[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Raspberry Pi 5 for portable ops

[Kenneth R. van Wyk]

FYI, I’ve been working at getting my Pi 5 running reliably for portable ops and making solid progress. Happy to share/compare notes with others. I’m still looking for the right case and a portable DC-powered monitor, but I’m close.

With rock solid reliability, I can do Winlink email using VARA HF or VARA FM. Sending and receiving very reliably.

Similarly, I can reliably run fldigi, WSJT-X (or JTDX, which I prefer) for FT8, FT4, etc.

I am working on getting VarAC running reliably as well. Not quite there yet, but close, I think.

Similarly, I do not yet have ARDOP modem reliably running, but I believe I’m close there too.

Goal is to be able to run this for portable ops like POTA. My battery + solar rig is running very well. I gave it another week-long test in OBX last week. Running 2x 100 Watt fold-up panels.

Also on my personal to-do list is to incorporate my Kenwood TH-D75a into all of this, using RadioMail on my iPhone. I have everything ready except the 75, which should ship on March 6th. (Perhaps I can finally check-in on an ARC D-STAR net after it arrives… My Icom 7100 is usually tied up doing winlink wednesday otherwise.)

(BTW, any Kenwood 74/75 owners who want to try RadioMail on iPhone/iPad, but don’t know how to setup an TinyPICO system to translate Bluetooth classic (75) to Bluetooth low energy (iPhone), I’m happy to help. The TinyPICO is cheap and I am happy to help load Georges’s Auberger’s BB.Link code onto it for you.

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
Armata Scientia


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