Simon browns sdr radio worked as well, and with equal ease, though as luck would have it i tried it on the very day that the free licence key for the program expired. It covers lf, mf, hf, vhf, uhf and l band coverage is. The sale times are now lasting longer,so this is the best time to grab yourself an sdr dongle. Downloaded and had sdr sharp up and running with the dongle within minutes. I select it in the source, choose the funcube dongle in audio input. The big advantage of spectravue compared to other sdr software is that its simple in use and it has very good possibilities in showing extreme weak signals. As many will be aware, the original raspberry pi had a problem with its usb host stack, for which i released a workaround here. Hello howard, i purchased the funcube dongle pro about 3 months ago, at the time it was the latest ver 1. Funcube dongle with linrad, sdr radio, or direct usb input so, i presume you are trying to use direct usb input, but i dont know if. One end has a usb connector to go to a computer, and. Apr 23, 20 download qthid funcube dongle controller for free. Amateur radio hobbyist n4jtcs has shared on his blog his experiences with receiving the funcube1s telemetry using his rtlsdr dongle. With an sdr, many of the functions of a traditional hardwareonly radio are performed in software, such as demodulation, decoding and frequency conversion.
The funcube dongle also works with windows xp, vista and windows 7 both x86 and x64. All rtl sdr compatible devices employ the rtl2832u as an adc and usb controller, but different rf tuners may be used. Covering 601700 mhz, that initial product was developed in the u. Press the reset to app button and the dongle will now be back in sdr mode.
Gqrx is a software defined radio receiver for funcube dongle fcd, rtl2832ubased dvbt devices rtl sdr, universal software radio peripherals usrp and osmo sdr devices. Software defined radio receiver powered by gnu radio and qt. I have tried on and off since i purchased the above to get it working, without success i have reloaded the 18j firmware from you website and followed the instructions all loaded ok. This worked fine using gqrx on both the i5 with ubuntu 14. Indeed, although from the outside it might look similar, its an entirely new design. Funcube dongle pro sdr radio astronomy and spectroscopy. For the hardware, david uses a 3m focal plane dish antenna and a 1200 mhz high pass filter. Then you are ready to use your dongle with our application. Before getting this sdr dongle, i had used one of the cheapcheap rtl dongles, and thought that for its low price, that rtl was fun, if woefully inadequate from overload to filtering to noise floor to range deafness on a 90 grounded, unund random wire and then thought perhaps more money would garner a better. Well i just went to the map65 home page and here is what it says.
It is written using the qt sdk and is available for linux, windows and mac os x. In the paper dr david morgan of the british astronomical association radio astronomy group baarag describes how he used the funcube dongle as the heart of a radio telescope. Oct 14, 2018 then you are ready to use your dongle with our application. Funcube sdr dongle overview and first impressions ham radio. Hdsdr is a freeware software defined radio sdr program for microsoft windows 2000xpvista7. These dashboards are under continual development and the next planned development is to create a single dashboard that will service all funcube telemetry payloads simultaneously. Nov 18, 20 these instructions are written with the windows 7 operating system in mind.
These modes can also be received with the rtlsdr and an upconverter such as the nooelec hamitup upconverter. Sdrradio v2 beta, funcube dongle pro plus win7 64bit. Full coverage of all amateur bands from 6khz through hf, 6m, 2m, 4m, 2m, 1. This is how i got my funcube dongle fcd from here on in working under linux on a samsung n netbook pc using quisk sdr software. Its compatible with many radio reception programs like rocky, m0kgk, spectravue and linrad.
Folks, today we spent some time with the new raspberry pi 2 and the funcube dongle pro plus. First of all insert the fcd into a usb port and determine that it is. The news back then was that it could be used on the raspberry pi to control the fcd instead of the continuously failing attempts at running qthid. Be sure you use the following parameters then go to the funcube tab and enter the frequency. Simon browns sdrradio worked as well, and with equal ease, though as luck would have it i tried it on the very day that the free licence key for the program expired. These instructions are written with the windows 7 operating system in mind. I got an airspy a few weeks ago and i am just blown away by its noise floor and dynamic range. Checking funcube pro plus dongle frequency calibration against known standards then looking for an active ham band. Thought this might be of interest to the readers of this part of the forum, it is a software defined radio in a usb dongle that receives from 64mhz to 1.
Gqrx is a software defined radio receiver powered by gnu radio and the qt gui toolkit. By using the rtlsdr to receive the telemetry beacon as the satellite passes overhead, he was able to use the funcube dashboard software to record and decode and view the satellites telemetry data. Hooked up the dongle to a discone antenna in the attic. Nov 25, 2012 inverted the waterfall tones for a test. This usb type works with my computer soundcard asus xonar essence stx. Note that the bootloader app will show the following after reset to app is pressed.
Theres no need for any driver updates, by design the funcube dongles have been designed to use drivers already shipped with the operating system. These modes can also be received with the rtl sdr and an upconverter such as the nooelec hamitup upconverter. I have used it on a number of computers including some quite old not very powerful machines and with different software applications primarily the sdr radio and hdsdr suites. It was a little fiddly to initially set up but i have been impressed with its performance, it has opened my. Funcube dongle as a radio telescope a radio astronomy paper describes the use of the amsatuk funcube dongle software defined radio as part of a radio telescope. Dec 25, 20 this is the last satellite reception of a series recorded on monday, february 28, 2011 using the funcube dongle software defined radio receiver and the arrow ii handheld satellite antenna. The extio for the older pro can be downloaded from the hdsdr page as described above. Users should remember the that dashboard that was started last, is the one that will control the frequency settings applied to the funcube dongle.
Dr morgan uses his funcube dongle with the spectrumlab windows software, which is a specialized audio analyzer. It covers lf, mf, hf, vhf, uhf and l band coverage. Is it possible to make this frequencies available somehow. There must be something specific to the fcdpp which causes a problem with the i7 hardware, or perhaps the volk optimisation has caused a different bit of software to be used with gqrx. Ever since i got my funcube dongle pro last christmas it has been the main focus of my radio experimentation. Jan 12, 20 if you have an older funcube dongle pro version preoctober 2012, then you can either run map65 v. Hidquery returns 0 error, query device failed this is normal as the bootloader has realilsed. In the video he tests the reception of radio new zealand international rnzi at 9400 khz using a 6m copper wire dipole and 9. May 26, 2011 the funcube dongle pro will be on sale this evening 21. It helps to disable power saving options on the computer used to run the sdr.
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