They Raspberry Pi may be fine. Or it might be not. Because it's an extremely limited device.
For example: doesn't have an Audio- (Mic/Line) input. So you need an USB dongle for it if you want to do any data mode stuff (e.g. with FLDIGI). Doesn't have an RTC clock, so always starts at 1st January 1970 on every boot. Broadcom, the manufacturer of the CPU/SoC combo, is a kind-of-secretive company. They often don't provide chip documentation. For more than 7 years the Broadcom WIFI-Chips in the Linux WLAN stack have been inferior to, say, Intel or Atheros chips. And yeay, the do that again: you don't get a full datasheet for the BCM2835 that is used in the Raspberry PI. If you really want the docs, you need to sign an NDA with Broadcom. But they are snoop: you need to provide a business model and declare how many chips you will buy from them. Compare with with TI, for the TI OMAP, where you almost get everything, downloadable from their Website without registration or NDA. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
