My Pi Journey, the next generation
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:56 pm
Hi,
well it is time for a new PI here as I always felt the PI 3B was a little slow doing decodes on the FT8 mode of WSJT-X and now with FT4 around, I felt I needed more horsepower to get the job done.
Went ahead with the purchase of a Raspberry PI 4 from the same supplier as before (Little Bird Computers) but this time I have opted for the active cooling heat sink option as the temp's in my shack get quite nasty in summer (part of an industrial shed used for our horse stables), have just plugged it in and am writing this part on the PI as it is doing an upgrade in the background.
The case / cooling is https://www.littlebird.com.au/products/ ... berry-pi-4
Could not help my self, have already downloaded the WSJT-X package from here: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html and once downloaded went ahead and run the .deb (https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1 ... _armhf.deb) file from within the browser. Smooth as can be, just one prompt for priveleges and away it went. Now it did put the shortcut into an odd place in the menu (Sound & Video) but you can right click on it and select Add to Desktop which I did.
Okay, so much to do with the Raspberry 4, I am sure time will get away from me, I know a few readers had terrible problems coming to grips with the PI but I find them so much fun for what they can do.
More soon.
well it is time for a new PI here as I always felt the PI 3B was a little slow doing decodes on the FT8 mode of WSJT-X and now with FT4 around, I felt I needed more horsepower to get the job done.
Went ahead with the purchase of a Raspberry PI 4 from the same supplier as before (Little Bird Computers) but this time I have opted for the active cooling heat sink option as the temp's in my shack get quite nasty in summer (part of an industrial shed used for our horse stables), have just plugged it in and am writing this part on the PI as it is doing an upgrade in the background.
The case / cooling is https://www.littlebird.com.au/products/ ... berry-pi-4
Could not help my self, have already downloaded the WSJT-X package from here: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html and once downloaded went ahead and run the .deb (https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1 ... _armhf.deb) file from within the browser. Smooth as can be, just one prompt for priveleges and away it went. Now it did put the shortcut into an odd place in the menu (Sound & Video) but you can right click on it and select Add to Desktop which I did.
Okay, so much to do with the Raspberry 4, I am sure time will get away from me, I know a few readers had terrible problems coming to grips with the PI but I find them so much fun for what they can do.
More soon.