Jerry, For an intro book I'm writing on the BBB (imminent pub date), I've worked up some tutorials using an SDR dongle, and have been pretty successful with the following:
1. *Dump1090* - Plane tracking 2. *GPredict* - Sat tracking with this venerable package. On this one, I've been really interested in what the team at SatNogs (https://satnogs.org/) have been doing in creating a worldwide tracking network. Their basic assumption is that operators will be using low-cost dongles. FWIW, they're doing hardware (antennna and rotor and controllers) + software (either GPredict or a custom, open source build of theirs using Django/Python). 3. *KD0CQ's image* - huge time-saving Ubuntu image from this blogger, which contains a medley of SDR packages and their libraries. Available here: http://www.kd0cq.com/2014/08/packed-full-beaglebone-black-img-file-rtl-sdr-gnuradio-gqrx-lots-more-on-ubuntu-14-04/. For all the above, I've got WIP drafts (mostly finished), and could send abbreviated steps in a day or two if that'd be useful to you. I haven't, yet, had a chance to set aside a dedicated BBB as a long term, tracking device, so I can't say for sure how it would perform over time. Seems promising, though, and worth the effort. Charles Hamilton On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 8:52:56 AM UTC-4, jdawgaz wrote: > > I am thinking about putting SDR on a single board computer. > > I have tried the RPi 2, and it just doesn't have the oomph to run a > waterfall program (like gqrx or some other SDR program) on it. > > Does the beaglebone black have the oomph to do that. I want something that > will run it all. Not having to stream to the internet and pick it up on a > desktop. > > Has anybody done this reasonable well on the BBB? > > Jerry > > -- > Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ > Registered Linux User: 275424 > Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer > > > *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new > discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov > > *I* > *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you > teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- > Anonymous > > > *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really > excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
