A video showing the installation of the IC-10 (clone) chipset into my Kenwood R5000, and an initial hook-up to the PC with Ham Radio Deluxe. I mention at some point it cost something like …. Rubbish! it was inc P&P.
ve3cnu.blogspot.com Here is a short screen capture operating DM780, which is the digital communications software bundled with HRD. I’m using a Flex-3000 SDR radio, so there are no sound card interfaces involved. Everything is done via one Firewire cable to the radio.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Hi OM, Thanks for the video! HRD is a CPU cycle hungry program. Instead, I like to use Minideluxe, a small utility that links PowerSDR to DM780 and HRD Logbook without all the CPU demands of the full HRD program
73, KP4MD/W6
Fascinating. What sort of things could you expect to pick up with this? Also, in your opinion do you feel that scanning has lost a lot of its fun because of the switch over to encrypted signals by so many traditionally exciting sources? Such as police etc.
@CelticReject Thanks. Well, this is a shortwave receiver, not a scanner, though it does have a VHF add-in board. I’ve never really been into scanners, I have a handheld one, but I only ever use it at air shows. With the radio in this vid, I listen/decode meteorological fax, RTTY, NAVTEX, Digital GPS, listen to the amateur bands and decode some modes they use (SSTV etc), sometimes the international broadcasters. Then theres numbers stations and other shortwave oddities too.
@Hanglands Many thanks HL.
This is absolut fascinating. Thank you so much, very enjoyable! 🙂 I think next time you got the control over the IRS ! =)
I always have a screw left over when I take something apart.
Nice vid. I own a R-5000 too have have it modified for DRM (DSP is coming pretty soon). I noticed that your S-meter indicates almost constantly above S9. Do you have such a high noise level or is your pc generating that much rfi?
@flexairz Hi there, thanks for watching and commenting. Well, if I just use the PC shown here controlling the 5000, the noise floor drops considerably, but in this video I also had my other PC switched on – the one I use almost exclusively for video editing – and that throws out a heck of a lot of RF noise, as you observed. Regards. H.
Hi mate, did you get this sorted in the end?
@miserableoldcunt No mate, been too busy with air shows and tinkering with barn engines! Ha Ha….. I have still yet to check the cable – which I am convinced is the problem.