As I mentioned in my previous post , my shack PC was QRT due to a HDD failure . Even though I didn't replace its 160GB HDD , I can use it without much trouble , running Linux , Xubuntu to be precise . I installed Ubuntu 14.04 with Xubuntu desktop and now it works very well , even though it throws some errors here and there ! It is now armed with a variety of tools ( software) . The major software are
I'm also going to install some circuit simulation tools like QUCS in the near future . And of course , Ubuntu terminal rocks !
- GQRX :-a nice software for SDR operations , can be installed from terminal as " sudo apt-get install gqrx " or from software center
- Python :- for small programming exercises , can be installed from terminal as " sudo apt-get install python " or from software center
- rtl_power :- a powerful utility to make wideband spectrum observations with RTLSDR
- RTLSDR - scanner :- an extremely powerful tool for RF engineering , I downloaded it yesterday and am thinking of its possible uses , ranging from filter design to amplifier testing to radio astronomy . It can be downloaded from "https://github.com/EarToEarOak/RTLSDR-Scanner " as a zip file , change directory to src in the extracted file and run " python rtlsdr_scan.py" from the terminal
- Arduino IDE :- you know what it is used for !
- GNOME Predict : A highly useful software to make satellite pass predictions .
I'm also going to install some circuit simulation tools like QUCS in the near future . And of course , Ubuntu terminal rocks !
