I found on Amazon is a board to put on the Pi. It is " MakerFocus Pi 4 Power Expansion Board DockerPi Power Board " 20 W. 5 volts 4 amps. It takes from 9 volts to 16 volts and has a buck convertor to send 5 Volts to the Pi it also has a Safe Shutdown. Plus it has a fan. All this for about $22. Ham radio operators have 12 volts or 13.6 if you want. Just put this on your Pi power it from your 12V supply, it gives your Pi the 5V it needs up to 4 Amps and gives an easy safe shutdown, so you don't mess up your program on the SD card. I am just starting and will be ordering this when I order my Pi.
A couple of other points: 1. As exciting as it is that the Raspberry Pi 4 is super powerful - it tends to be overkill for ham radio. I have a couple of them and the amount of heat they generate is too much. If you’re going to be out in the field, especially during the hot summer months, even with a fan, the RPi 4 is going to overheat. Plus I try to eliminate as many moving parts as possible. Less moving parts = less places for things to break down. 2. With how close together the USB ports are on the Pi, it’s a good idea to get a small USB hub. With the GPS module, soundcard, and other accessories you may want to connect, you’ll constantly have to make trade offs in terms of what you connect at any given point. There’s no reason to have to choose. The USB standards allow for connecting hundreds of devices simultaneously. Don’t choose. Get a hub and use all of them! :-) It doesn’t need to be anything fancy but getting one that’s powered is something I strongly recommend. Now that you taught me about the “buck”, I’m going to try to figure out a way to use it to power the USB hub in addition to the RPi so I can run both of them off 12V power.
@KM4ACK I've found that 1 or more non-spillable deep cycle Scooter chair batteries will last a Long time. I'm referring to the ones like in the Hoveround chairs. Since I have several power/scooter chairs I do have plenty of batteries available. The one I like best, you may have seen at HamCation 2022 in Orlando. I was there. It has a 1.5' square aluminum box mounted behind the seat. It is great for moving items a bit heavy to carry plus you can put a lot of things in the carry box on the back. I'd fill it with things we bought then run them out to my Suburban and offload then go back. The box on it no longer has the MARS decals on it. Needless to say I can tap right onto the 2 batteries that run the scooter chair plus carry an extra 1 or 2 in the box. I do have the same Buck modules you show here plus I put small 12V to 120V 150W inverter on it that has 2 USB charging ports I can use. Just thought I'd pass that on when you mentioned the part of the battery power. I'll send you some pictures of it when I get it finished. It will have to warm up quite a bit and stop storming before I get out and work on that project. 73's KV4ATV
Great recommendations as always! One thing that’s not so obvious about the iPad is that, starting with iOS 13.0, the operating system for the iPad is now called iPadOS. iPadOS of course supports a keyboard, but also now supports a Bluetooth mouse! So you can pair a keyboard and mouse with your iPad/iPad Mini, then use VNC to connect to the Pi. It works amazingly well! Android has included keyboard and mouse support for a long time, so it’s nothing new there. I didn’t realize you could use a mouse with Android until I just decided to try it with a Samsung Galaxy Tab-A and it just worked!
KM4ACK yeah probably not in that case. But for those that are using more modern iPads, it’s a great solution. I’ve started to use Android more for ham radio because there are apps it supports that iOS does not (APRSdroid, Heavens Above, and more). Plus Android tablets tend to be a lot less expensive than iPads are. There are some great ruggedized Android tablets on the market as well but you will pay a premium for the ruggedized models. Otherwise you can get a lower end Android tablet and a really solid case for less than $250 - probably for less than $200 at this point.
I converted an Acer chrome book to Gallium OS and run all software from there, saves having more wires, batteries especially out in the field it simplifies things a lot.
