SoC/SBC Boards for Ham Radio (2)

fldigi-on-pi2withcirrus44Figure 1: FLDigi is shown running on the Pi2, decoding a BPSK signal, using Cirrus audio.

The Cirrus adapter worked just fine on the Pi2, as can be seen in figure 1.0. I took the audio first from the “phones” jack of an old amateur radio receiver, and then from the sound card of a second PC running a browser webSDR page. This audio was connected via the “line-in” connector of the Cirrus adapter in the Pi2 box. In both cases the audio was very good, and was adequate to decode signals while using a only a moderate input level. The noise and spur levels were much less than on an i386 PC based machine I had used for FLDigi/ham activities in the past.

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