Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Wow ! COSLINUX Blooms Date: 24 Aug 2025 18:46:19 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net cNb+mpBtU5Q9kpFTquXmfQHMty468js+/YIUqpznbA5sxnVn00 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NjY0BAy7V0aRG5J130VqVOnhjbM= sha256:A+MK46pQgL8OQL9XNR4deTEIebaHVzfH9RjQEqQNxTE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72165 On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:53:19 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Now using PIs and such to refine olde-tyme radio tech ... narrow, > amplify ... would be even more interesting. Not sure what that would > LOOK like ... but it WOULD be very interesting. Future comms are gonna > be a little of this, a little of that. https://wraycastle.com/blogs/knowledge-base/raspberry-pi-sdr There is a lot of documentation for using RTL-SDR dongles. GNU Radio isn't the friendliest suite but it's powerful. I've got a dongle but haven't used it with the Pi. It's Linux after all so the docs apply to any Linux box. There is at least one hat for the Pi that offers some advantages over the dongle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2WqhWmjZE I've mostly used it to pick up ADS-B signals to see what's coming and going at the airport. Some of the apps access an online database to look up the identifier. https://www.n6qwradiogenius.us/