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[Stephen Michael Kellat <skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is taken from the AMSAT bulletin.  I don't know how much overlap 
we've got as a LoCo between *buntu users and duly-licensed amateur radio 
operators.  This is looking at Linux from the outside...a perspective we 
must not forget.

This is something cool to think about this weekend in looking at doing 
old things in new ways perhaps.

SMK

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Subject: 	[ans] ANS-169 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
Date: 	Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:33:49 -0400
From: 	Lee McLamb <ku4os@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: 	ans@xxxxxxxxx


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Credit Card Sized Raspberry Pi Computer Board Runs Ham Radio Software

AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NA member Dave Johnson, G4DPZ, has been using
the Raspberry Pi to run amateur radio satellite software.

The £22 ($35) Model B Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized ARM-based
computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. Based around the
700 MHz ARM11 processor the board has 256 MB SDRAM, two USB ports,
Ethernet with composite and HDMI video outputs. Low-level peripher-
als are GPIO pins, SPI, I²C, I²S and UART.

It was developed in Cambridgeshire by a UK registered charity, the
Raspberry Pi Foundation, which exists to promote the study of com-
puter science and related topics, especially at school level, and
to put the fun back into learning computing.

Dave?s Raspberry Pi runs Debian Squeeze with Xwindows and is acces-
sed using VNC over his shack network.

The first amateur radio application he got running was the GPredict
satellite tracking software, thanks go to Alex Csete OZ9AEC for mak-
ing such a portable implementation. Dave found the sofware and up-
dates of the Keplerian Two Line Elements from the Internet worked
perfectly.

More information about the Raspberry Pi can be found at:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

GPredict free real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction
software can be found at: http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/

See also AMSAT-UK (http://www.uk.amsat.org/8019) for photos and
additional information about the Raspberry Pi.

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]


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