Requirements

In order to follow this guide, you will need:

• Raspberry Pi
• 4GB or larger microSD card with a Raspbian image
• SDR radio dongle
• LNA
• antenna with sufficient gain
• Internet connection configured on Raspbian
• knowledge of Linux command line

The radio, LNA, and antenna, can be purchased through Outernet either individually or as a kit. You may also want to have:

• HDMI monitor
• HDMI cable
• USB or wireless keyboard
• USB or wireless mouse

This guide is written against the following version of Raspbian:

Raspbian version	May 2016
Kernel version	4.4
Download URL	http://bit.ly/raspbian-jessie-2016-05-27

Note

We will not go into the details of how the Raspbian microSD cards are created. That is left as an exercise for the reader.