Raspberry Pi 5 for Hamshack Radio Amateurs: A Hands-On Guide to Setting Up, Operating, and Maintaining a Raspberry Pi 5 for Everyday Amateur Radio Use by M. T Holbrook

Your radio can do a lot, but the real bottleneck in most ham shacks is everything around the rig: messy cabling, unreliable digital audio, CAT that works one day and fails the next, time drift that ruins weak-signal decodes, and a computer that’s either too noisy, too power-hungry, or always “updating” when you want to get on the air. If you’ve been looking at the Raspberry Pi 5 and wondering, “Can this actually run my station tasks without drama?” this book is written for you. Raspberry Pi 5 for Hamshack Radio Amateurs is a practical, hands-on guide that shows you how to set up a Pi 5 as a steady ham shack tool, not a weekend science project that never finishes. It walks you through the real-world choices that matter (power, storage, cooling, clean audio paths, reliable CAT, and stable remote access), then builds your station step-by-step so each piece works before you stack on the next. You’ll learn how to: choose the right Pi 5 model and accessories for ham use install and harden your operating system for long sessions Read more