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NanoSDR
NanoSDR is a ready to use distribution for NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2G and 4G
dedicated to amateur radio applications. It is based on a Ubuntu 18.04
root filesystem and LXDE desktop and comes with several popular apps
compiled for the Nano (see details below).

SDR-Technologies develops different SDR products based on NVIDIA

embedded GPU and we have worked on this distribution to estimate the
processing capabilities of these "small" processors. Originally for internal
use, the team (mainly licensed amateurs) believes this could be
something useful for the community and we have decided to release the
work as a set of "ready to use" SD-Cards.

The images are quite big and are hosted in a public web server, please
bear in mind you are about to download several gigabytes of data before
being able to play with it...

The files are provided "as is" and we cannot commit to release regular
updates, but we will continue to improve it and maybe offer here scripts to
update/add new features to the existing image.
Feel free to use the "Github issues" features to suggest improvements.

Download link
Download image corresponding to your Jetson-Nano.
Take care to use adequate image since hardware is not the same for
Nano-2GB and nano 4GB models.

Image for Jetson Nano 2GB : http://download.sdr-

technologies.fr/nano/jetson-nano-hamradio-2GB.zip
(md5 : 42add6780e5d7e7b904746b9b237db8a, sha1sum :
4332f6b2282b56c5a201fec00b2973cc7e97e717 )

Image for Jetson Nano 4GB : http://download.sdr-

technologies.fr/nano/jetson-nano-hamradio-4GB.zip
(md5 : 3641810a0b4e16b7cd63e3a45fc39818, sha1sum :
923d667a73c071f89a468505f8267ba3d4831b75 )

Default user
Default user is ubuntu , default password : ubuntu
First boot is longer than usual since the Nano needs to recreate SSH keys,
and expand filesystem partition to maximum available size.
Once session is opened feel free to change locale settings and keyboard
mapping.
Pre-installed languages/keyboards : english-US, french, german, spanish.

Installed applications

Introduction
Most of installed applications are supporting SoapySDR. However only
RTLSDR and PlutoSDR support have been deeply tested.
Feel free to install SoapySDR module corresponding to your device if not
yet installed.

Development suite
Gcc 7 and 8
Cuda Toolkit version 10.2
Boost, Volk, ....
Git , CMake, Qt 5

SoapySDR

Current version installed on NanoSDR is v0.8

Supported modules are : BladeRF, plutoSDR, RTLSDR, SDRPlay, Airspy,
SoapyRemote

######################################################
## Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library ##
######################################################

Lib Version: v0.8.0-g926c86d9

API Version: v0.8.0
ABI Version: v0.8
Install root: /usr/local
Search path: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8
Module found:
/usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/libPlutoSDRSupport.so (0.2.0-
6e2ae74)
Module found:
/usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/libairspySupport.so (0.1.2-
 10d697b)
Module found:
/usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/libbladeRFSupport.so (0.4.1-
1c1e8aa)
Module found:
/usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/libremoteSupport.so (0.6.0-
c09b2f1)
Module found:
/usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/librtlsdrSupport.so (0.3.1-
bec4f05)
Module found:
/usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/libsdrPlaySupport.so (0.3.0-
8c4e330)
Available factories... airspy, bladerf, plutosdr, remote,
rtlsdr, sdrplay
....

GNUradio 3.8.2

This version was installed and compiled using PPA sources, gr-iio module
(PlutoSDR support) is also installed.

osmocom & gr-osmocom

built-in source types:

gr-osmosdr f9a99388 (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.8.2.0

built-in source types: file osmosdr rtl rtl_tcp uhd plutosdr
miri hackrf bladerf rfspace airspy soapy redpitaya spyserver

Specific compilation with plutoSDR and Spyserver client

https://github.com/dk2ro/gr-osmosdr-pluto-spyserver

Please note that osmocom is not really maintained with plutoSDR support,
hopefully some forks are working well.

GQRX 2.14.2-4

This is the latest version compiled from sources :

https://github.com/csete/gqrx

Note : Spyserver client might crash GQRX if incorrect samplerate is set.

Should work better on a LAN than using internet-spyservers because he
needs a stable stream.
SigDigger

https://github.com/BatchDrake/SigDigger

SigDigger is a free-as-in-freedom digital signal analyzer with an intuitive

GUI that provides different capture modes (replay and real-time capture
from the different SDR devices supported by SoapySDR), analysis modes
(burst and streaming), signal characterization (Doppler shift, time and
frequency measurements, manual and automatic parameter estimation)
and fully configurable demodulators for analog audio (AM, FM and SSB),
video (PAL, NTSC and custom modes) and digital modes (PSK, FSK and
ASK).

Inspectrum

https://github.com/miek/inspectrum

URH

https://github.com/jopohl/urh

QSSTV

QSSTV has been installed from Ubuntu repository, since sources are not
available.

WS-JTX 2.2.2

Compiled from sources available here:

https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-2.2.2.tgz

LuaRadio 0.8

LuaRadio can be used to rapidly prototype software radio applications,

modulation/demodulation utilities, and signal processing experiments. It
can also be embedded into existing radio applications to serve as a user
scriptable engine for signal processing. LuaRadio is very similar to
GNUradio using blocks, sources, sinks, except it use scripts (no GUI).

Very nice and functional examples are provided on the website &github for
RTLSDR device, can be easily adapted to other devices. Website :
https://luaradio.io

RTLSDR_Airband
https://github.com/szpajder/RTLSDR-Airband/

Compiled with following specific options : PLATFORM= armv8-generic

make NFM=1 PULSE=1 WITH_RTLSDR=1 WITH_SOAPYSDR=1 Default
configuration file is : /usr/local/etc/rtl_airband.conf
To use your own configuration file use -c parameter followed by full path
to your customized config file.

FFMPEG (GPU acceleration)

https://github.com/jocover/jetson-ffmpeg
This is a full version of FFMPEG including all available supported formats.
Please report to the author's repository for GPU-accelerated
decoders/encoders use. Since it relies on GPU hardware for acceleration,
you have to run it as sudo user.

multimon-ng 1.1.8

https://github.com/EliasOenal/multimon-ng

rtl_433 (soapy support)

https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433

For PlutoSDR run : rtl_433 -d plutosdr ....

rx_tools (soapy)

https://github.com/rxseger/rx_tools

tx_sdr

Tool for transmitting data to SDRs, based on rtl_sdr from librtlsdr, and
rx_sdr from rx_tools, using the SoapySDR vendor-neutral SDR support
library, intended to support a wide range of TX-capable devices.
https://github.com/triq-org/tx_tools

This tool has not been tested due to lack of time ...

dump1090 (/usr/bin/readsb)

https://github.com/Mictronics/readsb
Note : original executable "dump1090" as been renamed by the author.
Use readsb command instead.
 For plutoSDR use : dump1090 --device-type plutosdr

Conda installer

Conda installer for arm64 platforms comes from conda-forge :

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/download/4.9.2-
3/Miniforge-pypy3-Linux-aarch64.sh On the jetson nano, installation path
is located in /opt directory.

Thank you !
First, thanks to the authors of those nice SDR applications !

Thank you for giving your time testing the nanoSDR image and providing
suggestions and ideas:

F4GKR - Twitter : @sylvain_azarian

F5OEO - Twitter : @F5OEOEvariste
F5OZP
LamaBleu - Twitter : @fonera_cork

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