Raspberry Pi HF radio - step by step instructions
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Published 2023-09-07
All you need is a Raspberry Pi 4b, Radioberry and LCD screen (unless you just want to use a PC with SDR software).
Radioberry: amzn.to/484qnfu
LCD screen i used: amzn.to/3EvNeDi
Raspberry Pi: amzn.to/45Hble2
Raspberry 4A Power supply: amzn.to/3sDucrE
10W PA: qrp-labs.com/linear.html
BPF and LP filters: qrp-labs.com
RX/TX switch: QRPkits.com
All Comments (21)
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I have al last sorted it but with the RP4, and it's now up and running with the correct screen size. So, thank you for all your input wit this great project.
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waiting for the next video ! Great job man ! Cheers form Sweden
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Thank you for your detailed description of the installation! It helped me a great deal. For quite some time I considered the radioberry hat I received from China as non functional. The message in the end was "no device found". But it was only due to my choosing the wrong os or other software parts and for the wrong installion procedure.
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Waiting for second part
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Thanks a lot for the step by step ! Looking forward the Tx part :)
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A comprehensive well done into. Thank you
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This looks like a great project. How is it going as far as transmitting? Would it be better to have a faster processor like in the RPi5?
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Thanks for this video, I have been wanting to do this for a long time. Do I have to use the RPI 4B 8gb, I have a 2gb version.
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great video, easy to follow and great explanation. I have 1 question: (1) are you working on the raspberry pi TX video? I was looking through your posted videos and could not find one
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Thank you for your detailed video instructions. I followed them verbatim on my pi 4B with 4MB, installing the (correction here) 64bit Raspberry Pi Bullseye OS, pi user, etc... Everything compiled and ran with no issues. The touchscreen is quite nice and pihpsdr is beautiful. I'm just getting back into amateur radio and didn't even have an antenna for listening, so I bought the cheapest walkie-talkie looking thing with an sma connection but that only pulled in noise across all bands. Once I upgraded the antenna to an MLA 30+ everything started coming in great. I'm listening all the way from broadcast AM to the 10 meter band. You mentioned the CW portion was next, am I correct to think that's where MIDI comes in? As far as a pi 5 is concerned, I can only say that a 4B is more than enough power for this radio project, typically running under a load of less than .4 out of 4.0. Storage is a weakness of the 4B, for sure, but can be addressed with USB. I'm running mine on an sdcard, but may change that. I also use the excellent SDRConsole on my Windows machine to access the radioberry over the network. I have CW Skimmer up and running too, since my code skills are real rusty. This is a great setup and I'm really enjoying the project. Thanks again and, of course, I'm also eagerly anticipating any updates regarding the transmit and code portions of this... 73 -Keith
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Good job dude.
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Well done video, Are!
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Great, showing the rx install. Like to see your tx install still have to do a proper install on mine, mount it in a case. The install script can be edited before running but your way works thats what counts. There more ways to Rome. My radioberry is getting very hot and have to run a fan on it. Its running as rx on a receive loop for now
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Thank you
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Great project. Really impressive noise floor ! -130dB Did I see that right ? What would it take to increase the frequency coverage, at least on receive ? A mixer on the input to downmix signals ?
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I have a pi zero collecting dust that had originally been purposed for DMR, how soon will we see the TX video part you mentioned doing?
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we have done this on armbian and other boards it works fine without name pi
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hi would a Raspberry Pi 3b+ work for this as i all ready have one thanks and great video
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Great video. Can't wait to see the TX part. I am expecting my board tomorrow. How much memory is needed on the RPi, 2,4, or 8GB?
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Is it possible to use x86 (but raspi size) board like UP 4000? It looks more powerful, fast and easy to use with windows or any linux than raspi.