Ham Radio - Skywave Linux - preconfigured SDR and streaming software in a live CD
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Thanks Gert for pointing out Skywave. You can download it here:
skywavelinux.com/
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Hi Kevin, and thanks for creating the nice video on Skywave Linux! I'm the developer and sure am happy to see people using it and not having too hard a time getting started.
It has a few rough edges that'll get fixed over time. One of them is that script for Dump1090. Once it gets your inputs, it just races ahead and starts Firefox - even if Dump1090's webserver hasn't finished starting. LOL, I should make it wait and perhaps auto detect the hardware type.
That Websdr script may be different in the next update too. The list is too long, so it should instead come up as a page in Firefox: the live lists linked in large font and those many favorites in a neat table and smaller font.
Well, enough rambling about the future. I hope hams, SWLs, plane spotters, and broadcast news hounds find it useful.
73,
Phil AB9IL.
Skywave Linux
Hi Phil. You might get a few questions now that you've popped up here. It's a nice project, happy to spread the word about it. I'd love to see it default to a different desktop with a real menu rather than unity. Under unity, it's hard to see what all is available if you don't already know what to type in the search bar. Beginners to linux will probably miss most of the goodies that are installed.
Hey Phil, please email me. I have a question for you about your build.
@@loughkb Yeah! My first thought about the different desktops,too. I prefer mate' myself but I know that a lot of people like cinnamon and xfce, too.
@@loughkb I just checked and I guess the newest version uses Mate', now.
Mach 7 Radio Intercepts is it setup to do winlink email?
Good tutorial Kevin,have been with Linux for some 25 years now and still finding stuff I did not know,that is what is so interesting about Linux and combining it with Ham radio is "icing on the cake",keep up the good work,Colin G1PGI
If you are in Indiana type in a Minus sign before the Longitude... -87 is like Indiana....
Awesome Kevin, thx for the shoutout
Well I just downloaded and ran skywave...and as usual it does NOT work with RSP2 from SDRplay. I dont know what it is about this radio..but it is a pain in the u know what to install...It is not listed in the pull down box, withing gqrx, where the Device 'should' be.
Kevin, those SDR Linux apps are terrible compared to the ones on Windows! I just installed HamPi on a Raspberry Pi and it came with CuteSDR, CubicSDR and Gqrx. I couldn't get any of them to work at first. CuteSDR didn't like the first 2 cheap black $6.00 dongles from Ebay that I tried but I finally get it to work pretty well with a more expensive model in a blue metal case called the RTL.SDR R820T2 Tumer with a dolphin on the front that can be tuned down to HF in Windows but I couldn't find any way to do that in CuteSDR so it still only gets VHF in Linux. I could never get the other two to work even with that better dongle however all the dongles work OK with SDRSharp in Windows!
I think I solved your problem with dump1090. If you don't use the plus and minus on the latitude and longitude it will place the United States somewhere in China. I made the alteration and it works fine. The pulse audio problem is in the pulse audio switcher. It will default to HDMI audio, instead of Built In audio.
You may have already figured it out but with 1099 dump, it defaults to China because you didn't put a minus in front of your Longitude. 73 Neil wa4chq
Skywave is worthless! How can you make it boot? I've tried it in Windows and Linux but nothing happens!
Thanks Kevin, I didn't know about Skywave Linux, I'm going to install it tomorrow on one of my machines. If it only supported transmit it would be perfect.
that is a very useful distro. must try with my dongle. thanks for sharing and thanks to the author
The aircraft tracking, is that picking that up from the aircraft or from a other source? Because course almost all aircraft should have transponders that give out that information. Even a Cessna 172 should be giving out all that information. The FAA receive all of them and uses that to keep everyone apart. Most small aircraft like the Cessna 172 don't have all the things to receive and decode it all so the FAA receives it all does the computing and send it out to the small aircraft to display. Not sure if at the time you made this if the rule was in affect your that almost all aircraft would have this. With all the information given it looks like that is the up link. Sent from the aircraft is the heading and other information but would not have flight numbers, only the code that is given to each one. The ATC computer then puts the flight numbers type of aircraft, with the information form the aircraft like altitude, heading, speed, and Lat Long. Yes I took flying lessons. But it costs much more than I could afford to keep up with.
Receiving directly from their transponders.
