The Operator’s Cookbook is a 14-part series of complete, copy-paste GopherTrunk builds — one working rig per part, antenna to browser. Every other tutorial series on this blog is organized by subsystem; this one is organized by what you’re trying to build. Each part is a full recipe: the hardware list, a working config.yaml, the first-run verification (the exact log lines and web panels that mean it’s working), a troubleshooting table, and variations to grow into.

The recipes run from a $40 P25 starter rig through DMR Tier III, two-slot conventional DMR, TETRA TMO and Direct Mode, analog FM with tone-out paging, multi-dongle SDR pools, remote radios over the network, streaming to Broadcastify and friends, a FLAC-everything archival rig, a headless Raspberry Pi appliance, and a two-antenna diversity build — ending with the kitchen-sink config, annotated line by line. The cookbook tells you what to do; The Hunt, Running It For Real, Recording, Composition & Streaming and The Analog Edge tell you why it works.

Every post reads three ways: a TL;DR + cheat-sheet for skimmers, bold headers, tables, and diagrams for the medium read, and full prose with real configs for the deep read.

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