About this episode

Onno discusses his experiences and challenges with the Bald Yak project and SoapyAudio.

Foundations of Amateur Radio The thing I think I love most about the hobby of amateur radio is the challenges it represents, not in terms of life or emotional ones, though I will admit that there's some of those .. in no small part due to the variety and complexity associated with being human and a member of the community, more in terms of figuring out how stuff works and then how much stuff there is. I was first licensed in 2010 and since then I've attempted to document the experience of being an amateur and discovering just what that might mean. This week has been interesting, if not quite as productive as I was hoping for. I spent a full day working on SoapyAudio, you might recall, it's one of the potential puzzle pieces in my Bald Yak project. I can report that it compiles fine on a Raspberry Pi 2, and when I get a moment I suspect that it will also work just fine on a Pi Zero. When I got to the point of packaging it all up, I spent hours trying to get my head around the Debian packaging system. For reasons I don't understand, nobody appears to have written anything that monitors the standard 'make install' step, save for one project called 'checkinstall' which has some…

People in this episode

Host: Onno

Topics covered

• amateur radio
• SoapyAudio
• Debian packaging
• Raspberry Pi
• hobby challenges

Keywords

• amateur radio
• SoapyAudio
• Debian
• Raspberry Pi
• packaging system

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Debian

Products: SoapyAudio, SoapySDR

Places: Raspberry Pi 2, Pi Zero

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