I was only looking for a Windows desktop software that displays the radio receiver and connects to a WebSDR server when I came across this distro. I like that it has a lot of most popular WebSDR services built into it if you don't have a SDR dongle to listen but that it also has popular software if you do have such SDR dongles. Reminds me of the days i'd spend hours with my Tandy Radio Shack DX440 listening to shortwave in the 80's. Downloading it now.
how the fuck im just learning this
Being a neophyte to all this, is there a Winklink version for Skywave Linux. Just got 3.1.1 loaded on an HP laptop, dual boot with WIN10. No sound in Skywave just yet.
Thank you Kevin, after your tutorial for sure I will install Skywave Linux.
Well, the more recent versions of Skywave are not that great. Take a look at Dragon OS. I'll probably do a video on it soon. If you're using raspberry Pi, look at HamPi.
very interresting, i gona try it...best...
Great video. While watching, I downloaded Skywave and created a live cd and usb drive. I have a couple of RTL dongles but settled for the SDRPlay RSP2 which works great with the software it came with. Looking forward with trying it out with Skywave.
Man those antennas in your backyard must be the best, looks like they could phone home for et! Hehe I wish lol
In your or anyone else's opinion which SDR radio would you buy for around $300 limit..
Thanks Kevin.
How do you connect the dongle to the antenna. I assume you use an outside antenna or do you use the little 3?inch one that comes with the dongle? Can you cut the mini-coax to that supplied antenna and connect it to a bnc connector?
J. Williams hi you can get a pigtail that takes it from the mcx or in some cases sma to whatever connector you want.
As Gert pointed out, you can get an adapter. I was using the base that came with the 3 inch antenna, but had a 9 inch whip threaded on.
I know this is an old thread..but will this work with an SDRplay,,,RSP2 ?
What are you using for an antenna on you RTL?
Any number of things. It depends on what you want to receive. A short groundplane vertical for vhf and up is good, but a disc cone is better. For HF, with a better SDR, longer wire antennas work well.
enjoy your vids mate
can you do a series on baluns ununs 1 to 1 for 2m 70cm dipole current traps 9 to 1 ununs for long wires be intresting and usefull
thank you for your time and nice manner in your informative vids
Thanks for watching. I'm not sure what I could add on baluns, ununs, and trap dipoles. There's already so many vids out there, including step-by-step on winding and making them. Is there something specific you'd like that hasn't been covered well?
mighty gonk hughes a
yes there is as a matter of fact . i run a long wire as do lots of hams and when i look at google images 9.1 ununs seem to be wound in different ways to achive the same thing why how come is there a standed way or a optermun way
i bought a kit off auction e site that had 15 and a 5 turn pair not seen that on google images often
thanks for the great channel
I wish..but my isp has been throttling my speed to the point that playback buffers mor than playing. Yep..since October 2017..before net neutrality was voted on. During date transfer same thing. Detroit area major isp.
You can get smoother playback if you pause the video right after it starts playing and let it buffer for a bit, then hit play. Sometimes that will let the buffer get far enough ahead to let the video play through without interruption. Sometimes.
hi Kevin nice video, and what hardware sdr dongle currently using
Kevin great video agn! I have an old Salcar rtl_sdr stick which works fine on windows, but on Linux Mint latest version i could not get it run with gqrx. System just do not recognize the stick. Have tryed on Ubuntu - same... :-((
There's a kernel module you need to blacklist. I don't remember all of the details, but I think it was an old analog TV module that see's the RTL dongle and loads, blocking gqrx from seeing it.
Search for "linux rtl-sdr blacklist" and you'll probably find a post or two.
It's an easy fix. You just have to create/edit a blacklist file and reboot so the module doesn't load.
Thanks Kevin, great video !
73 N8AUM
Thank you
Kevin,
When you entered your Longitude, I think you need to enter a minus sign. 73 WB3BJU
Ha! Yes, you're right. No wonder the map started in China. That was the third take and I was getting a bit tired at that point. Thanks for watching.
Kevin,
I'm a WinXP user. I have several empty Verbatim 4GB USB drives. Do I need to make it Linux bootable? How would that be done on a Win machine? 73 WB3BJU
There's a program, I think it's called WinImage. It's designed to dump and ISO image to a USB drive. Do a search on winimage. If that doesn't find it, seach for iso image to USB windows and you'll probably find it. Once you've dumped the image to the USB drive, just boot from it. How you do that will depend on your computer. Most machines have a key you can hit during power up that will give you a boot menu.
