For your next project, why not combine your passion for software-defined radio with Raspberry Pi? The Elektor Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Kit is a perfect point of departure for SDR and ham shack automation.
Would you like to combine your passion for software-defined radio (SDR) and Raspberry Pi? If so, you're in luck. The Elektor Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Kit offers hardware and a book to get you started as a ham operator with your Raspberry Pi. The included RTl-SDR dongle offers you an affordable entry into the world of software-defined radio. The book, Raspberry Pi for Radio Amateurs, covers the basic opperation of the Raspberry Pi and its use for your ham radio shack. What an excellent pairing!
Inside the Kit
Curious about the harware and book that come with the Elektor Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Kit? Fortunately, Elektor author Tam Hanna covered everything you need to know about the hardware in a recent review. Check out Koen Vervloesem's book review for details about Dogan Ibrahim's book, Raspberry Pi for Radio Amateurs. A licensed radio amateur and Raspberry Pi aficionado, Ibrahim is the perfect author to introduce Raspberry Pi to radio amateurs.
Elektor Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Kit
The kit's content has not changed. The up-to-date book offers a nice introduction to the world of the Raspberry Pi and SDR. The Realtek chip, RTL2832, was used in USB DVB-T receivers. Through reverse engineering, it was found that the raw data of the receiver can be read, and thus you can realize very inexpensive receivers for a frequency range of 42 to 1002 MHz. However, the frequency stability of the DVB-T sticks left more to be desired, so that with the RTL-SDR stick, a temperature-compensated oscillator is used. With this, you can also make first your listening attempts for the QO-100 (Es'hail-2), if a suitable satellite dish and LNB are on hand. Also the transformation into a WebSDR is possible with the kit and a Raspberry Pi. And last but not least, there is Welle.IO software that turns a Raspberry Pi or PC and an RTL-SDR stick into a DAB/DAB+ receiver.
If you are interested in the book and the RTL-SDR receiver, the bundle makes sense. And if you need a Raspberry Pi, take a look at the Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit.
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