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Updated guide to setting up an APRS RX only iGate using a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR dongle and a pre-built image
** image has been updated as of 21/04/2018 to resolve the problems some people had booting their Pi ** This post is an updated version of the original article I wrote in February 2017. It’s using Raspbian Stretch rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, APRS, Data, FM, Raspberry Pi, VHF
Tagged APRS, Direwolf, Gateway, iGate, Raspberry Pi, RPi, RTL-SDR
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My amateur radio station in 1991
I was recently looking through some old photographs and I found some pictures of my old radio shack and aerials from when I still lived at home. These photos would have been taken in the second half of 1991. The … Continue reading
New aerials for VHF/UHF (2m/70cms) and 28MHz (10m)
Over the years I’ve used a few different VHF/UHF aerials here and the one I always found the best was my old Diamond X500. I bought that when I still lived at home with my parents and it moved here with … Continue reading
How to replace the noisy fan in an Icom ID-5100 with a much quieter one
I’m a happy owner of two Icom ID-5100 radios, one is mounted in the car and I use the other one in the shack on low power for working the local repeaters. It doesn’t get much use but I’m monitoring GB3CL … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, Construction, D-STAR, FM, VHF
Tagged D-STAR, Fan, Icom, Icom ID-5100E, Mod, Rig modification, UHF, VHF
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MB7UIV is back
A little history In January 2000 I started running the first licensed APRS Internet gateway in the UK originally with the callsign GB7UIV. Within a week of experiments starting on the 26th January 2000, the gateway was on air and … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, APRS, Data, FM, Raspberry Pi, VHF
Tagged APRS, Gateway, iGate, MB7UIV, Raspberry Pi, RPi, RTL-SDR
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Setting up an APRS RX only iGate using a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR dongle and a pre-built image
After my previous post, it was suggested that an easier way to set up a receive only APRS iGate would be to provide a pre-built image which only needs slight tweaking to go live. That seemed like a good idea to … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, APRS, Data, FM, Raspberry Pi, VHF
Tagged APRS, Direwolf, Gateway, iGate, Raspberry Pi, RPi, RTL-SDR
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A guide to setting up an APRS receive only iGate using a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR dongle
I originally bought a Raspberry Pi back in October 2012 but as I didn’t have a specific purpose in mind for it, I quickly sold it again. A few months ago I decided to play around with a Pi again … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, APRS, Data, FM, Raspberry Pi, VHF
Tagged APRS, Direwolf, Gateway, iGate, Raspberry Pi, RPi, RTL-SDR
56 Comments