Showing posts with label SDRPlay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SDRPlay. Show all posts

Thursday, August 25, 2022

KiWi's new preamp arrived!

 

High Z Antenna Amplifier
The High Z Antenna Amplifier 
arrived today and I am really excited to try this thing out. It is designed for the vertical antenna I plan to use anytime soon.

For now I will try it on the wire. Stay tuned for results and thanks to the guys from Cross Country Wireless for the fast delivery!


Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Playing with OpenWebRX / Raspberry / SDRPlay

 I haven't been that active on HF during the last month. At least not transmitting a lot. 

Another cool thing I have been playing with is OpenWebRX though.


The setup is as follows:
  • Raspberry PI4 / 8GB / running @2GHz
  • SDR-Play SDR receiver (had also the AirSpy and another RTL dongle connected in parallel but I use them for different things now)
  • HyEndFed Antenna (5m ASL)
The OpenWebRX Software is maintained by Jakob, DD5JFK. It can run on many platforms like Intel or Raspberry. I did some slight mods to match my personal preferences
Decoding FT4 on 30m
 (Like AGC mod, default bandwidth, snap to grid tuning...).

One of the coolest things is that OWRX supports digital modes "out of the box" - It can be used to monitor FT8 transmissions, WSPR and many others. 

It can even act as a APRS gate. Since I don't have a good spot for VHF this would be a little boring here.

If you want to try it out on your Raspberry there are premade images on the website. 

...and this is PSK31
Give it a try: 
My receiver (goes QRT if I operate my transceiver since I don't have multiple antennas)




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