L Band Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Receiver

[Syed]

Answered in the other thread, but for reference, you might be better off working with Raspbian:

https://outernet-project.github.io/outernet-rpi-lband/index.html

[kalashnikov]

some l band yagis ?
http://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/234/208

http://amsat.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/LBand-Yagis-for-AMSAT.pdf

google “l band yagi” “yagi calculator”

[branko]

@Charlie_nycmesh

I cannot, however, install the drivers for the antenna on the pi without all the developer’s tools you stripped out of the rxos image.

For anyone running into this in future:

Developer tools were not stripped out. They don’t make sense for rxOS. it’s not a distro. The way you modify rxOS is by modifying the firmware itself. To get you started:

• Buildroot manual
• rxOS manual (sorry, still a bit incomplete, questions in the forum welcome)
• rxOS GitHub repository

The build with which you need to get stated is noted in the message that appears when you log in.

The reason developer tools make no sense is that rxOS is a read-only firmware. Anything you do to it, save for a small number of exceptions, will not persist across reboots. While you may think this is an inconvenience, it’s actually a very good set-up for production devices because a single power-cycle brings you back to factory state (more or less), so it’s harder to brick it by user error.