flying RTL-SDR RPi

[Jacek Radzikowski]

You can run rtl-tcp. It is light enough that RPi0 nas enough computational
power to handle it. The SBC on the drone needs to be connected via WiFi to
your ground station, so adding an external antenna connector may be
necessary. I did that on Pi0, and it wasn't too scary. IIRC you need to
move one capacitor (this can be tricky, it's an 0402-ish part), and an MMCX
connector which you mount on the footprint on the board.
I use a remote rtl-tcp server running on Pi0 for an AMR meter monitor, with
the signal processing part running on another computer.

Jacek
kw4ep


On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 at 18:46, Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> Since I plan to fly a Raspberry Pi (on a drone) for photo work I figure I
> could also attach a SDR dongle to it and look at more than just light from
> 400'.
>
> IINM you can run the dongle and computer as servers and read the data
> remotely, does anyone have this set up?  On a RPi?
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