IW5EIJ Leonardo, yesterday night showed me a nice App running on Android, named SDR Touch. Connecting the Samsung Galaxy S3 to the RTLSDR dongle will turn your smartphone into a nice wide band receiver. Leonardo is however experiencing an unwanted and unexpected phone vibration during reception. Could not gave him any hint since, I don’t…
Tag: Software Defined Radio
RTL SDR – First steps
An RTL-SDRÂ RTL2832U-based DVB-T dongle is my latest gift. I’ve been introduced to RTL SDR by IZ5XRC that talked to me about this interesting recycling capability of DVB-T Dongles. If you are curious to know, in few words, with a common dongle used to watch TV on your PC, you can easily use it as…
Genesis 3020 SDR vs Yaesu FT-950
This evening at our local Club Station, ARI Firenze, we had a special event on SDR technology and in particular a Genesis SDR has been presented and tested with behind our club main radio the Yaesu FT-950. At the event there were aproximately 20 persons, everyone almost interested and curious. We were not able to…
First experience with an SDR
Tonight I’ve been invited by Franco I5XFD to setup one of his recent toys. A PMSDR Software Defined Radio transceiver. Franco asked my help to setup the Winrad software, having just finished to assemble the PMSDR Kit. This SDR comes in a disassembled kit, and is very small as you can see from the picture….