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Gary Lawrence Murphy garym at teledyn.comheh ... well it may be a waste, but it was an honest waste: it was the cheapest PC-USB FM radio offered on an ebay auction ($14 shipping included) and I'd already tried several USB-cable FM radios that turned out to be completely useless for various reasons, and even wal-mart can't sell a decent FM radio these days for even twice that price, so it seemed like a reasonable gamble, and as it is, I've now (a) discovered the whole SDR phenomenon and (b) learned that I might someday get FM, CB, police and weather all from this one device that as it turns out, I didn't really need because pulseaudio can do what I originally needed. so I'm not complaining, I'm just looking in on wide-eyed naivity bewildered by the great vistas that now open before me :) and now you'll have to excuse me, I'm off to google HDSDR :) On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote: > From what I understand, the digital TV standard here in Canada is >> different >> from DVB-T (I am a complete neophyte at all of this) and so that >> particular >> feature of the device won't be of much use to me, but as for the FM, I'm >> on >> the Ubuntu/Linux GNU platform, so I'm awaiting on the kindness of >> strangers to >> perfect the kernel drivers enough to match the Windows kit performance. >> But >> that's okay, because I'm learning a lot in the process :) >> > > The DVB-T option isn't much use to anyone, because we all bought the > device for SDR purposes :-) No disrespect, but wanting to use the device > just for FM radio is a bit of a waste - you have the Swiss Army Knife of > radio receivers, but you only want to use the corkscrew? > > Just for the record, there are no kernel drivers for the SDR side of > things, it's all done in userspace. This userspace code, developed by > people on this list, is designed to operate under Linux and it then gets > ported to Windows. So luckily for you, running Linux means you'll always > have easy access to the latest userspace driver code, before it gets to > Windows. > > Unfortunately so much SDR software is Windows only, especially the > packages aimed at beginners like myself, who don't know enough about RF yet > to get any GNURadio flow graphs working. > > Personally the best I have done so far is to run HDSDR under Wine, and use > the Linux BorIP server to pass data (via loopback TCP) between Wine and the > RTL device. This allows HDSDR to run pretty much the same as it does under > Windows. > > But of course HDSDR can't quite do FM radio (since it only goes up to > 96kHz), but it does work really well for receiving other NBFM and AM > broadcasts (police, aircraft, etc.) > > Cheers, > Adam. > > > -- *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com* *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/osmocom-sdr/attachments/20120814/7d51548f/attachment.htm>