to Rx) when the stream stops. It has shrunk? The predecessor PiFM has been reported to have a range of 10cm without an antenna, so it may be best to not connect an antenna to the pin if just testing. Alternative Transmitter and Receiver – Flysky FS-i6. Needs some further experimentation. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Guys, using a RasPi as a transmitter without any sort of filtering really isn’t a very Ham thing to do. ESP8266 Influxdb Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. If I can get on the air with a homemade rig (my current license class is General), that’s the spirit of ham radio exemplifed. Sounds crazy to see complains here ! Chapeau bas! Also see the authors (@F5OEOEvariste) Twitter account at https://twitter.com/F5OEOEvariste for some more info about PiTX. Ever heard of FCC and CE? Great work. But you still have to keep in mind that all devices share one single port for its maximum speed and power. 100M is way beyond necessary. Hans. The ham ranks are growing, not shrinking. There are also strict laws and licences governing transmitting in most countries so make sure you follow them carefully. especially the ones on 418Mhz that suffer from nearby Commercial transmitters, also those on 432.9Mhz? Learn how your comment data is processed. Over on his blog F4GOH has posted a rather comprehensive tutorial consisting of seven PDF documents showing how he's set up his Raspberry Pi for ham radio and other RF projects. Or you could just jump on ebay and buy a FM transmitter for 5-8$ that plugs directly into whatever audio device you plan on using to play audio (even a Pi!) I think of the mythical beast or the rum. Diversity & beam forming are possible, just needs the software. I should have added that removing the harmonics is relatively easy (it’s just class C or D after all) but the close-in spurii (eg phase noise and intermodulation) cannot be simply filtered out. Scotty Cowling WA2DFI details a new TAPR kit - a little board that turns a Raspberry Pi into a 20-meter WSPR beacon. Once I figure out the means for powering the Pi on-the-run, of which there appear to be several, I would like to use this for simple FM transmission to my single-CD/radio audio system as the speakers and so forth are fairly good. and cue the anal retentive hams who think if you don’t know CW and use modern technology then you aren’t doing anything good for Amateur Radio… Hurry up and go SK so that the rest of us can move on without being trolled about the inadequacies of modern HAMs. However, the usual FPV cameras aren't that good quality, they are made to have low latency and high dynamic range, not good quality. Vores odds eksperter giver de nyeste spilfiduser, så du kan tjene mange penge - Følg med hver dag så du altid har de nyeste spilfiduser og odds forslag. Legally – no. Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) with the LimeSDR and ODR-mmbTools "Using ODR-mmbTools in combination with a low-cost SDR radio like LimeSDR or its smaller counterpart LimeSDR Mini and a small computer such as the Raspberry Pi," engineer Godfrey Laswai explains, "a DAB+ radio station can reach even the most remote areas." I wonder who is trolling here, by calling “inadequacies of modern HAMs” and using terms like “anal retentive”. But this works very well on Raspi2. Makes a Raspberry Pi into a 20 meter weak signal transmitter for propagation reporting. … After looking…. Anyone an idea what I am doing wrong? This will require additional hardware, no doubt. 73. The main problem is most tablets have a single USB interface, so you may be unable to charge your tablet while you have the SDR plugged in. These will cause intolerable interference to adjacent services if allowed to radiate. HRN 277: WSPR and the Raspberry Pi from the 2016 DCC on HamRadioNow. It’s not the square wave (and attendant harmonics) which is the problem. I’ve made a few spectrum analyzer screenshot of the output signal, you can check my screenshots here on my page: http://rfsparkling.com/ham_radio/. Shop with Afterpay on eligible items. That’s very interesting, Zoltan. That being said, the RPI could be used as a beacon in transmitter-hunting games or any other scenarii instead of expensive equivalences. Diversity & beam forming are possible, just needs the software. With a simple wire antenna the range is increased to 100m which could affect your neighbours. Do you really think spectrum is in danger with approx. Take a look at the ITU band plans and your HAM licence. Although popularizing the reception sounds good in general, “popularizing” the transmission is not a good thing for the radio spectrum. How many HAM 70cm repeaters near there. Sie möchten mit einem WLAN Repeater das heimische Netzwerk erweitern. And the Pi works quite well for various functions in a ham shack. The PDF's essentially form a book that starts with the very basics like preparing an OS for the Pi SD Card, powering on the Pi, finding the IP address and connecting to it