Funcube pro plus differs from rtl sdr dvbt stick, with 11 filters to improved quality of reception on radio amateurs and satellite band inculding the amateur band 2m and 70cm bands. Telemetry dashboards for all missions welcome to the. For the hardware, david uses a 3m focal plane dish antenna and a 1200 mhz high pass filter. Oct 10, 2017 without the funcube hardware im not having much luck bring up a list of alternative sdr devices. With an sdr, many of the functions of a traditional hardwareonly radio are performed in software, such as demodulation, decoding and frequency conversion. This link is listed in our web site directory since thursday may 23 20, and till today rtl sdr vs funcubedongle has been followed for a total of 262 times. Dr morgan uses his funcube dongle with the spectrumlab windows software, which is a specialized audio analyzer. Written by admin leave a comment posted in amateur radio, digital signals, rtlsdr, satellite tagged with funcube, funcube dongle, rtlsdr. For 2 meter repeater reception, i use a funcube dongle with sdrdx software v. About rtl sdr vs funcubedongle the resource is currently listed in in a single category. Despite being a lowcost 8bit solution it is a reasonable performer on vhf but does not meet the same standard as the airspy and sdrplay sdrs, both of which have a higher dynamic range and greater bandwidth. 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 rtl dongle is the cheapest sdr receiver available today. Hdsdr is a freeware software defined radio sdr program for microsoft windows 2000xpvista7.
May, 2011 it is certianly fun to play with and if you are an sdr fan i would recommend getting one. If the console is running you must restart the console for the changes to be detected. Click for more info rf powercube coming to production in fall of 2020. It is not really practical as a full time listening receiver, but it is super fun to play with and a great value. 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. 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. In the video he tests the reception of radio new zealand international rnzi. Rtlsdr is, i believe, one of the freshest finds in the software defined radio domain. Jun 03, 2011 with better software support and if the price stays near the same, it could become a killer deal for an inexpensive vhf uhf sdr radio platform. The funcube is a cubesat a low cost miniature 10 cm cube sized satellite which is intended mainly for educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics, but has also piqued the interest of amateur radio. Device drivers are already included in your operating system windows. Only minor changes if any will have to be made to the instructions below for use with other software defined radios hdsdr supports such as the fun cube dongle. There are also plans for an educational version of the funcube, that will be slightly less expensive and have less frequency coverage than the funcube dongle pro discussed here.
Funcube sdr dongle overview and first impressions ham. Hooked up the dongle to a discone antenna in the attic. Apr 23, 20 download qthid funcube dongle controller for free. Funcube pro plus differs from rtlsdr dvbt stick, with 11 filters to improved quality of reception on radio amateurs and satellite band inculding the amateur band 2m and 70cm bands. The hid drivers required by the dongle are normally shipped with windows xp and higher. It covers lf, mf, hf, vhf, uhf and l band coverage is 150khz240mhz and 420mhz to 1. Thanks again for making a great teaching tool and sdr dongle, you are the talk of the world in both radio amateur and software radio design. Funcube dongle pro sdr radio astronomy and spectroscopy. Aug 29, 2014 in sdrs these components are implemented by way of software running on a pc or embedded system. Overview software defined radio sdr is a technique for turning a computer into a radio. Checking funcube pro plus dongle frequency calibration against known standards then looking for an active ham band.
As many will be aware, the original raspberry pi had a problem with its usb host stack, for which i released a workaround here. The rtl sdr is a dvbt tv tuner dongle based on the rtl2832u chipset. The satellite is the good old fuji fo29 and the recording was made in jo45kg during orbit 71777. This usb type works with my computer soundcard asus xonar essence stx. It is assumed you have already successfully configured hdsdr to work with your software defined radio. The main category is rtl sdr dongle that is about rtl sdr dongles. Oct 14, 2018 then you are ready to use your dongle with our application. These modes can also be received with the rtl sdr and an upconverter such as the nooelec hamitup upconverter. Es gibt eine ganze reihe an software wie spectravue, sdrradio. Ill be away for a few days next week 19 august to 23 august, so as there will be a short delay in dispatch, im currently offering free shipping until i return if you place an order before i return. Be sure you use the following parameters then go to the funcube tab and enter the frequency.
Downloaded and had sdr sharp up and running with the dongle within minutes. A radio astronomy paper describes the use of the amsatuk funcube dongle software defined radio as part of a radio telescope. There are a couple of different software packages that you can use to run it and it does work quite well for digitial signal decoding. But not just an amfm radio by using the computing power on your desktop you can listen and decode a wide variety of broadcasts. 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. I am using hdsdr with another sdr receiver and satisfied with that software. The fun cube dongle, developed in uk, is already a very clever tool. Individual dashboard installers for each mission can be downloaded here. The most widely known sdr in ham radio is flexradio. Seit 2008 ist unter dem namen funcubedongle ein kleiner.
Folks, today we spent some time with the new raspberry pi 2 and the funcube dongle pro plus. Insert the funcube dongle into the usbport from your computer. All files required for rtl support are now included in the kits. Getting started with rtlsdr and sdrsharp and cubicsdr. Sdr cube quick kit virtually no soldering required, because we did it for you. Funcube sdr dongle overview and first impressions ham radio. Making this post on sdr software as we were discussing it at the club dinner yesterday evening. 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. Ao73 funcube 1 funcube 1 dashboard v1044 funcube 2 no longer operational eseo funcube 4 not yet operational eseo dashboard v1177 eo88nayif1 funcube 5 nayif1 dashboard v1040 jo97jy1sat funcube 6 jy1sat dashboard v1189 updated january 2019 the guidance notes can be downloaded from here please read them. I will talk to you later about a different type of sdr i need to develop which is part of a project that as commercial opportunities if it can be achieved. The funcube dongle also works with windows xp, vista and windows 7 both x86 and x64. Nov 25, 2012 inverted the waterfall tones for a test. 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.
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