On Πεμ, 2016-02-04 at 10:57 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > On 04/02/16 01:26, A. Maitland Bottoms wrote: > > Daniel Pocock writes: > > > > > > I was looking at > > > http://blends.debian.org/hamradio/tasks/sdr > > > > > > and it lists a whole range of SDR related packages > > > > > > Is there any wiki about SDR on Debian? > > > > I do not know. But I really could contibute to one if I knew about it. > > > I started one here: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SoftwareDefinedRadio > > and linked to it from the DebianHams page > > > > > > > Out of all the packages listed: > > > > > > - do any provide a ready-to-run receiver, or do they all require the use > > > of additional scripts or programming? E.g. GNU Radio requires the user > > > to download one of several available flow graph samples > > > > Receiver: > > `apt install gqrx-sdr` - run /usr/bin/gqrx > > Handles lots of hardware, rtl-sdr, uhd, hackrf, rad1o, airspy, bladerf > > and more... > > > > > > > > - do any provide a ready-to-run transceiver? > > > > yes, if your computer sound card is wired to transceiver audio. > > (Some rigs have USB with audio endpoints.) And some keying/PTT > > circuit.... > > > > `apt install freedv` > > > > `apt install quisk` > > > > quisk needs a config file written in Python. Much of quisk is in Python. > > I am in the process of preparing my next quisk upload to be in the > > Debian Hams package pool, so it won't just rely upon me. > > > > Note: these applications I mention were all released in Jessie, and > > newer and current versions are available in jessie-backports. > > > > > Furthermore, do you envisage it is possible to make a ready-to-run SDR > > > receiver or transciever using a Debian Hamradio Blend live image or if > > > not currently possible, would it be achievable for a GSoC student to > > > fill in some or all of the gaps to make this happen? > > > > I've been quietly working on making this a reality. It's time to make more > > noise. > > > > I'll be at Dayton. > > > I had a brief chat to the GNU Radio people at FOSDEM and they have some > interest in GSoC again this year, so it could be possible to make a > collaborative effort to recruit and mentor one or more students to work > on different aspects of this. They also have a live image based on Ubuntu: > > https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GNURadioLiveDVD > > and that may also provide a useful point of reference. > > Another thing that comes to mind: supporting digital modes like D-Star, Check Digital speech decoder https://github.com/szechyjs/dsd You can pipe rtl_fm output to dsd, or use the gnuradio module of DSD https://github.com/argilo/gr-dsd I also know that GQRX developers have a version of GQRX with DSD it is not released to the public yet in favour of freedv. > System Fusion http://hb9uf.github.io/gr-ysf/ "Insights gained from this work might be used to add YSF support to e.g. DSD" > and DMR in SDR. Do any of the packages currently support > any of that? Has anybody done any analysis of the software stack that > would be required, e.g. are the codecs already available as standalone > library packages? I do not think that any of these programs will ever enter debian repos due to mbelib. > > Regards, > > Daniel > Regards Apostolos, sv1ljj
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