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

[Edson W. R. Pereira]

Hi Ron,

You are right. That was a typo. Thanks for the correction.

73, Edson PY2SDR

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Ron Economos via Ground-Station <
ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> 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> 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/phase4groun
>>> d/ka9q-sdr
>>>
>>> -Michelle W5NYV
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Phil Karn via Ground-Station <
>>> 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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