New to the digital age

[rumfordsa]

Greetings everyone,

A little info about me I've been a radio enthusiast for several years now. I'm currently studying for my technician class license. I'm mostly active on FRS, CB, and scanning. While I used to use a cheap baofeng uv5r for a scanner my local emergency services have gone digital. APCO P25 phase II to be exact. I really miss listening to the scanner as CB radio is about dead in my area. I've been doing some research in to digital scanners and I can't justify $300+ to the wife at the moment. So I started looking into SDR and it seems that with my current windows PC I would be unable to listen to a phase II P25 system. I've been looking into getting a raspberry pi b3 as that seems to be the cheapest way to go. I have a few questions if anyone has time I'm extremely green to anything linux and worried I'd be ran off with in depth technical jargon if I posted in the sdr forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

7s & 3s

 

[w2xq]

The Ham Radio & Off-Grid Power – OH8STN Amateur Digital Field & QRP Operator of OH8STN attracted my attention for his extensive use of the Raspberry Pi. He includes interesting YouTube videos. The concept of offloading activities normally requiring a Windiws PC is a leap forward IMHO. Perhaps some of his ideas and identified resources may help you. HTH.

 

[rumfordsa]

Thanks for the reply w2xq.

I searched the link you provided and came up with some new ideas but my main project currently is to build a digital scanner for a trunked P25 phase II system. I've been reading in the sdr forum but I'm not quite to the technical level as everyone else is there

7&3