Ended up at $200 out the door . . .
When the lid came off – $50 came off the price . . .
Not sure if the former owner had a clue there is such a thing as canned air . . .
Checked it at the pawn shop and it ran good!
Took it all apart and attacked it – used not quite a full can of air – had the sneezing watery eye thing going for about 2 days. Hardest part? Pulled the power supply out and apart – getting the tiny fiddly cover screws for the power supply back in place really sucked.
As I said in the last post – bought this for one purpose – to run SDR-Console and it does VERY well. I stumbled across the software about 3 years ago and kept trying to run it on various computers with no joy. The software actually has DirectX diagnostic tools built in so it can look at your graphics card and let you know how it’s performing. Pretty cool stuff!
This first clip is WSM 650 am Nashville – dark thirty Sunday morning . . .
(I’m running an SDRPlay RSPdx or an Airspy HF Discovery on this piece of software and running the DX Engineering RF-PRO-1B® Active Magnetic Loop Antennas DXE-RF-PRO-1B — love this loop!)
(this clip is with the air spy)
And some 40 meter net stuff – this bunch be shit talking from about 5:30am to 6:30am central every morning – what is fun is listening to the far east HAM stations operating on 40 meters and at the same time listening to far east broadcast stations on another sdr . . .
(the next 2 clips are with the RSPdx)
This is my typical morning from about 3:30am until 6:00am – I listen to stuff from ALL over the world!
Set this up behind me running an Airspy HF+ Discovery on a pi4 – and yes it does get a wee bit jumbled hearing everything at times
The nice part about the sdr-console software is switching between radios – hit stop / pick the radio / hit play – makes apple to apple comparisons between radios easy – all the settings are the same – the speakers are the same – the computer is the same – – kinda helps you do a true side by side comparison.
Of course stuff is never “that” simple – got ready to post this and my laptop shit the bed – LOL – either the battery or the power supply (or both) – so I ordered a new power supply and spent about 45 minutes setting everything back up with the pi4 and pi5. Tried to use just the pi4 – it just didn’t like the load running sdr connect and a web browser at the same time – so the pi4 is being used for sdr connect and the pi5 is doing the rest of the stuff. And I just don’t think there is any chance of porting the nRSP-ST to this sdr-console software – which would see the actual “radio” in it perform straight up vs other radios – but you never know . . .
So for a few days its 5 keyboards / 5 mice / 5 sets of speakers – we’re having fun now – right?
Not being a “gamer” never really wanting something that fell into the performance level of such a thing. Then ran across sdr-console about 3 years ago and figured out I really didn’t want to spend a ton of money on a gaming computer – than ran across this . . .
And it runs it very well – i5 cpu @ 2.9 GHz – 8 meg DDR ram – 256 ssd drive – and the key to it all playing well together – the NVIDIA graphics card . . .
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
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