Raspberry Pi Powered Portable Ham Radio Station
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Todays video is about ham radio off grid, deploying a raspberry pi powered portable ham radio station, and gaining more experience deploying solar power for ham radio in the field.-Todays topic is off grid communications and the development of a raspberry pi field computer. in this video we'll take the Portable Ham Radio Station, a Raspberry Pi 3B+, a 10ah LiFePO4 battery, and PowerFilm Solar panel all out to the field for some proper testing. An off grid raspberry pi is an excellent basis for off grid ham radio communications.
During May 18-21, I spent some days near the Arctic Circle, trying to answer a few important questions. Some of those questions were:
Can the Raspberry Pi power a digital Field Station running wsjt-x and fldigi?
Can we fit an entire HF station in an ammo can?
It possible to carry that QRO station along with our hiking gear to the backcountry?
You must remember, we're not talking about casual ham radio (although it very well could be). one of the goals is to find out how practical it truly is to deploy a QRO field station, based on the Yaesu ft-891, and Raspberry Pi 3B+.
This trip certainly wasn't easy, but it was easier than I thought it would be. The trip also validated the concept of a man portable, Rapud a Deployment, QRO Field Station from a utilitarian perspective.
Finally, before some of you start ripping me a new one, if I'm going on a casual thru-hike, carrying all my gear for days or weeks at a time, I'm certainly not going to carry an ammo can based rig. Whatever rig I do carry, it will certainly be powered by Raspberry Pi.
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Julian oh8stn
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Episode notes:
The episode notes are a bit different this time. this time there's actually several different articles going along with this video.
Enjoy the read and images.
Ammo can HF Station: http://oh8stn.org/blog/2018/05/20/por...
Arctic Field Test 18-21 May 2018: https://oh8stn.org/blog/2018/05/19/ar...
Solar power for the station and the Raspberry Pi: https://oh8stn.org/blog/2018/05/15/so...
Embedded computers in amateur radio: https://oh8stn.org/blog/2018/05/10/em...
Ham Radio with a Raspberry Pi: • Ham Radio with a Raspberry Pi
Mentioned in the video:
Raspberry PI 3B+ https://amzn.to/2JbltEP
Yaesu FT-891 https://goo.gl/oupzoB
A few bonus clips from Lapland • A few clips from Lapland
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