[K3PZN-List] Raspberry Pi Gathering for FLdigi Support

Wed Jan 13 16:16:54 EST 2016

Kyle, Steve, Pete and all CCARC, 

Without getting bogged down in a new Special Interest Group (SIG) 
that "goes on ad nauseam" I suggest an "ad hoc" approach to get all 
parties up and running with a working Raspberry Pi (regardless of 
version) with at least the Raspian ("Jessie" version, or v4.1 if you 
prefer numbers) on it.  And then take it a few steps from there in 
the future and meet only when group help is needed.  We'll figure 
it out along the way.  Any how, ... 

So, we will meet this Saturday morning in Eldersburg NEAR the Public 
Library, and then again before and after the next CCARC general club 
membership meeting on Monday, February 8.  Okay?  At the next 
CCARC meeting in February we will decide if and when we will have 
Another splinter meeting, say, in Finksburg or Westminster or in 
KH6-land.  (That's Hawaii, a silly joke for DXers, folks!)  

NOTE: See the Reference Message links below (and others) to catch 
up to us and our original plans and purposes if needed.  

NEXT AGENDA
Our next agenda is simple and two-fold.  FIRST, to make sure everyone 
has a Raspberry Pi that boots properly and displays the Raspian desktop 
with all the goodies under the Menu button, such as the LibreOffice 
package, software library link/window, Python and Java programming 
language utilities, the Command line prompt, etc. and perhaps even 
the "GPredict" satellite tracking program that several of us added after 
this last Monday's club meeting.  SECOND, we will all attempt to find 
FLdigi (the famous radio messaging system that the ham radio 
Emergency Communications folks and others have adopted as a 
defacto standard) and install it and configure it BEFORE we meet.  

This is our "homework" -- and the key word is "attempt."  Give it a try 
for at least an hour or so before Saturday.  

For EXTRA CREDIT if you have the time and means, you can ponder 
how you might interface the FLdigi software on your Ras-Pi hardware 
to a transceiver (identify a make and model) of your choice.  

So, when we meet, whether you were successful in your homework 
or NOT, bring what you need help on, if anything.  And then plan on 
discussing what you learned so far and helping others get to the 
same point in this exercise.  

THIS SATURDAY'S GATHERING (January 16)
No earlier than 9:00 AM EST at the Panera Bread restaurant in the 
strip mall on Georgetown Blvd & Liberty Road (MD 26), less than a 
mile West of the cluster of businesses: the McDonald's, Radio Shack, 
Denny's and new WalMart stores and the Eldersburg Public Library.  
Go west of those shops!  FYI, the Panera Bread opens at 6:30 AM.  
We do not need to sit all together in one section.  We can drift 
around like bumble bees and flowers.  There are a number of 
electrical outlets on the outer walls scattered around different 
tables but not all.  Please buy something to eat and drink.  Free 
WiFi is the norm.  I think I measured the speeds before to be the 
IEEE 802.11n type, so that should be good for your Pi and other 
devices.  Let's hope it works out for us!   ...  We are good at 
winging it, eh?    

Now, go attempt the homework as best you can.  

HPE TO C U THERE.  

Cheers, 

Pat 
N8PK-FM19

REFERENCE MESSAGES (See third one as "main" announcement)
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/k3pzn-list/
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/k3pzn-list/2016-January/006961.html
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/k3pzn-list/2015-December/006956.html

TO INSTALL GPREDICT SOFTWARE
Type this line at the terminal window when you have Internet: 
  sudo apt-get install gpredict
The Pi will then download and install the GPredict software for you 
and return to the same command prompt once it has finished.  To 
start the software up, from the same terminal window, simply type: 
  gpredict  [and hit the Enter key].   For more help you can go to 
http://g4vxe.blogspot.de/2013/11/using-raspberry-pi-and-gpredict.html

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Software 
and http://www.RaspberryPi.org

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 9:57 PM
Subject: Raspberry Pi Gathering

Hi Pat;

Is there going to be a special Raspberry Pi gathering?  I'm interested.

73; Steve, N3SB

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Thornton [mailto:kyle.3599 at outlook.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 9:16 PM
To: k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [K3PZN-List] Raspberry Pi Interest

 Hello All,

I hope I'm aloud to post here but before I start something I would like to introduce myself I'm Kyle KC3FMP I've been a member of the club since September of 2015 but have not been able to make the meetings until starting last night 1/11/15. At the meeting I saw a lot of raspberry pi "stuff" and it made me remember when I was interested in the raspberry pi. To make this short I dug mine out and ordered a new wireless keyboard and mouse but I was also wondering what can I make "Ham Related" on a cheaper budget. Id like to get back into the raspberry pi hobby but I don't know that much programming etc. I'd like to learn more about it and things I can do with it and the programming behind it. I saw that there was a raspberry pi group gathering but I'm not completely sure if that is what I'm looking for. If anyone would like to get in touch with my I monitor the following frequencies: 145.410 and 146.430 or you can email me at kc3fmp at gmail.com or kyle.3599 at outlook.com 

Thanks

73

KC3FMP