$50 Raspberry Pi AIS-Receiver - How to

This might not be the most in depth guide but hopefully it will point you in the right direction of how to build yourself a cheap AIS-receiver from a Raspberry Pi and a DVB-T dongle for less than $50. Follow the steps in the guide and you'll have a working AIS-receiver. First of all, and MOST IMPORTANTLY make sure to buy a dongle with a compatible chip! 1. Check out the following link to see which chips that works: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr 2. Download rtl_ais from github: https://github.com/dgiardini/rtl-ais Follow the instructions, and make sure to calibrate the PPM to offset the internal error of your dongle. You can use rtl_fm from this page and then use rtl_test: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr#rtl_test or Kalibrate https://github.com/steve-m/kalibrate-rtl 3. Download kplex http://www.stripydog.com/kplex/ 4 Set it all up according to the video and you should be fine. You can download OpenCPN for free from the following link: http://opencpn.org/ocpn/ Music: Starix - Paradise (original mix) ? Starix https://soundcloud.com/starixmusic https://www.facebook.com/starixmusic Artwork by Maria Gubar http://limkis.deviantart.com/ https://www.facebook.com/LimKis https://instagram.com/limkis_art/ ? AirwaveMusicTV http://soundcloud.com/airwavemusictv http://www.facebook.com/AirwaveMusicTVOfficial https://twitter.com/AirwaveMusicTV http://www.youtube.com/user/AirwaveMusicTV https://plus.google.com/+AirwaveMusicTV