Great video. I love the KISS approach. It's so easy to start out small when going portable and end up with more accessories than radio by the time you are done! I'm realizing this as I'm packing for Christmas vacation :). Merry Christmas to you and yours. 73 de KF7VUT
Been subscribed for a little while, but not had time to check you out properly! wish i had done it sooner. As a new ham in the UK, I find the US info very handy as you are usually a little ahead of us! Am going to have a look at the Pi, and compare to Arduino which I have and am playing with. Great channel, keep 'em coming! Jim M7BXT
I think a hot spot is generally a device, or hardware/software combo that allows you to connect a remote device(s) to the hot spot and to a network, usually the Internet. Are you using remote desktop, like VNC? If that's the case then you're just doing remote gui access. I'd look at a simple video display and use the hdmi connector. You already have a bluetooth keyboard, just use that to connect to the Raspberry Pi or better yet a wired keyboard that won't need to be charged and will draw minimal power from the Pi.
Lots of good info even for us experienced guys .... thanks .... actually I should say there is LOTS of good info in all your videos especially your command line to fix Pi dependencies during the installation of WSJT-X . I use a number of RPi model 3b+ for 3d printing, astronomy cameras, SDRPlay and the 6 meter FT8 & WSPR station and have not had a performance problem so far. Some are cooled, others are not. I think the success is from using high quality SD cards, Samsung is my choice and some are 4 years old. I would like to request a primer on compiling the source code for the latest WSJT-X 2.2.2 on Raspian ...... thanks again.
Very comprehensive Jason. I'm surprised you didn't post the link to answer my question about Piemen and JS8. Now I know. those buck converters look great, I'll have to get some. I guess if you use the very basic USB soundcard,you then have to make the audio interface with 1:1 transformers, etc like I did 30 years ago!
Has anyone found a good case for the Pi4 in the field that supports having a fan AND an RTC? Cases seem to be either tall with no fan or short with a fan (with the fan interfering with the RTC).
I was looking around. there is a load of boards that can be put on the Pi. one runs drives and has 12 volt input to power the Pi. Some other boards have the converter made in them . But the small converter boards is the lowest price way. But if you want to add other things then the low power the small converter boards I have only do 2 amps and that is about what the main Pi board needs. I like the power supply to be much more than what is needed. The failure of the board can carouse higher voltage to the Pi and damage it.
18 if I remember correctly from the board to the GPIO pins. Other side was a bit larger only because I had a bit of wire laying about that already had power poles. 73, de KM4ACK
The best two ways to power the pi are the battery I covered in this video th-cam.com/video/X9pwFgBnokA/w-d-xo.html or the maker focus power board which allows you to run the pi from a 12V source. Link to the power board on my accessories page app.simplenote.com/publish/4W4h4y
Jason, do you think there a significant advantage to the Pi 4 over the Pi 3 for HF soundcard digital modes in a portable setup, and if so, is the extra cost for more memory justified? Tnx! John K0MXL
At this point I can’t say there is a huge advantage buying a pi 4. However, I will only buy pi 4’s going forward and only the 4 gig models unless I have a specific application that I know will only require a pi 3. It will help future proof us going forward. 73, de KM4ACK
Instead of a SD/USB, you can now use a m.3 or SSD hat - it will last longer than the SD card, and have a lot more memory than the USB you could use to download how-to videos and all of Wikipedia.
You probably won't have much luck on 2m/440 with digital modes unless you have an active group in your area already doing this. Most of the action is on HF.
Thank you for the video it is very helpful. I have noticed the usb sd card reader you are recommending is usb 3 and in light of your GPS Woes video do you have a USB 2 card reader you recommend?
Great information and thanks for sharing all the links!! I have a Raspberry Pi3+ that I want to use with my FT-817ND for doing some digital work during POTA activations as well as use it for logging as well! I already have the Signalink for my FT-817ND, plus I also have the USB soundcard for the Pi as well. I do need to get the GPS though for the clock. Juddie - WD8WV
I have an 857d and Sabrent sound card. Can you steer me to a source for the cable you use for that? Keeping in mind that I have an LDG YT-100 tuner plugged into the CAT port on my 857d CAT port. Pi videos are soooooooooo informative. Thank you.
