[450] The noise!

[William Knapp / KC1WJ]

Installed the drivers with Zadig.
They installed fine. Dongle still doesn't work. Yes, I rebooted too.


Quoting John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com>:

> It works fine with w7 64 bit
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Knapp / KC1WJ <kc1wj at kc1wj.com>
> Sender: 450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.comDate: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:01:36
> To: <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
> Reply-To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
> Subject: Re: [450] The noise!
>
> I'll try, but I have been reading about there being driver issues with
> Win7 x64 (which I have).
>
>
> Quoting David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>:
>
>> yup replace the drivers with zadig and it should be good to go
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:55 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ
>> <kc1wj at kc1wj.com> wrote:
>>> That wasn't mentioned anywhere.....oops.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> You need to install the custom drivers using Zadig
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: William Knapp / KC1WJ <kc1wj at kc1wj.com>
>>>> Sender: 450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.comDate: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:45:54
>>>> To: <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
>>>> Reply-To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [450] The noise!
>>>>
>>>> I've got the UI working, but the dongle isn't lighting up and it's not
>>>> receiving ANYTHING. Not even my signal on 450.
>>>>
>>>> Bummer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Quoting John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Just letting you all know that you wint hear jack shit on the
>>>>> telescoping whip. Only broadcast FM stations and really strong local
>>>>> stuff...
>>>>>
>>>>> Need to adapt the PAL antenna connector to something else (otherwise
>>>>> it's useless).
>>>>>
>>>>> John
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>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>
>>>>> Sender: 450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.comDate: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:53:52
>>>>> To: <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
>>>>> Reply-To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [450] The noise!
>>>>>
>>>>> huzzah
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:52 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ
>>>>> <kc1wj at kc1wj.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think I have it figured out. There are quite a few online tutorials.
>>>>>> Here's a good one.
>>>>>> http://www.atouk.com/SDRSharpQuickStart.html#installation
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quoting John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These sticks are to receive DVB TV in Europe bill...they aren't going
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> work here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You have to use SDR Sharp and special drivers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dave can help you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BTW Dave...your noise floor is @ -40 dBm but you should turn off RTL
>>>>>>> AGC
>>>>>>> and Tuner AGC with the configure button and adjust your IF Gain
>>>>>>> manually...also the contrast slider on the FFT waterfall is useful in
>>>>>>> your
>>>>>>> situation...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can get much better performance out of it when you do the above...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also can use the PPM offset to get your freq readout accurate. Mine was
>>>>>>> 30PPM off...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>> ------Original Message------
>>>>>>> From: William Knapp / KC1WJ
>>>>>>> Sender: 450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.com
>>>>>>> To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
>>>>>>> ReplyTo: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [450] The noise!
>>>>>>> Sent: Dec 28, 2012 09:13
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What software are you using? The supplied software that came with mine
>>>>>>> isn't working and the manual is in German.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Quoting David McKenzie <dmckenzie at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here's an image of my local noise when pointed at it with the
>>>>>>>> horizontal beam using that dvb stick and sdr#
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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