Software Defined Amateur Radio
May 1 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
On Thursday, May 1, 2025, at 7 PM ET, the IEEE Consultants Network of Long Island and the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern New Jersey will co-host a presentation on Software Defined Amateur Radio. Please Register to receive the Zoom link.
Details
Are you interested in using Software-Defined Radio (SDR) to create an amateur radio system? This presentation will describe efforts to integrate USB SDR modules with a Raspberry Pi 4 running the Raspberry Pi OS and open-source radio applications such as Software-Defined Receiver (GQRX) and weak signal communication software (WSJT-X) to create a modular portable amateur radio system.
Topics include:
- Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller programming examples
- Radio and RF apps, including a GNU Radio FM receiver flowgraph
- Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (Qucs) with microstrip RF filter Layout simulation
- Octave OpenEMS electromagnetic field solver
- KiCad layout example
Speaker Bio:
Jay Morreale is an independent electronics consultant at p-brane LLC and provides services for applications in fiber-optic communications, optical networking, sensors, actuator drivers, and undersea systems.
He is a senior member of the IEEE, the vice-chair of the IEEE CNNNJ, and has worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and was a co-founder of Red Sky Systems.
Agenda:
We will start our meeting at 7:00 pm. For the next 10 minutes or so, we will introduce ourselves, handle any LICN business and do a little networking. We will then start our presentation. After the presentation, feel free to stick around and chat with others to network or to further discuss our lecture topic.
NOTES
There is no cost to attend this meeting, however, if you are a NYS Professional Engineer and would like to receive Professional Development Hours (PDHs) of continuing education credit, then payment of a $15 fee is required. You will also have to properly fill out an Evaluation Form to prove that you attended this lecture. Click here to open the form. Simply fill it out and click on the “Submit” button.
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