%% Debian GNU/Linux in the Ham Shack %% Copyright 2003 Bdale Garbee %% %% Title: %% %% Debian GNU/Linux in the Ham Shack %% %% Abstract: %% %% How Bdale and others use Debian for ham radio computing applications. %% %% %% Define the fonts we will use %% %deffont "standard" tfont "Arial.ttf" %deffont "typewriter" tfont "Times_New_Roman.ttf" %deffont "fixed" xfont "terminal" %% %% Default settings for special lines %% %default 1 leftfill, fore "black", back "white", bimage "background.bmp" %default 2 size 7, vgap 10, prefix " ", font "standard" %default 3 size 2, bar "gray70", vgap 10 %default 4 size 5, vgap 30, font "standard" %% %% Default settings for indented lines %% %tab 1 size 5, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon box "green" 50 %tab 2 size 4, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon arc "red" 50 %tab 3 size 3, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon delta3 "blue" 40 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %nodefault, font "standard", fore "black", back "white", bimage "background.bmp" %center Debian GNU/Linux in the Ham Shack %size 6 Bdale Garbee, KB0G %size 5 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Objectives for Today What is Ham Radio? GNUradio Why should hams choose Debian? Some examples... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page What is Ham Radio? A technical and communications hobby Licensed radio operators Training ground for communications professionals Best known perhaps for use of the "shortwave" bands for international contacts, and continued use of the Morse telegraphy code Strong technical development sub-community Strong public service sub-community Many facets to the hobby %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page GNUradio GNU Radio is a collection of software that when combined with minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software. What this means is that it turns the digital modulation schemes used in today's high performance wireless devices into software problems. Library of signal processing functions Framework for constructing (de)modulation chains Bits and pieces for user interface %center http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page So, Why use Debian in the Shack? Experimentation is a key objective of the amateur service, and Open Source is to software what published schematics are to hardware. Because it's free (beer and speech!) Debian operates like a big ham radio project Explicit ham radio application section The debian-hams mailing list Lots of (free!) high-quality development tools... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Things Debian is Known For Excellent package management system High quality Quick updates for security issues Excellent support through mailing lists, IRC, etc Open bug tracking system Debian "stable releases" are actually stable... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Map of Debian Developer Locations %center, image "developers.map.jpeg" 0 130 130 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Ham Radio Packages in Debian See http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ ... Satellite tracking AO-40 telemetry decoding AX.25 and APRS CW, PSK-31, Fax, Slow-scan Radio interface/control Antenna modeling Clock, Maps, Bearings Config daemon for Gracilis PackeTen Many programs outside the hamradio section... Development tools for PIC, AVR, etc... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Debian Ham Project http://debianham.sunsite.dk A minimized Debian distribution for contest logging Boots from floppy on 386 or better, runs from ram disk Intended as an Open Source alternative to K1EA's CT Uses the full-featured TLF logging program by PA0RCT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Some Examples Bdale Garbee, KB0G Antenna tracking, AO-40 telemetry, "Everything!" John Ackermann, N8UR Debian/KDE/Openoffice.org laptop used for presentations, APRS Jaye Inabnit, KE6SLS SSTV, PSK-31, etc Peter Lemken, DF5JT XPlanet Joop Stakenborg, PA3ABA logging, dx-cluster Joaquin Seoane Health and welfare networks using Debian and AX.25 links! http://www.ehas.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KB0G's Satellite Antennas %center, image "dcc-dscf0025.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KB0G's Shack %center, image "dcc-dscf0006.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KB0G - 6 Architectures Running Debian %center, image "dscf0003.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Launch Stack Diagram %center, image "039_On_507/L_ASAPcutaway_bg.jpg" 0 100 100 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page ESA Launch Complex %center, image "005A_ELA2_Area/DSCN1826.JPG" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Testing P3D in Kourou %center, image "015_Electronics/003.jpg" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Testing P3D in Kourou %center, image "015_Electronics/DSCN0692.JPG" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Testing P3D in Kourou %center, image "015_Electronics/DSCN0918.JPG" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page RUDAK CPU %center, image "rudak-photos/bdale13.jpg" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page RUDAK Ready for Flight! %center, image "dscf0006.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Final Testing of AO-40 in Kourou %center, image "dscf0002.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Solar Panel Final Check %center, image "022_Arrays/MVC-458X.JPG" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Before Primary Payload %center, image "039_On_507/1109.jpg" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page PAS-1R %center, image "039_On_507/L_image094.jpg" 0 125 125 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Launch! %center, image "041_Launch/vol135a.jpg" 0 110 110 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page FY5KE %center, image "dscf0025.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "KDE1_with_kworldclock_and_psk31_circuit_diagram.jpg" 0 75 75 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "LinPsk.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "PhaseShift.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Qsstv.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Seti_pic.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "TWLog_logging_program_on_kde2.22.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Xcwcp_CW_Practice_code_generator.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Xlog_logger_program_kde2.22.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page DF5JT %center, image "df5jt.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page PA4TU %center, image "screenshot-pa4tu.png" 0 64 64 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Health and Welfare Network %center, image "mapa.png" 0 175 175 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "CS_Shucush_y_torre_rot.jpg" 0 80 80 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Subiendo_shungo_en_Panam.jpg" 0 60 60 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "ServerAndBatteryLoader.jpg" 0 190 190 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Servidor_v3.jpg" 0 150 150 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Servidor_por_dentro.jpg" 0 70 70 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Medico_concentrado_en_PC.jpg" 0 58 58 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Tecnico_con_correo.jpg" 0 80 80 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page To Learn More %center %size 10 http://www.debian.org/ debian-hams mailing list www.gag.com/~bdale/talks/