RemoteRadioBeacon

An application to remotely rotate the antenna, set transmission parameters and transmit.

Tested on Kenwood TS-2000, HyGain DCU3, Raspberry Pi 4

Features

• Control and display of antenna rotor parameters
• Control and display of parameters of a radio
• Calculate the antenna rotor parameters (azimuth and distance) based on GPS coordinates or the Maidenhead locator
• Live visualize antenna beam on the map (is and should)
• Web interface for remote control (flask)
• Multiple antenna rotors and radios supported (based on libhamlib-utils)
• Remote transmission of a wav file
• Https and authentication supported

Preview

Config

• Edit radioresources/config.json to match your setup
• Add your own transmission file radioresources/transmit.wav

Ant Rotator Services

• DummyService - Dummy service for testing
• DCUService - HyGain DCU3

Radio Controller Services

• DummyService - Dummy service for testing
• KenwoodService - Kenwood TS-2000

Install

Development/Conda

• Run conda create --name py311RemoteRadioBeacon python=3.11
• Run conda activate py311RemoteRadioBeacon
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt

Raspberry Pi 4

• sudo apt-get install libhamlib-utils
• cd ..
• mkdir MBPythonEnv
• python -m venv MBPythonEnv/
• source MBPythonEnv/bin/activate
• cd RemoteRadioBeacon
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Start

Development/Conda

• conda activate py311RemoteRadioBeacon
• ./start.sh

Raspberry Pi 4

Connect Radio

• Run and kill process

rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="ON",dtr_state="ON"

• Reset ptt after

rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" T 0

Software

• cd ..
• source MBPythonEnv/bin/activate
• cd RemoteRadioBeacon
• ./start.sh

Debug

rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" get_freq
rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" set_freq 431030000

rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" get_mode
rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" set_mode USB 0

rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" get_level RFPOWER
rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" set_level RFPOWER 0.1

rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="OFF",dtr_state="OFF" T 0
rigctl -m 2014 -s 38400 -r /dev/ttyUSB3 -P /dev/ttyUSB3 --set-conf=rts_state="ON",dtr_state="ON" T 1