What is Ham-Pi or Ham Radio Raspberry Pi?

What is Ham-Pi or Ham Radio Raspberry Pi?

We know that Raspberry Pi is a series of small single board computers developed by Raspberry Pi Foundation along with Broadcom. Raspberry Pi 5 was announced on September 28, 2023 and is available in some of the online portals. Ham Pi or Ham Radio Raspberry Pi is an award winning ham radio software distribution for the Raspberry Pi by W3DJS. Initially it was known as W3DJS Raspberry Pi for Ham Radio. There are a lot of Ham Radio software available for us to use like the radio programming software CHIRP, AX25, the driver that allows the Raspberry Pi OS to communicate via AX25 protocol, Direwolf the virtual audio terminal node controller, GPredict used for satellite pass prediction, WSJT-X and so on. Ham-Pi helps in installing these popular Ham Radio software on to Raspberry Pi in a simpler way.

It provides for a menu driven installation with a Raspberry Pi connected to the internet. Needed softwares can be selected from the large list of Ham radio applications. Ham-Pi does the installation work after you select the sofwares and answer a couple of questions like your callsign. In short, Ham-Pi is a Raspberry Pi computer image file that has over 100 Ham radio applications installed. A wiki is also available online for Ham-Pi at gihub.com. Various package categories mentioned on the wiki include design and analysis software for antennas, digital mode applications like FT8, FT4 and WSPR, support for software defined radios like RTL-SDR and SDRPlay SDR, APRS applications, logging software for logging QSOs and contests and even an application for Morse code rig control and training.