It is a great board but expensive, not the easiest thing to get setup, and a bit overkill for most projects. Advantages are super compact and works great once you get it configured. I want to get it running on a stock image of Buster instead of using their beta images. Maybe I'll have time to play with that in 2020. 73, de KM4ACK
KM4ACK I sort of guessed this would be your response. I can tell you vet things more than most who give recommendations. Makes for quality videos! Thanks for your channel.
Jason, I am a new viewer and new Pi user. Have you run into any ground loop issues? If my Pi and Radio are on the same power source, the noise is horrible and kills digital modes. If I disconnect the power cord to my 817 and use the internal battery, or use a separate battery for the Pi it's all good. The noise is REALLY bad if the Pi is acting as the hotspot/DHCP server and significantly lower if i let my phone be the hotspot the Pi connects to. Looking for any input on this before I re-invent the wheel. All my cables are ferrited...I don't want to use an isolation transformer on the audio cables if I don't have to, and I don't want to carry two separate batteries to the field either. lol
I can't say that I have ever run into this. I am curious though, what type of power are you running to the pi? Standard power cord, buck convertor? What type of soundcard are you using?
@@KM4ACK A type of buck converter to the usb-c on the Pi4 and the Sabrent USB soundcard. Going to wire a different buck converter to the GPIO power pins when I get the parts (and some time).
Drones In SC that’s what I was going to suggest. My buck converters run to the GPIO pins. Using the same sound card on the Pi 4 and having no issues. Let’s us know if moving to the GPIO pins resolves the issue.
hi from the UK I don't know if you have done this already but a video on how you flash your Pi and how you back it up as I am not very technical and am just following your how to set up a Pi series as I want to work FT8 in and out of the shack but do not know how to flash my windows computer onto my Pi or what is needed to be done to back it up 73 Phil 2E0FJQ in the UK
Haven’t done one on how to flash but there is tons of videos on TH-cam. For backing up check out Backup Your Pi The Easy Way th-cam.com/video/hiCpBm0KAvA/w-d-xo.html 73, de KM4ACK
Jason, still amazed you wrote the V2 Script, it has been working flawlessly! I bought the Buck Converter with USB that you suggested, but it does not like my Pi4. It will power my Phone, but the Pi4 doesn't like it and won't boot. I think it is failing to provide enough amps. I bought the 4 pack, so I will try with another one. Any suggestions?
The buck convertors work with a pi 3 but they seem to struggle with the pi 4. This is the one I run with the pi 4 amzn.to/39J1Lu4 I has a great fan (quiet) and buck converter built in. Only downside is the RTC won't work with this board.
@@KM4ACK thanks for your response. I appreciate your approach to any tutorial and explain what you are doing and why. I am currently viewing your play list on setting up a Pi for Digipeater for APRS. I will view this video after that one. Thanks again. All the best, 73 de KI5HXM
@@KM4ACK Hey Jason, I guess I started watching this and didn’t remember. I have been at home recovering from Covid so I will just blame my brain retention on that. Haha. I am doing fine, and am allowed to see people this weekend. Looking forward to it.
I'm a little surprised you use a buck converter. I wired in a tiny buck converter to my truck to run a homemade TNC on my TM-V71A. When I plugged the TNC into the converter, I got so much RFI, my S-meters were maxed out with no transmissions coming in. Have you experienced any noise issues with the buck converters?
That can be an issue with some buck converters. I have had good luck with my purchase. They have not produced any noticeable RFI. This is the board that I am running now with the pi 4. amzn.to/2PADAWK
My suggestion would be to run a UBEC (Universal Battery Eliminating Circuit) instead of a buck converter. A UBEC will operate on a very wide input voltage range. They are cheap and similar in size to a buck converter but are designed for RC aircraft so absolutely NO RFI...because RFI in radio controlled aircraft has a tendency to return them to kit form. The more expensive UBECs are computer programmable to set output voltage. I power all of my Pi's with a UBEC.
