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I am a retired software engineer and a relatively new ham (07 May 2019 Tech, 26Oct2020 General). I am very interested in SDR technology. I have an RTL-SDR dongle and Airspy HF+ Discovery. I use SDR# on Windows and gqrx on Linux.
My homebrew project is a broadcast FM receiver using Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (Linux) OS and gqrx/GNUradio with a touchscreen that will decode RDS (station text) and NRSC5 (digital HD programs). After a week of heavy flailing, I can compile gqrx from the source. Next up is to compile GNUradio from the source. I have found NRSC5 command-line program that decodes the digital streams; I can compile that source.
The radio in my 2016 Ford Transit Connect uses one button to tune RF and another button to select HD channel. I would like a portable contraption to do the same. I graduated from high school in 1966, so I enjoy rock and roll songs. Local PBS radio station is 89.9 WJCT – HD1 is analog broadcast, HD2 is 24 hr classical, and HD3 is 24 hr “Best songs of the 60s, 70s, and 80s”. RDS shows song title and artist; I can buy from iTunes to add to my library if I like the song.
Please provide book titles, article titles, youtube videos, online courses, etc that you feel would assist my learning/understanding.
If anyone knows of a commercial alternative that does RDS/NRSC5, I would also welcome that information.
This project should keep me insulated from the dreaded “honey-do” list for a bit.
Thank you.
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