This is something I’ve been considering doing for years and following a recent conversation with a good friend, I looked into it again and found this guide which was posted back in July 2023. In my box of stuff, I found I had a couple of GPS modules, one Adafruit and one of exactly the […]
Category: Raspberry Pi
How to set up a HamClock for your shack
Note: this entire process was tested and re-validated on the 19th April 2025 using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.17. I appreciate that the last post here was about the HamClock and I said I wouldn’t be providing a guide to building one but I’ve been […]
HamClock
For some years I’d been aware of HamClock and around April last year I decided to investigate further and built one using an old Raspberry Pi 3B that I had spare.If you’ve never heard of HamClock, it’s described on the authors page thus: “HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides real time space weather, radio […]
How to build a shack clock using a Raspberry Pi and a 7″ Touch Display.
Why you might want to try using my DX Cluster
MMDVM Hotspot and the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
A short while ago, the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W was announced. The original Pi Zero and the Zero W are widely used in MMDVM based hotspots and the new Zero 2 W is a direct, drop in replacement. The most obvious question is whether you need to replace your Pi Zero with a […]
I’ve got a new weather station
How to update and upgrade your Pi-Star based hotspot
There are a couple of methods of updating a Pi-Star based MMDVM hotspot, one upgrades Pi-Star itself and the other method does a full operating system update as well as Pi-Star. The Pi itself automatically runs a process overnight that updates the host file and various other things but this is how to do a […]