[Dan Maloney] has talked about how to get started in ham radio for under $50. Then again, you might need another $50 for the Raspberry Pi. Of course, there are plenty of opportunities to hack the ...

One problem with ham radio these days is that most hams live where you can’t put a big old antenna up due to city laws and homeowner covenants. If you’re just working local stations on VHF or ...

Now comes the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W version with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. As with the predecessor Pico W, the Infineon Airoc CYW43439, which is coupled to the RP2350 via SPI, is used as the radio chip.

Since we’ll use the lightweight piCorePlayer OS, you don’t need the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi board for this project. In fact, you can follow along o ...