with SSH or VNC. Unfortunately even if the dev was so inclined, the FCC is quite particular and Part 95 is absurdly draconian. esp8266-google-tts: generate the link to speech mp3 on esp8266/32. Maybe the clock values in the sourcecode have to changed to get it cleaner on the non overclocked 1b model. Unlike PiFM which transmit only in FM, PiTx is able to perform multi modulation (FM,AM,SSB,SSTV,FSQ) : it has an I/Q input to be agnostic. The fact of the matter is, there is nothing particularly innovative or unique about turning a microcontroller’s IO line on and off; if it was a good idea it could have been done well before the RasPi hit the electronics scene. (Required). It was NOT written with tinkerers and builders in mind. I can’t afford an expensive rig, but I have a Raspberry Pi. After all, isn’t ham radio about experimentation and not who has the most expensive rig? And yes, I necro’d long after Dave already made a valid and compelling point to school you already. 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You can get just the camera, which outputs composite video, or get a transmitter as well which can take that composite video and transmit it at 5.2/2.4/1.3GHz. This is a ‘cool’ thing; no its not what the Pi was intended for–but its a result of ‘hacking’ (if one could call it that) or better, experimenting and as such, why not? Also featuring Airspy, HackRF, FCD, SDRplay and more. However, Raspberry is not a microcontroller and it can do more complex compute : have you ever see a microcontroller modulate SSB with any other hardware ? This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Audio file and I2S sound playing routines for ESP8266, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040: esp8266-framework: esp8266 framework stack for easy configurable applications: esp8266-google-home-notifier: Send notifications to Google Home from esp8266/32. Just have enough horsepower to ‘record’, convert to I/Q (or other format as appropriate), and send ‘on-the-fly’ without too much lag. It shrunk a little while but overall is way up. So any transmissions will cause harmonics all across the spectrum – possibly interfering with life critical devices. power using a power adapter into the last hub port so they don’t draw from Rpi. Lets look at some facts Important Disclaimer: While the output power is very small, you should still take great care as the carrier is a square wave, and there is no filtering on the antenna output. The final two PDF tutorials cover the installation and use of OpenWebRX for remote RTL-SDR use, R2Cloud for decoding weather satellites, and finally Radiosonde Auto RX for decoding radiosonde's on weather balloons. Looks like a great experiment and something others can take up and run with so make something realistically usable at low costs. Ask any self respecting amateur who did not get his ticket out of a Kellogg’s Cornflakes packet. As alluded to in other posts here, encouraging RasPi owners to experiment with this sort of thing does more harm than good. This is a slightly more advanced system than the default one which – among other things – lets you monitor battery power in the both transmitter and boat and set the endpoints better. YIKES! The signal on the 1b model is very poor and weak. Hugh F/G6AIG. The numbers of licensed amateur radio operators in North America is increasing – making your entire post worthless reading. Unlike PiFM which transmit only in FM, PiTx is able to perform multi modulation (FM,AM,SSB,SSTV,FSQ) : it has an I/Q input to be agnostic.The demonstration here is done in several steps :– Record an I/Q file from a doorbell transmitter on 434MHZ (first part)– Playing it with the Raspberry Pi using Pitx on HF on same frequency– Listen to the doorbell receiver which recognize the signal. And no, I would not connect RPI GPIO output to any linear RF amplifiers without proper filtering. Previously we posted about the Raspberry Pi’s ability to modulate one of its pins to produce FM transmissions with PiFM. Record button becomes PTT. Da nicht gerade wenige Nutzer mit diesem Problem konfrontiert sind, möchten wir Ihnen mit einigen Lösungsvorschlägen behilflich sein. But then how’d I get the repeater on 146.88? I played with the earlier PE1 FM-type SSB but it was clear this was not going to work. It’s illegal, end of story. Men… This code does analog transmission without any analog chip … I would just request to stop trolling and call us (HAMs) names… thank you for listening, Harmonics can be filtered easily.. in fact ANY Tx requires filtering. In short, opinion on this trick seems divided but wouldn’t be if someone built/wrote filters. Maybe you should get over OJ Man. RTL-SDR (RTL2832U) and software defined radio news and projects. The RTL-SDR can be used as a wide band radio scanner. This is exactly why your community has been slowly dwindling over the last 20 years and its nearly impossible to get a millennial interested in what they perceive as archaic technology.