Thanks for this video, Jason. I'm just getting to the Pi as a station/field computer and my Pi 4 was delivered yesterday. I was able to get it up and running using the NOOBS card that came with my kit (Canakit). I'm on old linux geek, having grown up in the 90s with Red Hat running on a handful of workstations in my lab at the university. I put those systems together for my graduate students to use and then maintained them to keep them running. The OS was the most stable I have experience with. Those machines would run for months without a reboot, only being rebooted when I updated the kernel. Now I need to get my feet wet with Pi and another version of linux. I'm looking for a basic book on using linux on Pi. If you have a suggestion, I'd appreciate it. This video was really good to help me start the process of assembling support equipment for my first Pi. My intent is to use the Pi as my home station computer and as my field computer. Now to make one more Amazon order with a few things that I have not bought.
I know im randomly asking but does anybody know of a tool to get back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot the password. I appreciate any help you can offer me!
@Brayden Luciano thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm in the hacking process now. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
@Brayden Luciano WTF IT REALLY WORKED! Literally hacked my Instagram account details after about 30 minutes of using the site. Thanks so much you really help me out !
@@KM4ACK This video does it all! th-cam.com/video/A1zmhxcUOxw/w-d-xo.html I got the old (20 yr??) GPS working but it is so-o-o old that the time is bonkers! Lat/long is fine but time is 1903-07-01T23.... I guess the rollover some time ago has affected it. Considering the reason for adding it was to get a time-base ... Looks like the bin for it. 73 de Paul VK2AHB. BTW, I have had more QSOs today on steam-driven SSTV on 20m than I have had on JS8.
Hi Jason i am learning well from your Videos about Lynux
I found on Amazon is a board to put on the Pi. It is " MakerFocus Pi 4 Power Expansion Board DockerPi Power Board " 20 W. 5 volts 4 amps. It takes from 9 volts to 16 volts and has a buck convertor to send 5 Volts to the Pi it also has a Safe Shutdown. Plus it has a fan. All this for about $22. Ham radio operators have 12 volts or 13.6 if you want. Just put this on your Pi power it from your 12V supply, it gives your Pi the 5V it needs up to 4 Amps and gives an easy safe shutdown, so you don't mess up your program on the SD card. I am just starting and will be ordering this when I order my Pi.
A couple of other points:
1. As exciting as it is that the Raspberry Pi 4 is super powerful - it tends to be overkill for ham radio. I have a couple of them and the amount of heat they generate is too much. If you’re going to be out in the field, especially during the hot summer months, even with a fan, the RPi 4 is going to overheat. Plus I try to eliminate as many moving parts as possible. Less moving parts = less places for things to break down.
2. With how close together the USB ports are on the Pi, it’s a good idea to get a small USB hub. With the GPS module, soundcard, and other accessories you may want to connect, you’ll constantly have to make trade offs in terms of what you connect at any given point. There’s no reason to have to choose. The USB standards allow for connecting hundreds of devices simultaneously. Don’t choose. Get a hub and use all of them! :-)
It doesn’t need to be anything fancy but getting one that’s powered is something I strongly recommend. Now that you taught me about the “buck”, I’m going to try to figure out a way to use it to power the USB hub in addition to the RPi so I can run both of them off 12V power.
Thanks for the "FREE Get Started Guide" lots of good information. Great videos!
Thanks for the heads up. I'll take a look.
