2 new antennas have arrived for my shack. They will mainly be used connected to the USB- Software Defined Radio Dongles. One is a QFH for NOAA satellite imag…
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Testing my EzCap RTL2832U RTL-SDR dongle on pocsag pager decoding. Using a TV antenna. RTL-SDR is a low cost software defined radio. You can buy a RTL SDR do…
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  1. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    Hi thanks! You need to enable the stereo mix setting in your recording
    devices settings (right click the volume speaker in your taskbar and go to
    recording devices, right click stereo mix and click enable). Then in PDW
    under Interface -> Settings, set the configuration to Custom, and the
    soundcard to Stereo Mix. Search for youtube user Croccydile, he has a video
    showing the PDW steps. Also you might need to put up the system volumes,
    and the HDSDR volumes for it to work.

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  2. Rowan Doherty
    Rowan Doherty says:

    What does the little percentage meter in the top right of PDW mean? I have
    a “caution” or “warning” symbol (exclamation in a little yellow triangle)
    to the left of it too. Any idea what that indicates? I thought it may have
    been signal strength.

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  3. Jamie Dean
    Jamie Dean says:

    New antenna time 🙂 Super happy with the Comet and the new QFH for NOAA
    sat imaging. Work perfect with the $10 USB SDR’s. More vids coming on the
    results. Cheers All.

    New antennas for my SDR setup- Mailbag Monday

    Reply
  4. Undisclosed Channel
    Undisclosed Channel says:

    The two values are for the transmitting and receiving frequencies, in fact
    the discone is tuned to receive from 25MHz to 1.5GHz and capable of
    transmitting with a low ROS (reflected power) at certain frequencies, in
    the case of your antenna can transmit on 6m (50Mhz), 2m (144MHz), 70cm
    (440Mhz), 33cm (900MHz) and 23cm (1.2GHz) which are the frequencies where
    the Amateur Radio Stations are authorized to operate. Additional elements
    are the maximum applicable power, 100W, the impedance of 50 Ohm which is
    NOT matching the SDR setup being of 75 Ohm input impedance, the cable
    RG-58/U which is a 52Ohm impedance cable and the gain of 5.12 Dbi
    (isotropic gain) which are slightly below 3 DBb gain. For every 3DBb the
    signal strength is doubling… (very rough calculation).
    Enjoy the new setup!

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  5. Eric William
    Eric William says:

    New antennas for my $10 software defined radio setups. Should be very well
    covered now for many of the frequencies and NOAA wether imagery. Cheers

    Reply
  6. HostileHST
    HostileHST says:

    How well has your reflow setup treated you? I’m the market for one and the
    858D looks decent, but would like a real review on your 898D (not a vid,
    just an opinion more or less).

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  7. Eric William
    Eric William says:

    New antenna time 🙂 Super happy with the Comet and the new QFH for NOAA
    sat imaging. Work perfect with the $10 USB SDR’s. More vids coming on the
    results. Cheers All.

    New antennas for my SDR setup- Mailbag Monday

    Reply

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