[OZAPRS] How to make a raspberry pi satgate for the ISS

[Rodney Mitchell]

Mark, Sorry about young Andrew! Choose your battles...think Sheldon
Cooper... ;)

73 de Rod. :)


> OK, a few points:
>
> - You can't run what you have linked as a script, it has numerous syntax
> errors and will break. It's a guide.
>
> - Why are you compiling the rtl_sdr utils from source (and not even the
> actual mainline repository, which is at [1]), only to over-write it with
> the version in the raspbian repository later on in the 'script'? If the
> aim
> of compiling from source is to obtain the latest bias-tee additions, then
> neither of these will work. If you're going to compile from source,
> compile
> from the mainline repository please. The rtl-sdr package in Raspbian
> Stretch is out of date, and won't be much help either.
>
> - If you follow the rtl-sdr compilation instructions at [2], it uses a
> build flag which makes all the module blacklisting steps further down the
> guide irrelevant.
>
> - You are missing dependencies for direwolf (mainly libasound2-dev). How
> about just linking to the 'official' direwolf install guide at [3], which
> covers installation of direwolf on a Raspberry Pi pretty thoroughly.
>
> - The 'make install-rpi' line for direwolf bombs out on a headless
> Raspbian
> install, as the ~/Desktop directory does not exist. If you mkdir ~/Desktop
> and then run 'make install-rpi' it works.
>
> - I don't know what you're trying to achieve with all the copy/move lines.
> Just edit ~/sdr.conf directly (as the 'pi' user, not as root!!!!!).
>
> - At the end, your script goes and runs direwolf, without information
> about
> how to start it up automatically (which would be useful for an igate!).
> Once again, the official documentation [3] (page 28) has information on
> how
> to set this up, as does [2].
>
> Realistically the existing direwolf APRS+SDR guide [2] contains all the
> instructions needed to set up a SDR iGate. The only difference is the
> receive frequency. Why not just link to that instead?
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
>
> [1] git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git
> [2]
> https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/master/doc/Raspberry-Pi-SDR-IGate.pdf
> [3]
> https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/master/doc/Raspberry-Pi-APRS.pdf
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 10:35 AM, <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>>
>>
>> I have made a script to install and make a raspberry pi satgate for the
>> space station.
>>
>>
>>
>> Raspberry pi, rtl dongle and antenna are required
>>
>>
>>
>> http://tech-software.net/satgate/satgate.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew VK4TEC
>>
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