Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

  • Build SDR++ on Raspberry Pi 5

    Introduction Here is another post for a promising program to use with the RTL-SDR Blog V4. Like similar posts, I am going to stitch other posts in so that as the software changes, I only have to update in one location. If you are going to be using the RTL-SDR Blog device, start with installing…

  • Build Gqrx on Raspberry Pi 5

    Introduction I have a Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0, 8GB (info from raspi-config) running Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) (info from /etc/os-release). I am going to build Gqrx 2.17.6 as that is the newest release as of this writing. Due to the nature of open source software and how often things change, I am…

  • Build gr-osmosdr on Raspberry Pi 5

    Introduction This package adds libraries for software defined receivers (SDR) in gnuradio. I came across this when trying to get gqrx installed on a Raspberry Pi 5. Building this was fairly straight forward, luckily. The GitHub page had up to date instructions. (ref: https://github.com/Nuand/gr-osmosdr) Building With CMake

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Aaron Rombaut

Technologist & Writer