AG1A Raspberry Pi Farm

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

Just added another RasPi to the Pi Farm I’ve been working on.  With  Burns’ (WB1FJ) debugging help, I got a RasPi FoxTelemetry Station (a.k.a. Fox in a Box) up and running with a RTL-SDR dongle.  Now just waiting for AO-85, 91, or 92 to pop up.  FoxTelem is all set for auto decoding, when the satellites are above the horizon.

Farm now consists of (see pic below):

• RasPi_FoxTelem = RasPi3B+, RTL-SDR, FoxTelem SW
• RasPi_WxSat = RasPi3, NooElec SDR, WxtoImg SW
• RasPi_APRS-TNC = Running APRS on RasPi2, BaoFeng VHF/UHF for now, Xaster SW
• All RasPi’s are headless and remote log-in capable via VNC
• FoxTelem and WxSat are hooked up to QH Antenna via splitter.
• TNC/APRS is just on a low 2m vertical dipole that I need to raise up.
• The WxSat station auto-tweets to @RasPi_WxSat and auto-sends images to a WB1GOF maillist.

I found a nice kitchen cabinet panel front to mount everything to and hang in the garage wall to free up my workbench.  Working on that next.

Raspberry Pi Farm:

Quadrifilar Helical Antenna I built from QST plans (May 2018):

A recent HC Florence image:

 

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