AetherSDR - Raspberry Pi4b & Super Touch Screen

[00:00:00]M0FXB, Aether SDR on my Raspberry Pi 4. I love these screens. They're £42 delivered.

[00:00:07]Now, they do not include the Raspberry Pi. And to have this, you need a Flex radio. And don't forget they they cost a few pounds. But anyway, I've got a keyboard paired to this. And it does have a little pad.

[00:00:22]Um so, watch this. Now, we can we can actually tap the screen, okay? So, let me just do that.

[00:00:28]Uh 20. And it's making the radio change.

[00:00:31]Now, you can't just you know, download this app and you're receiving what I'm receiving, okay? You can't do that. You need the Flex radio.

[00:00:39]Just just for the people that messages me saying saying that cuz I've had a few say to me, "Oh, where do you download that, you know?"

[00:00:46]But you need the Flex radio. Band 40.

[00:00:51]All right. So, and everything works.

[00:00:53]You've got your panel here on the side.

[00:00:54]And it's so nice that you can do it all touch screen. I tend to prefer using my you know, my keypad here.

[00:01:02]And of course, you're only going to get signals if the if the conditions are good.

[00:01:06]So, I'm just clicking.

[00:01:09]Now, this does have an internal you know, this little screen does have internal speaker.

[00:01:15]Uh I have paired via Bluetooth. It's got Wi-Fi, of course. Let me show you the Pi.

[00:01:23]So, if you look here, we've got the Raspberry Pi 4.

[00:01:27]You've got the cables that are coming getting the power from the GPIO. This colored cable is uh allowing the touch screen to work.

[00:01:37]This HDMI cable from this HDMI connection um is giving you the screen. And this screen will work on everything. Yeah, it doesn't just doesn't have to be a Pi.

[00:01:48]Uh USB-C in 2 amp there. It feeds the Pi. And then the Pi feeds everything with power.

[00:01:54]So, the amount of experiments you can do with this. Let me just double click some of these signals.

[00:02:02]And you compare this with VNC.

[00:02:07]Volume here. Oh, it's quite loud already.

[00:02:11]And this is So, I'm just uh I don't think that would make any difference anyway.

[00:02:22]Um so, what we got here?

[00:02:26]Receive controls, power.

[00:02:29]We can show SWR meter.

[00:02:32]S meter there. Antennas, we can change antennas.

[00:02:36]Moving down, we've got our filters there.

[00:02:40]2.7 bandwidth here.

[00:02:47]Squelch.

[00:02:49]It is a bit fiddly, you know.

[00:02:52]Because it's a small screen, but the app is brilliant. Look at all that.

[00:03:00]And let's just Well, what else we got up here?

[00:03:04]Volume's loud. I'm just going to click here.

[00:03:11]You got your flag control.

[00:03:15]Oh, look at that.

[00:03:24]And someone there.

[00:03:32]Band antenna display.

[00:03:36]Memory in the DACs.

[00:03:40]Let's take this one. You can hide the See the way it hid it there?

[00:03:47]PC audio, turn on and off.

[00:03:51]Pan lock. Oh.

[00:03:54]It's quite a big signal meter. Let's click that.

[00:03:57]All your little extra things you can enable. Cat, TCI, IQ.

[00:04:05]Great.

[00:04:06]Uh where's our mode?

[00:04:10]I know it's right in front of me.

[00:04:14]There it is there.

[00:04:16]Mode, DSP.

[00:04:24]There you go.

[00:04:26]XRT.

[00:04:28]Dax.

[00:04:36]TX. You can move the TX. You can hear the I can hear the radio click there.

[00:04:40]It's all This is all wireless. It's just You need to be on the same network.

[00:04:45]There's excellent here. CPU is Raspberry Pi 4.

[00:04:51]And then look, you can go back to single.

[00:04:58]Oh.

[00:05:09]They're right on two, aren't they?

[00:05:17]So yeah, it's not the best speaker, but there is a volume on this. Let me just see if I can find it without turning it off.

[00:05:22]>> [snorts] >> Uh it's just a bit dark here.

[00:05:25]I'll just go as loud as you can go. But like I said, you get these screens and you can experiment with so many different different, you know, gadgets.

[00:05:32]It doesn't have to be You could, you know, you could um You could do WSJT-X. You can add Wi-Fi to your Icom 7300 with this using WFView. Let me get the torch out so I can see which one is the the volume.

[00:05:49]Exit, on, off, menu, up and down. Let's try the up.

[00:05:56]That's the brightness.

[00:06:00]Uh power's at the top.

[00:06:03]Menu.

[00:06:06]Where's volume? There it is.

[00:06:10]Volume.

[00:06:13]It is loud anyway.

[00:06:17]It's such a small screen. I think that's enough for now, but anyway, um check it out. Bye for now.