For your next project, why not combine your passion for software-defined radio with Raspberry Pi? The Elektor Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Kit is a perfect point of departure for SDR and ham shack automation.
Flash Jubilinux for Edison: Debian Jessie to Intel Edison following the instructions here (they are originally for Ubilinux but should apply for Jubilinux as well). We have only tested v0.1.1 ...