Actually been busy getting the bench where it needed to be – and running over to Hot Springs ( south of Rapid City – not Arkansas ) – got my ex son-in-law a radio or two set up so he can start listening to some short wave stuff. That is more or less in place until spring when he – and his checkbook decide how much of what antenna(s) he wants to rig up on a more permanent basis . . . ( and yes, I’m working on a complete list / tutorial – two parts – random wire then a loop type antenna ) ( random wire antenna is pretty straight forward – more of a nuts and bolts thing / there are a lot of loops out there – the install is more or less the same for all of them – the hardest part is which one?? – I went the buy once cry once route when I upgraded from the MLA30+ – and quite pleased with the performance of the DX Engineering RF-PRO-1B – YAMMV – LOL! )
The right and center monitors are running off of these two computers –
SDR# software installed and running on both so I can compare different SDR’s to each other – the SDR# software install on the little one is tweaked out just about perfect – yes I know – hope I didn’t just jinx it . . .
Actually getting the SDR# software on the larger computer dialed in pretty close – when I swap the Airspy Discovery over to it there are still some differences – but I’m getting closer with it.
The larger one – center monitor – I am in the process of installing different SDR software programs on so I can get an idea of what the different “flavors” do differently – HDSDR is not liking what I am trying to do – sound card issues – but I’ll keep hacking away at it and I hope to eventually get it going WITHOUT bricking the computer – LOL!
The left monitor is what I was using my laptop for ( repurposing the laptop into a “portable” sdr ) – looking up stations and different stuff while I am running SDR’s – I took what was a “spare” monitor and replaced the laptop with . . .
. . . through the magic of stick on velcro and Best Buy – and the fact that I just didn’t want yet another refurb from amazonia I picked this up . . .
Let me guess Bruce – you are going to try an all in one computer / monitor / SDR setup running a Pi4?
Well now that you mention it . . .
There is a ton of stuff out there to work with to do just this task – so it should not be too difficult to get it ( SDR ) going – yeah right . . .
The whole affair shouldn’t be too bad – there is a lot of helpful sites out the to help configure the OS for sound – like this for one . . .
The majority of the time the Pi box will be used for station look ups – frequency look ups and such – but – if I want to run three separate radios at a time, well . . .
Right now I can use the large desktop computer to run an SDR and do other tasks – it will be interesting to see what the Pi4 will be able to do as far as multi-tasking . . .
Things should slow down some as winter creeps in – or drops in like a load of bricks – got the little ghosts and goblins all topped off with candy last night. Curtis and Oliver were having a good time – all the little hoomans came to see them – they never quite understood the costume thing – the little hoomans smelled right but looked strange – but they had fun anyway!
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