@KM4ACK I've found that 1 or more non-spillable deep cycle Scooter chair batteries will last a Long time. I'm referring to the ones like in the Hoveround chairs. Since I have several power/scooter chairs I do have plenty of batteries available. The one I like best, you may have seen at HamCation 2022 in Orlando. I was there. It has a 1.5' square aluminum box mounted behind the seat. It is great for moving items a bit heavy to carry plus you can put a lot of things in the carry box on the back. I'd fill it with things we bought then run them out to my Suburban and offload then go back. The box on it no longer has the MARS decals on it. Needless to say I can tap right onto the 2 batteries that run the scooter chair plus carry an extra 1 or 2 in the box. I do have the same Buck modules you show here plus I put small 12V to 120V 150W inverter on it that has 2 USB charging ports I can use. Just thought I'd pass that on when you mentioned the part of the battery power. I'll send you some pictures of it when I get it finished. It will have to warm up quite a bit and stop storming before I get out and work on that project. 73's KV4ATV
I have the PiJuice hat for power. Nice combo and protects against surprise shutdowns when power is lost.
Another excellent choice for powering the pi. 👍 73, de KM4ACK
Very nice informative series Jason ..... thanks a bunch for your hard work in creating this series =)
You provided some very practical information Jason. Great job.
Thanks Anthony! Haven't seen your station on the air much lately. Is it band conditions or are you just super busy this time of year? 73, de KM4ACK
Any chance you can update this with new tech and New links?
Great information, thank you for your video. Fantastic!
Great recommendations as always! One thing that’s not so obvious about the iPad is that, starting with iOS 13.0, the operating system for the iPad is now called iPadOS. iPadOS of course supports a keyboard, but also now supports a Bluetooth mouse! So you can pair a keyboard and mouse with your iPad/iPad Mini, then use VNC to connect to the Pi. It works amazingly well!
Android has included keyboard and mouse support for a long time, so it’s nothing new there. I didn’t realize you could use a mouse with Android until I just decided to try it with a Samsung Galaxy Tab-A and it just worked!
Cool info. Unfortunately my iPad mini is a repurposed Gen 1. Don’t think it will do this cool trick. 73, de KM4ACK
KM4ACK yeah probably not in that case. But for those that are using more modern iPads, it’s a great solution.
I’ve started to use Android more for ham radio because there are apps it supports that iOS does not (APRSdroid, Heavens Above, and more).
Plus Android tablets tend to be a lot less expensive than iPads are. There are some great ruggedized Android tablets on the market as well but you will pay a premium for the ruggedized models. Otherwise you can get a lower end Android tablet and a really solid case for less than $250 - probably for less than $200 at this point.
I converted an Acer chrome book to Gallium OS and run all software from there, saves having more wires, batteries especially out in the field it simplifies things a lot.
Great video. I love the KISS approach. It's so easy to start out small when going portable and end up with more accessories than radio by the time you are done! I'm realizing this as I'm packing for Christmas vacation :). Merry Christmas to you and yours. 73 de KF7VUT
Merry Christmas Tim. Travel safe. 73, de KM4ACK
Been subscribed for a little while, but not had time to check you out properly! wish i had done it sooner. As a new ham in the UK, I find the US info very handy as you are usually a little ahead of us! Am going to have a look at the Pi, and compare to Arduino which I have and am playing with. Great channel, keep 'em coming! Jim M7BXT
I think a hot spot is generally a device, or hardware/software combo that allows you to connect a remote device(s) to the hot spot and to a network, usually the Internet. Are you using remote desktop, like VNC? If that's the case then you're just doing remote gui access. I'd look at a simple video display and use the hdmi connector. You already have a bluetooth keyboard, just use that to connect to the Raspberry Pi or better yet a wired keyboard that won't need to be charged and will draw minimal power from the Pi.
Lots of good info even for us experienced guys .... thanks .... actually I should say there is LOTS of good info in all your videos especially your command line to fix Pi dependencies during the installation of WSJT-X . I use a number of RPi model 3b+ for 3d printing, astronomy cameras, SDRPlay and the 6 meter FT8 & WSPR station and have not had a performance problem so far. Some are cooled, others are not. I think the success is from using high quality SD cards, Samsung is my choice and some are 4 years old. I would like to request a primer on compiling the source code for the latest WSJT-X 2.2.2 on Raspian ...... thanks again.
