Pibald

.. I've been pulling my hair out over this stuff

Why doesn't the Pi have audio in? It's a nuisance having to buy a dongle (even if only £2 from China) just for audio input.

AIS - but that's just frutration with trying to verify discriminator output from an old VHF in an area with few, if any, AIS signals. [sorted; I cheated and now have an AIS USB dongle.]

No success yet in getting a Soft AP setup.