Greetings Greetings, Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky below. http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
I had a quick peek on the units we picked up .. while the ebay seller that we purchased them from does not currently show them on his stock, the following appear to be identical to the ones we picked up -- they key is the e4000 tuner to get the extended received: http://www.ebay.com/itm/White-DVB-DVB-T-HDTV-Realtek-RTL2832U-Elonics-E4000-... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-TV-Tuner-DVB-T-MPEG4-Digital-TVSD-Realtek-RT... Dan. On 11 September 2012 23:35, Robert Keizer <robert@keizer.ca> wrote:
Greetings Greetings,
Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky below.
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On 12-09-12 02:51 PM, Dan Keizer wrote:
I had a quick peek on the units we picked up .. while the ebay seller that we purchased them from does not currently show them on his stock, the following appear to be identical to the ones we picked up -- they key is the e4000 tuner to get the extended received:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/White-DVB-DVB-T-HDTV-Realtek-RTL2832U-Elonics-E4000-...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-TV-Tuner-DVB-T-MPEG4-Digital-TVSD-Realtek-RT...
Dan.
With the e4000 are you still able to use it as a TV tuner or does it only work as an SDR? The info about the unit says it doesn't support North American TV but couldn't this have a software workaround in Linux? Later Mike
On 11 September 2012 23:35, Robert Keizer <robert@keizer.ca <mailto:robert@keizer.ca>> wrote:
Greetings Greetings,
Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky below.
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I have not tried using it for anything except an SDR on linux. I did use the software that came with it (on a windoze 7 box) and scanned the frequencies - but it found nothing. Robert had it working quite well on linux / ubuntu -- even supports >1 unit at the same time. :-) Dan. On 12-09-13 10:55 AM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
On 12-09-12 02:51 PM, Dan Keizer wrote:
I had a quick peek on the units we picked up .. while the ebay seller that we purchased them from does not currently show them on his stock, the following appear to be identical to the ones we picked up -- they key is the e4000 tuner to get the extended received:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/White-DVB-DVB-T-HDTV-Realtek-RTL2832U-Elonics-E4000-...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-TV-Tuner-DVB-T-MPEG4-Digital-TVSD-Realtek-RT...
Dan.
With the e4000 are you still able to use it as a TV tuner or does it only work as an SDR? The info about the unit says it doesn't support North American TV but couldn't this have a software workaround in Linux?
Later Mike
On 11 September 2012 23:35, Robert Keizer <robert@keizer.ca <mailto:robert@keizer.ca>> wrote:
Greetings Greetings,
Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky below.
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On 12-09-13 11:13 AM, Dan Keizer wrote:
I have not tried using it for anything except an SDR on linux.
OK. It's not a big thing as long as I know it will only function as an SDR.
I did use the software that came with it (on a windoze 7 box) and scanned the frequencies - but it found nothing.
As I recall you should be between coverage areas for TV. You can check out http://tvfool.com/ and see what is in your area. You'd need a high gain antenna to get anything. If you double up the larger antenna I showed you then you might be able to get something from the East (Winnipeg) or West (Regina).
Robert had it working quite well on linux / ubuntu -- even supports >1 unit at the same time. :-)
I'm using Mint so things would be in the same repositories. I was just curious if mplayer and v4l accessed the tuner hardware only as a tuner or used the onboard hardware to decode the signals. What are the advantages of more than one unit? Greater gain... Triangulation... Pulling out a weak signal masked by a stronger one...
Dan.
Later Mike
On 12-09-13 10:55 AM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
On 12-09-12 02:51 PM, Dan Keizer wrote:
I had a quick peek on the units we picked up .. while the ebay seller that we purchased them from does not currently show them on his stock, the following appear to be identical to the ones we picked up -- they key is the e4000 tuner to get the extended received:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/White-DVB-DVB-T-HDTV-Realtek-RTL2832U-Elonics-E4000-...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-TV-Tuner-DVB-T-MPEG4-Digital-TVSD-Realtek-RT...
Dan.
With the e4000 are you still able to use it as a TV tuner or does it only work as an SDR? The info about the unit says it doesn't support North American TV but couldn't this have a software workaround in Linux?
Later Mike
On 11 September 2012 23:35, Robert Keizer <robert@keizer.ca <mailto:robert@keizer.ca>> wrote:
Greetings Greetings,
Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky below.
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It's like having >1 radio, each tuned to different stations - you can listen to more than one station at a time :-) Dan. On 12-09-13 11:29 AM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
What are the advantages of more than one unit? Greater gain... Triangulation... Pulling out a weak signal masked by a stronger one...
On 12-09-13 11:56 AM, Dan Keizer wrote:
It's like having >1 radio, each tuned to different stations - you can listen to more than one station at a time :-)
I was thinking along those lines when I stepped away from the computer. The radio equivalent of a PVR.
Dan.
Later Mike
On 12-09-13 11:29 AM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
What are the advantages of more than one unit? Greater gain... Triangulation... Pulling out a weak signal masked by a stronger one...
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On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Robert Keizer <robert@keizer.ca> wrote:
Greetings Greetings,
Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky below.
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I ordered this one, and it works great. But don't order from that guy, as he took nearly a month and a half to get it to me (it says US, but it came from Hong Kong). Now to start listening for some ADS-B transmissions ;) shawn
On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Shawn Wallbridge <shawn@wallbridge.net> wrote:
On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Robert Keizer <robert@keizer.ca> wrote:
Greetings Greetings,
Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky below.
http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
I ordered this one, and it works great. But don't order from that guy, as he took nearly a month and a half to get it to me (it says US, but it came from Hong Kong).
Now to start listening for some ADS-B transmissions ;)
shawn
Helps if I include the link…. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190710546937#ht_605wt_101... shawn
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