Lately I’ve been working a lot with Baluns and UnUn’s and Chokes. I always needed a new housing for that. These are ultimately quite pricey and sometimes difficult to obtain. That’s why I spent an evening drawing. And I have drawn a number of variants of Utility boxes. I print …
CI-V Tuning aid for ICOM Radios
Updates 17-04-2024: Firmware v0.2 Almost every HF radio from ICOM has a Tuner connector, you know that white 4-pin connector at the back of your radio. Via this connector you can give a command with a switch so that your radio sends out a nice reduced carrier to safely control …
Signal Splitter box
Due to illness I had to enjoy myself a bit at home with the moments when I felt a bit good. I had small projects that were already finished but still needed to be build into an enclosure. The Signal splitter 1 was one of them projects. I once ordered …
Portable ATV Receiver
A while ago I came up with the idea of building a portable ATV receiver. Important features of this receiver had to be: 1. Large screen with real noise (no fake noise) 2. Of course with built-in battery with builtin charger. 3. PE1ICE MiniATV receiver as base. 4. Switchable bias …
New Symmetrical Antenna system for HF
I’ve been thinking about setting up a symmetrical antenna system for a while now. That is, Ladder line fed dipole. I did a bit of measuring and was able to stretch 2 x 9m of wire. I bought a new piece of 10m 450ohm ladder line a while ago. This …
Add game Wordle to your BPQ (LinBPQ only)
I have written a tutorial on how to install an Application like Wordle for LinBPQ. BPQ Applications (Wordle)
LinBPQ & Direwolf installation
Over the past 2 weeks I have been busy getting the following things done: Transferring a Windows BPQ32 configuration to LinBPQ for the RaspberryPi. Communicating with an AEA PK-88 TNC in KISS mode. Install Direwolf on another RaspberryPi. Communicating with an ICOM IC-7300 (built-in sound card and USB Serial port …
LinBPQ installation for RaspberryPi
This will install LinBPQ for the RaspberryPi Either 32bit or 64bit version of Raspbian can be used for this setup UPDATE & UPGRADE RPI sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y INSTALL NECESSARY SOFTWARE & LIBRARIES sudo apt install git libpcap0.8-dev:armhf libasound2-dev:armhf libz3-4:armhf zlib1g:armhf libminiupnpc17:armhf screen -y …
BPQ – Direwolf
Below you will find how to install and configure LinBPQ & Direwolf on the RaspberryPI First of all you want to flash a fresh copy of Raspian on a SD card. All my RaspberryPI’s run Headless without Desktop enviroment for max performance. I run all software with Raspberry Pi OS …
Install Direwolf RaspberryPi – No Desktop
INSTALL DIREWOLF RASPBERRY PI 64BIT LITE OS BOOKWORM UPDATE & UPGRADE RPI sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y INSTALL NECESSARY SOFTWARE & LIBRARIES sudo apt-get install nano tmux git gcc g++ make cmake libasound2-dev libudev-dev libgps-dev libhamlib-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-core-dev -y CLONE & INSTALL LATEST STABLE VERSION …