SDR USB info

[Steamy Moose]

Wondering if anyone here has been using a SDR USB with success? I have only just discovered they are available (bit slow on the uptake)

Keen to hear your thoughts on them.

Cheers

Matt

[chainz]

Yes, I use one and they are great. You can do lots and lots of things with them, decoding, satellite signals, meteors, emergency service, etc. I use mine for decoding pager messages.

Check this site out which is updated each day
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/

[Steamy Moose]

They look pretty good, can't believe I havn't heard about them before! How much would you be looking at for s decent setup?

[Phil]

For a crystal SDR which has a little bit of frequency drift about $20-$40 for a TXCO SDR which won't have any frequency drift anywhere from $60-$80 but they don't drift after the unit warms up making them perfect for static monitoring ie pager decoding.


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[peteramjet]

I use 2 of them:
- one for GRN control channel monitoring.
- one for DMR/P25/NXDN/etc decoding.

I can listen to far more useful things with a couple of $30 USB sticks and an old laptop than I can do with any of the scanners currently on the market - not that I'll be selling off the digital scanners just yet.

[chainz]

I paid 30 bucks for mine, Nooelec dongle

[Steamy Moose]

Thanks for all info so far guys, too many choices!

[chainz]

This is what you want to get up and going

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NooElec-NESD ... 23441b48c8

[Steamy Moose]

Thanks for the link! A mate has just lent me a set up to play with for a while until I purchase my own

[chilicom]

Sounds interesting. What computer specification s and OS is required. Thanks.

[chainz]

You can run them on any computer and operating system

[Phantom]

Well, pretty true... Any of the current OS should work fine! People have had success with most of the windows families as well as Linux and Mac I believe.

I don't think Windows 3.11 would be supported well
I would be fairly certain that you would be working very hard to get it working on the Commodore 64!

[Steamy Moose]

Ahhh the old Commodore 64! I remember playing on the old green screen microbe, games came on a cassette tape

[Steamy Moose]

This is what you want to get up and going

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NooElec-NESD ... 23441b48c8

Wondering what virtual audio cable do you use for deciding?

[chainz]

VB Cable mate

http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm

[Steamy Moose]

VB Cable mate

http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm

Thanks for the info bud, got it up and running tonight. Had some initial issues with the link from SDR to PDW, but all seems good and it's running solidly now.