After I finally got OP25 working on a raspberry pi - I went a little crazy. I wanted a portable version. And here are some attempts of some of my ideas....

I picked up the small SDR dongle from eBay for a few dollars, I didn't like a large dongle hanging out of the Rpi. Turns out it is really really bad, and very heat sensitive.

See description in the pictures for more info, I ran out of characters to fully document 😉

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"portable" Raspberry PI OP25 setup, I tried it out in the car this morning, it worked fine, the speaker was a bit hard to hear, but that is easy enough to fix. But I thought maybe it should be in something that would make it easier to carry....so I came up with this Ikea small box..... now I'm wondering if it will get too hot inside the box.
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I attempted to get this to boot OP25 on restart, but keep getting an error that the software couldn't find a terminal, anybody know a work around for this?

Also I have a 7" and 10" screen that probably would make things easy to read, but also use a lot more power. I am honestly not sure I need a screen at all, except to start the software.

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Adventures with OP25 - This is a Raspberry PI 3b, with just a CLI, and the legacy version of Raspbain - It installed OP25 with no problems at all. It probably would work better on a PI 4, but it works. The screen is pretty small, so it's hard to read (3" HDMI screen maybe 3.5") Battery powered, battery powered small speaker, and battery powered mini keyboard, lots of batteries LOL.... I have no idea why I had suck a hard time get OP25 working a few years ago. #OP25 #RaspberryPI #RPI

I'm going to need to get another Raspberry PI 4 soon, I am not sure I want to dedicate the PI 400 exclusively for the task of running OP25. But for now, it is working, and I am learning more about how OP25 works. And the control channel - Which is listed as being for my county, but seems to include some surrounding counties as well.

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