Great video Kevin! I have 3 SDR Dongles here and have let them sit because of driver issues and not getting any of them running on Windows. I'll find another machine to run this on and see what it does here. 73 k4RJJ
Well, the nice thing about the live image is that you can boot your existing machine with it and not worry about what you already have installed. You can play around with it without having to find another machine. It's totally safe.
Drivers are always a pain under windows. I have only ever had one piece of hardware that didn't work right away under linux after just plugging it in.
Thanks for this demo. I am trying this out now and learning how to use this hardware.
Nice video on Skywave. I am a pilot and interested in getting some of that ADSB data. I used to be able to save off my Ubuntu systems as a live CD but they quit supporting that. Anyway I am a big fan of live cd to test out operating systems. I have even put a pice cd in a virtual box. Why? Just because I guess. Haha. Thanks for the good content.
Back when I did this vid, skywave was new and pretty good. The latest version of it is not good. There's another project called HamPi that will soon be released for X86 machines that will be much better. I'll do a video on it once it's public.
@@loughkb good to know. I will wait to hear skywave is good. As far as HamPi goes I assumed that was for Raspberry Pi hardware. Perhaps I was assuming some things there.
Just happened to move windows to a new hard drive, and installed Ubuntu yesterday... Bit of a learning curve, but I like it. Keep up the great work! :)
Coming from Windows, you might want to use Ubuntu MATE. The MATE desktop is similar to the classic desktop paradigm like Win95 up through Win7. It's a bit easier to transition.
Went with Ubuntu because a friend of mine uses it as his main, and only rarely uses Windows. Luckily, he's just a text away and lives next door, it's been pretty helpful :)
My I3 ASUS laptop is pretty bogged down with Xubuntu. I'm thinking of compiling a smaller kernel to see if I can speed it up. Ooo, custom kernel video? Or maybe install Arch next to Ubuntu..
Which desktop manager are you running? I'd install XFCE4 and try it. It's much lighter and faster.
XUbuntu comes with XFCE, Its what I am using. I ran top, and found clipit bouncing around, and uninstalled it. It's still not very responsive. I am going to try LXDE, and install Arch next to Ubuntu. Shouldn't be laggy..
Here is my situation with Xubuntu. I have different desktops I can launch. Xubuntu is #1, Xfce is #2, and LXDE is #3. Using either #2 or #3, the computer runs fine. Using #1, it looks like Xfce, but bogs my system down. Gotta stay away from it.
Have you tried this install on something like a Raspberry Pi 3B+?
Hi Kevin do your have a link for your part 3 video for linux for ham video ?
73 Beau n9mfk
I'm not sure which video you're referring to. I have several. Search you tube for my call sign and the word linux and you should find them all.
@@beauthompson5338 Ah! That was awhile ago, I'd forgotten. The program to do that is called WINE. There's a bunch of tutorials already out there. Here's one.
www.pcworld.com/article/2900497/how-to-run-windows-software-in-linux-everything-you-need-to-know.html
Would this be able to run on a pi?
No. Its a complete OS for x86 based hardware. However, nearly all of the included software IS available under Raspian on a pi
@@loughkb thank you. Just saved me a lot of time and frustration
thx 4 sharing...73!!!
Great video!
I got to try this. thanks.
Kevin, is there a program in Linux that replicates Omnirig?
Similar rig control can be done with FLrig. From the same group that does FLdigi.
@@loughkb Thanks...
the problem i got is no audio ive seen how to fix it just haven't got to do it yet
What kind of computer? Also, there's a speaker icon in the menu bar, check volume there. Right click on it to get to sound preferences to check what device is selected for sound. If you have another USB audio device plugged in like a signalink, it could have defaulted to that.
its a dell insperon 570 the only thing pluggin in is the rtl-sdr dongle im just busy getting ready for my first hamfest this weekend and getting stuff ready for field day i will get back to skywave shortly
Does it work in virtual machine?
Yes, it should work fine.
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do you find imsi?
Are these RTL dongles receive ONLY ?
Yes.
@@loughkb Thank you sir, and very good video. KD9GRP