My pleasure!
Very helpful thank you 🙏😎
congrats Jason
on all your 17k + subscribers if only we could get at least 1000 subscribers we would be happy
Very comprehensive Jason. I'm surprised you didn't post the link to answer my question about Piemen and JS8. Now I know. those buck converters look great, I'll have to get some. I guess if you use the very basic USB soundcard,you then have to make the audio interface with 1:1 transformers, etc like I did 30 years ago!
My apologizes Paul but I don't remember seeing a question about Piemen. Glad you found some useful info in the video though. 73, de KM4ACK
Has anyone found a good case for the Pi4 in the field that supports having a fan AND an RTC? Cases seem to be either tall with no fan or short with a fan (with the fan interfering with the RTC).
I was looking around. there is a load of boards that can be put on the Pi. one runs drives and has 12 volt input to power the Pi. Some other boards have the converter made in them . But the small converter boards is the lowest price way. But if you want to add other things then the low power the small converter boards I have only do 2 amps and that is about what the main Pi board needs. I like the power supply to be much more than what is needed. The failure of the board can carouse higher voltage to the Pi and damage it.
cheers thanks! this is great
Hey, thank you for this video! I purchased the MakerHawk USB buck converters. Which gauge wire did you use to solder to the board? Thx! 73, WB8AM
18 if I remember correctly from the board to the GPIO pins. Other side was a bit larger only because I had a bit of wire laying about that already had power poles. 73, de KM4ACK
Great show!
Using a buck converter or a 2000ah type external cell.phone charger and both still given.me a low voltage message on the pi ????????
The best two ways to power the pi are the battery I covered in this video th-cam.com/video/X9pwFgBnokA/w-d-xo.html or the maker focus power board which allows you to run the pi from a 12V source. Link to the power board on my accessories page app.simplenote.com/publish/4W4h4y
Take a look at the Brydge keyboards. Works great on my iPad mini and pro. One less thing to haul around and acts as a case.
AWESOME! Thanks for the tip. 73, de KM4ACK
Jason, do you think there a significant advantage to the Pi 4 over the Pi 3 for HF soundcard digital modes in a portable setup, and if so, is the extra cost for more memory justified? Tnx! John K0MXL
At this point I can’t say there is a huge advantage buying a pi 4. However, I will only buy pi 4’s going forward and only the 4 gig models unless I have a specific application that I know will only require a pi 3. It will help future proof us going forward. 73, de KM4ACK
Instead of a SD/USB, you can now use a m.3 or SSD hat - it will last longer than the SD card, and have a lot more memory than the USB you could use to download how-to videos and all of Wikipedia.
I went with SSD for my latest build th-cam.com/video/oyV4n5IVFRs/w-d-xo.html
Came looking for accessories but the links no longer work. ☹
Thanks for the heads up. Should have them fixed now.
I have Yaesu FT3DR and BaoFeng BF-F8HP
can you do digital( psk31, js8call, jt8 and others) modes on it? What attachments needed?
You probably won't have much luck on 2m/440 with digital modes unless you have an active group in your area already doing this. Most of the action is on HF.
Thank you for the video it is very helpful. I have noticed the usb sd card reader you are recommending is usb 3 and in light of your GPS Woes video do you have a USB 2 card reader you recommend?
I have reverted back to these and added an SD card amzn.to/33KnDFl Super cheap and get the job done.
Great information and thanks for sharing all the links!! I have a Raspberry Pi3+ that I want to use with my FT-817ND for doing some digital work during POTA activations as well as use it for logging as well! I already have the Signalink for my FT-817ND, plus I also have the USB soundcard for the Pi as well. I do need to get the GPS though for the clock. Juddie - WD8WV
Glad you found it helpful! Sounds like you have a great setup for POTA. 73, de KM4ACK
As of 12/29/2020 the WolphiLink interface was discontinued :/
The digirig is a great alternative digirig.net/ th-cam.com/video/osax76J66DE/w-d-xo.html
I have an 857d and Sabrent sound card. Can you steer me to a source for the cable you use for that? Keeping in mind that I have an LDG YT-100 tuner plugged into the CAT port on my 857d CAT port. Pi videos are soooooooooo informative. Thank you.
