[Ground-station] Call for Comment and Critique - KA9Q-SDR readme

[Ron Economos]

Look like it's portaudio19-dev, not libportaudio19-dev.

Ron W6RZ


On 04/22/2018 11:48 AM, Edson W. R. Pereira via Ground-Station wrote:
>
> It is very nice to see a modular implementation for a SDR application. 
> Thank you very much for all your work, Phil. This is a wonderful gift 
> for those of us that like to tinker with SDR and unix.
>
> Some compilation notes for Ubuntu 16.04:
>
> sudo apt-get install libbsd-dev libattr1-dev libopus-dev 
> libportaudio19-dev libncurses-dev
>
> I had to compile a recent version for libfftw3 (version 3.3.7) since 
> the one in the Ubuntu repository (version 3.3.4) did not have 
> fftwf_make_planner_thread_safe() implemented. To compile lib fftw3,
>
> wget http://www.fftw.org/fftw-3.3.7.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf fftw-3.3.7.tar.gz
> cd fftw3-3.3.7
> ./configure  --enable-float --enable-threads
> make
> make install
>
> Then download and unzip the ka9q-radio sources, edit the Makefile and 
> add the path to fftw3. This is the diff.
>
> 3c3
> < INCLUDES=
> ---
> > INCLUDES=-I/usr/local/include
> 27c27
> <     $(CC) -g -o $@ $^ -lfftw3f_threads -lfftw3f -lbsd -lm -lpthread
> ---
> >     $(CC) -g -o $@ $^ -L/usr/local/lib -lfftw3f_threads -lfftw3f 
> -lbsd -lm -lpthread
> 57c57
> <     $(CC) -g -o $@ $^ -lfftw3f_threads -lfftw3f -lncurses -lbsd -lm 
> -lpthread
> ---
> >     $(CC) -g -o $@ $^ -L/usr/local/lib -lfftw3f_threads -lfftw3f 
> -lncurses -lbsd -lm -lpthread
>
> 73, Edson PY2SDR
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Douglas Quagliana via Ground-Station 
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute 
> <mailto:ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>> wrote:
>
>     The original text says that this ran from a command line on
>     Linux.  I did a git clone,  ran make but got numerous errors
>     compiling (bsd/strings.h) and errors linking (-lbsd in particular)
>     I'd love to try it and make a GUI (if I can).
>
>     Which Linux distribution did you use?
>     Which version of gcc?
>
>     Douglas
>
>
>
>     On Saturday, April 21, 2018, Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
>     <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>
>         This software is in the repository here
>         https://github.com/phase4ground/ka9q-sdr
>         <https://github.com/phase4ground/ka9q-sdr>
>
>         -Michelle W5NYV
>
>
>         On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Phil Karn via Ground-Station
>         <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute
>         <mailto:ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>> wrote:
>
>             On 4/21/18 14:36, Douglas Quagliana via Ground-Station wrote:
>             > Hi Michelle,
>             >
>             > Here's my first pass. Suggested changes:
>             >
>             > change "aquire" to "acquire"
>             > change "unecessarily" to "unnecessarily"
>             > change "Curently" to "Currently"
>             > change ""imabalance" to "imbalance"
>             > change "ony" to "only"
>             > change "demdulator" to "demodulator"
>             > change ""operating moded" to "operating mode" ?
>             > change "recordingq" to "recording"
>
>             Yeah, I didn't run a spell checker before I shipped it off.
>
>             >
>             > For the sentence containing "...this noise is only
>             > noticeable in without antenna noise covering it up"
>             > remove the "in" or rewrite.
>             >
>             > I would suggest a slightly different frequency for the
>             example
>             > "147m435" (147.435 MHz) as "435" is frequently used in the
>             > context of 435 MHz (at least for satellite work) and
>             this might
>             > cause some confusion.
>
>             I picked 147.435 as an in-joke for hams in southern
>             California. It's the
>             output of the infamous "animal house" repeater in Los
>             Angeles. But point
>             taken.
>
>             >
>             > In written text, the FUNcube dongle is usually written
>             as "FUNcube"
>             > with the first three letters capitalized (Source:
>             > http://www.funcubedongle.com/)
>
>             I was wondering about this. "Funcube dongle pro+" is a bit
>             of a mouthful
>             but "Funcube" by itself refers to the satellite.
>
>             >
>             > Is there a link to download the software?
>
>             There will be...
>
>             Phil
>
>

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