RadioBerry: Community Help, Contributions, and Expectations

[pa3gsb]

Hi all,

Lately I’ve noticed that some of the same questions and issues keep coming up in the group.

That makes sense, because RadioBerry can be used in many different ways, and there are a lot of possible configurations and modifications.

If you have found a fix or made an improvement, please feel free to submit a PR (pull request). I’ll be happy to review it and merge it if it fits.

Please also keep helping each other in the group. Sharing solutions, setups, and experiences can really help others.

If you have your own GitHub repository with a special setup, custom configuration, or useful additions, please let me know. I’d be happy to add links or information to the RadioBerry wiki so others can benefit from it too.

As I’ve said before, I’m just sharing my own experiments.
RadioBerry is not a commercial product, and I’m not providing production-level support or services.
I’m not selling hardware.
And no, I’m not spying on anyone — I’m simply trying to help, share ideas, and learn together with the community.

Thanks to everyone who contributes, tests, shares ideas, and helps others.
It is really appreciated.

Let’s keep improving RadioBerry together.

Enjoy

Johan

PA3GSB

[AL7AK]

Johan, Thanks for sharing your project with us.

I believe that the only pre-amp board available for Radioberry is the Aursinc board. It is easily available thru Amazon and Aliexpress. It would be nice to support this board because it is slightly different than the original design. Probably to save costs.

Thanks again.

[Duane's Mind]

Johan, thanks for all your help, work and time it's much appreciated.

I do have a request though to edit those 4 files to make the VSWR work. 

I got it to work really well on the PI4 but now that I've upgraded to the Pi5 I'm a bit lost in trying to edit those 4 files again.

Mant thanks

[N7CXI]

I will admit to being goal-oriented, sorry if I was part of the problem.
The RadioBerry is working well enough to use with my dual-band transverter now,

thanks to Johan's bugfix in the firmware. I may put together a dedicated 2M/70CM rig based on it.

My next windmill could be the Juice board. I tried all the Juice distro and app combinations I could find,

but none of them will demodulate audio correctly with the Aurasinc Juice board I bought from

Amazon a week or so ago. I read a bunch of traffic in this group, but none of it is very recent.

Is this board worth spending further time on?

Thanks,

Jim N7CXI

[Frank Thomsen]

Dear Johan,

I am totally with you, this is a great experimental platform, I thoroughly enjoy it! 

The great, but also the not so great, thing is that the RadioBerry board is readily available from a Chinese manufacturer, so the actual process of putting it all together and doing the deep dive into the nature of the components used, is kinda skipped. 

No biggie, but big enough to make people think they have an out of the box finished product.

However, what this is, is a great project building on the Hermes Lite 2 legacy with the beauty of a Pi HAT format. 

And most certainly in the current Pi5 iteration, it's brings a whole new dimension to HF digimode skimming - 6 bands is fantastic - I have a day and a night time setup (20-10 and 80-20M using SparkSDR). 

9 bands (which is what we really want) would be totally perfect, but I doubt even the Pi5 is capable of that - even at 48KHz slices.

Basically something like this, was exactly what I was looking for: A low power consumption receiver that would cover (almost) all HF bands skimming FT8. 

The Chinese copy of the 5W power amplifier board does indeed work, but for me that is not so important, I am primarily focusing on the RX options!

Well, a slight adjustment might be in order here: 

Because TX was important enough for me to get 10 fresh transistors to play with to see if I can make it produce a few watts of LINEAR VOICE transmission without popping the transistors in a few seconds. 

The Chinese designer didn't put much effort into cooling the little transistors, I fear even with extra fan cooling it may not be possible to run these units with proper good linearity - they were not designed for that anyway. 

So if I cannot get good voice linearity, I am quite happy to run it as digimode only TX at the transistor manufacturers specified bias and whatever output I can get without destroying the transistors all the time.

So again, thanks for putting it out there Johan, it has re-kindled my passion for radio, SDR in particular :-)

73, OZ5ACI, Frank