Link to cable is on the accessories page of my FAQ - tiny.cc/km4ack-faq
Have you done a video on how to create the Anderson plug to the Buck Converter with USB? What gauge wire? and etc. Thanks!! 73
Not yet but that is an excellent idea. 73, de KM4ACK
@@KM4ACK I have some images of that already
Hello do you sell a Raspberry programmed and all set up ready to go?
Curious why DRAWS hat wasn’t recommended? Are you still experimenting with it and working out the bugs?
It is a great board but expensive, not the easiest thing to get setup, and a bit overkill for most projects. Advantages are super compact and works great once you get it configured. I want to get it running on a stock image of Buster instead of using their beta images. Maybe I'll have time to play with that in 2020. 73, de KM4ACK
KM4ACK I sort of guessed this would be your response. I can tell you vet things more than most who give recommendations. Makes for quality videos! Thanks for your channel.
Jason, I am a new viewer and new Pi user. Have you run into any ground loop issues? If my Pi and Radio are on the same power source, the noise is horrible and kills digital modes. If I disconnect the power cord to my 817 and use the internal battery, or use a separate battery for the Pi it's all good. The noise is REALLY bad if the Pi is acting as the hotspot/DHCP server and significantly lower if i let my phone be the hotspot the Pi connects to. Looking for any input on this before I re-invent the wheel. All my cables are ferrited...I don't want to use an isolation transformer on the audio cables if I don't have to, and I don't want to carry two separate batteries to the field either. lol
I can't say that I have ever run into this. I am curious though, what type of power are you running to the pi? Standard power cord, buck convertor? What type of soundcard are you using?
@@KM4ACK A type of buck converter to the usb-c on the Pi4 and the Sabrent USB soundcard. Going to wire a different buck converter to the GPIO power pins when I get the parts (and some time).
Drones In SC that’s what I was going to suggest. My buck converters run to the GPIO pins. Using the same sound card on the Pi 4 and having no issues. Let’s us know if moving to the GPIO pins resolves the issue.
hi from the UK I don't know if you have done this already but a video on how you flash your Pi and how you back it up as I am not very technical and am just following your how to set up a Pi series as I want to work FT8 in and out of the shack but do not know how to flash my windows computer onto my Pi or what is needed to be done to back it up
73 Phil 2E0FJQ in the UK
Haven’t done one on how to flash but there is tons of videos on TH-cam. For backing up check out Backup Your Pi The Easy Way th-cam.com/video/hiCpBm0KAvA/w-d-xo.html 73, de KM4ACK
Jason, still amazed you wrote the V2 Script, it has been working flawlessly! I bought the Buck Converter with USB that you suggested, but it does not like my Pi4. It will power my Phone, but the Pi4 doesn't like it and won't boot. I think it is failing to provide enough amps. I bought the 4 pack, so I will try with another one. Any suggestions?
The buck convertors work with a pi 3 but they seem to struggle with the pi 4. This is the one I run with the pi 4 amzn.to/39J1Lu4 I has a great fan (quiet) and buck converter built in. Only downside is the RTC won't work with this board.
He will custom make cables for the wolphilink. I had one made for my xiegu g90.
Good to know. Thanks for the info. 73, de KM4ACK
Another great video! I have a question on RF hash. Do you notice the DC - DC buck converters make any RFI or RF hash?
