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I have configured several Kiwis for wifi access by attaching an inexpensive router configured as a Wifi client to the ethernet port of the Kiwi. This $25 TP Link has worked well for me:
https://smile.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Portable-Travel-Router/dp/B00TQEX8BO/ref=sr_1_14?keywords=tplink+wifi+router&qid=1548188019&sr=8-14
In principle one could enable the internal BB Wifi or attach a USB wifi adapter, but I am reluctant to fiddle with the Kiwi's OS.
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Yes, I needed to fix the antenna configuration information. Thanks Glenn and Diego
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Very nice. But my AI6VN/KH6 site in Maui shows no link and very old Kiwi SW v1.417. Where can I update that? 73, Rob
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I adjust the PSU voltage to 5.0V while monitoring the power pins on the USB-A port of the BB
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In wsprdaemon I invoke kiwirecorder with the ‘-OV’ command line flag and redirect stdout to a log file. WD checks that log file every 10 seconds to determine if/how many OVs have been output. From that count WD derives the number of OVs in each 10…
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Use wsprdaemon for its scheduling feature and you will also get use WSJT-x 2.3 wsprd decoder which gets 1-2 dB better SNRs and thus 10+% more spots.
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It will support both modes and all the packet lengths
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I would be a lot of wasted work for me to modify V2.10x to handle just FST4W-120. V3.0 should be in beta test within a few weeks
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Hi Steve, I am adding support for all the FST4W-nnn modes to wsprdaemon V3.0. The auto-wspr feature built in to the Kiwi is a port from an earlier version of WDSJT-x and required a significant amount of code rewriting. Also, that current autows…
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When I connect the microUSB port of the the Kiwi to a USB port of a Raspberry Pi, the Pi sees a new ethernet interface appear on LAN 192.168.7.0/30. The Kiwi assigns itself 192.168.7.2, but I forget if it acts as a DHCP server to the Pi. So on the…
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That is a great demo Glenn
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The Park Service has denied us volunteers access to the KPH facility since the start of Covid last spring. While that is annoying I am sympathetic to their situation. If they were to grant exceptions to one set of citizens, then other would want t…
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It was my experience that the single spot upload interface to wsprnet.org takes 200-300 msecs per spot and of course generates lots of TCP setup/terminate traffic. In contrast, WD can upload 100- spots to wsprnet.org in 1000 msecs using the batch m…
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Thanks Yuri, I was not aware of frp. I'll make it a configurable option in a future version of wsprdaemon. Rob
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With some SW complexity, wsprdeaemon does log the number of OV events in each 10 minutes. But there is no UI for WD and of course only some Kiwi users are running WD, so it would be good for the Kiwi's UI to me more informative of OV events.
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Yes John, the short persistence of the red OV is my problem. I had been depending upon that red OV to determine if I needed to add more AM band rejection filtering. But I noticed severe OV conditions at sunrise/sunset only when I looked at the ws…
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Once I disabled the WS there was enough memory for the make of V1.417 to complete. I will upgrade to V1.418 once it appears on my Update page. Thanks for the guidance.
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I tried a reboot followed only by a 'make' and got the same error. On the 1 GB Pi 4 I need to disable the console GUI to free enough memory to run wsprdaemon. Is there a similar way to free memory on the BBAI by disabling its console GUI? Your dia…
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My compile fails. After performing an upgrade + update on Buster on the BBAI, I followed instructions at the top of this thread to 'make clean; make' and after compiling many files, a compile repeatedly fails on the same file: ....... make[1]: Le…
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yes, please do
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Is there any easy way to remotely access the Kiwi's date? I can run 'ssh root@kiwi.local date', but I'll need to set up the WD user on the Pi to auto-ssh-login to the root account on the Kiwi.
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wsprnet.org expects the spot's cycle date/time in each spot uploaded It is unclear to me what validation wsprnet.org applies to uploaded spots. The wsprnet API I use to scrape their site returns lists with gaps of up to 250 raw spot IDs, so they ap…
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That is a great solution. Thanks But I now realize that the date/time of the cycle is part of each spot posted. I'm sure I can work around that limitation, and there is always the Pi hat approach.
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SOLVED I carefully read the "Using a USB network connection for initial Beagle access" section of the user manual but could access the Kiwi from a Win10 PC or from a Raspberry Pi On the Kiwi, 'ifconfig' command lists usb0 with IP addres…
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Hi Edward, WD installation remains as automatic as I can make it on any Ubuntu ARM and i86 platform. An Odroid or Pi4 has plenty of CPU power to service 2 Kiwis both in 8 channel mode and at the same time act as a modestly performing Linux desktop…
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Hi Stu, I notice that you are running an earlier version of WD which uses the WSJT-x 2.1.1 'wsprd' decoder. If you execute 'git pull' on your Pi, you will get WD V2.9g which will install the newly released WSJT-x 2.2.2 wsprd decoder which extracts …
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I could imagine installing WD on a BBAI machine and dedicate a core to run it. But synchronizing Kiwi and WD code upgrades would be a mess. For example, just this week I was able to upgrade 20+ WD sites to use the wsprd in WSJT-x 2.2.1 which produ…
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V2.9 had a bug which blocked generating noise level graphs. That has been fixed in 2.9a and you can learn more at: http://wsprdaemon.org/forum.html
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The new code is backwards compatible with earlier WD.conf and running installations. WD extended spots are stored in a new TS table 'wsprdaemon_spots' on wsprdaemon.org and include high resolution frequency and DT spot values and include all the fi…
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Yes, that is the LBR. You donated one of those 7 Kiwis. It is good that I haven't needed to touch it for months, since now I can't get access until the quarantine is lifted. The Pi4 running wsdprdaemon is on a lower shelf.
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For over a year, at KPH I have fed 7 Kiwis from one GPS antenna on the roof: GPS Puck ====> 30M RG-6u =====> $15 passive splitter =====> 7 Kiwis The 8-way I used is no longer offered, but I have installed this 6 way at other sites: https…