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# Antennas
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# Antennas
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There are a huge number of antennas available, commercially as well as DIY that can get you on the air.
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## V/UHF
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For VHF, it's quite common to use a 'white stick' colinear at home - they generally buy you a few dB over a dipole to help your range and are built to handle permanent, exposed installation for a number of years.
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For multiband antennas like most colinears on the market, you can run two bands simultaneously - you need a unit that interfaces multiple radios to the single antenna known as a diplexer. This will prevent RF from/to other bands from running down the coax to damage your radios.
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In my station, I use a Diamond V-2000 with an MX-2000 triplexer.
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## HF
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The most basic system is a dipole of some variety.
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Have a little look through your application launcher to see if there is an app catalogue, application store, package list or similar.
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Have a little look through your application launcher to see if there is an app catalogue, application store, package list or similar.
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On the Raspberry Pi, it's as below. To find it, go to the Raspberry Pi menu (Raspberry Icon, Top Left), Preferences and select Add/Remove software.
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![Featherpad Installation](static/img/install-featherpad.png)
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## Filesystem Layout
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## Filesystem Layout
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In a Windows system, the very top of your computer's filesystem is most often the C Drive, represented as C: commonly. Windows also neatly shows other drives as similar folder structures - CD Drives often start at D:, Floppy drives at A:.
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In a Windows system, the very top of your computer's filesystem is most often the C Drive, represented as C: commonly. Windows also neatly shows other drives as similar folder structures - CD Drives often start at D:, Floppy drives at A:.
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### Editing text as root
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### Editing text as root
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The path of least resistance for many is to use the command line - if you know what file you need to edit, you can do that using a command line text editor.
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The path of least resistance for many is to use the command line - if you know what file you need to edit, you can do that quickly and directly using a command line text editor.
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The GUI offers some choices - my preferred method is below.
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##### GUI
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##### GUI
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![Featherpad Installation](static/img/install-featherpad.png)
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![Featherpad Installation](static/img/install-featherpad.png)
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The Raspberry Pi ships with Featherpad - this is a lightweight text editor. You can open Featherpad from the application launcher and use the file->open menu to get access to files all round the system:
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You can open Featherpad from the application launcher and use the file->open menu to get access to files all round the system:
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![Featherpad Open File](static/img/featherpad-open.png)
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![Featherpad Open File](static/img/featherpad-open.png)
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