So do, some don't put of RFI. Check out this video th-cam.com/video/6zf7p5yOhZ8/w-d-xo.html
@@KM4ACK thanks for your response. I appreciate your approach to any tutorial and explain what you are doing and why. I am currently viewing your play list on setting up a Pi for Digipeater for APRS. I will view this video after that one. Thanks again. All the best, 73 de KI5HXM
@@KM4ACK Hey Jason, I guess I started watching this and didn’t remember. I have been at home recovering from Covid so I will just blame my brain retention on that. Haha. I am doing fine, and am allowed to see people this weekend. Looking forward to it.
I'm a little surprised you use a buck converter. I wired in a tiny buck converter to my truck to run a homemade TNC on my TM-V71A. When I plugged the TNC into the converter, I got so much RFI, my S-meters were maxed out with no transmissions coming in. Have you experienced any noise issues with the buck converters?
That can be an issue with some buck converters. I have had good luck with my purchase. They have not produced any noticeable RFI. This is the board that I am running now with the pi 4. amzn.to/2PADAWK
My suggestion would be to run a UBEC (Universal Battery Eliminating Circuit) instead of a buck converter. A UBEC will operate on a very wide input voltage range. They are cheap and similar in size to a buck converter but are designed for RC aircraft so absolutely NO RFI...because RFI in radio controlled aircraft has a tendency to return them to kit form. The more expensive UBECs are computer programmable to set output voltage. I power all of my Pi's with a UBEC.
@@wfwtheradioguy3414 Thanks for the info! I'll check those out.
Jason, have you done any comparisons regarding buck converter efficiency? PS Happy Holidays!
No. I haven’t done any comparisons. Merry Christmas! 73, de KM4ACK
Thanks for this video, Jason. I'm just getting to the Pi as a station/field computer and my Pi 4 was delivered yesterday. I was able to get it up and running using the NOOBS card that came with my kit (Canakit).
I'm on old linux geek, having grown up in the 90s with Red Hat running on a handful of workstations in my lab at the university. I put those systems together for my graduate students to use and then maintained them to keep them running. The OS was the most stable I have experience with. Those machines would run for months without a reboot, only being rebooted when I updated the kernel.
Now I need to get my feet wet with Pi and another version of linux. I'm looking for a basic book on using linux on Pi. If you have a suggestion, I'd appreciate it.
This video was really good to help me start the process of assembling support equipment for my first Pi. My intent is to use the Pi as my home station computer and as my field computer. Now to make one more Amazon order with a few things that I have not bought.
I know im randomly asking but does anybody know of a tool to get back into an instagram account?
I somehow forgot the password. I appreciate any help you can offer me!
@Kingsley Lincoln instablaster =)
@Brayden Luciano thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm in the hacking process now.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
@Brayden Luciano WTF IT REALLY WORKED! Literally hacked my Instagram account details after about 30 minutes of using the site.
Thanks so much you really help me out !
@Kingsley Lincoln You are welcome xD
hi, what the link for GPS USB?
amzn.to/2rxKxiz 73, de KM4ACK
I have an old GPS dongle, can I add it to the Pi?
I would certainly give it a try but I can't say what the results might be. I have only tested with the one mentioned in the video. 73, de KM4ACK
@@KM4ACK This video does it all! th-cam.com/video/A1zmhxcUOxw/w-d-xo.html I got the old (20 yr??) GPS working but it is so-o-o old that the time is bonkers! Lat/long is fine but time is 1903-07-01T23.... I guess the rollover some time ago has affected it. Considering the reason for adding it was to get a time-base ... Looks like the bin for it.
73 de
Paul VK2AHB.
BTW, I have had more QSOs today on steam-driven SSTV on 20m than I have had on JS8.
The link for the keyboard is broken.
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up! 73, de KM4ACK
I found that the TNC-X is easier to use than the SignaLink.
Isn't the TNC-X limited to 2m/440? Don't think it will do ARDOP on HF.
@@KM4ACK Probably. But then I'm limited to VHF/UHF at this time. I have a SignaLink, but configuring for VHF/UHF is not as easy as HF.