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Clem Schmidt has just published QIRX 2.1.1.5! What’s new? Better hardware support for Airspy and RTL Dongles. With Update DB the database can now be downloaded from fmlist.org and Ofcom. New ‘Service Tab’. Starting/stopping the scanner starts/stops the TII file logger as well. Other and bugfixes. Read the version history here. Download 2.1.1.5 here.
MHz UTC ITU Program + Location Details Remarks km 91.90 1825 E Radio Castilla La Mancha, Toledo/Cerro de los Palos (CAM-TO) PIE396 PS:LAMA____ 1414km 90.30 1826 E RNE Radio 5 Todo Noticias, Madrid/Torrespaña (MAD-M) PI:E215 PS:RNE_5-M_ 1342km 91.00 1826 E Europa FM, Madrid/Torrespaña (MAD-M) PI:E2ED PS:EUROPAFM 1342km 91.40 1826 E Radio Tentación, Madrid/Sureste (MAD-M) PI:EC91…
In dab-scanner 1.5 the issue of device selection is addressed. In the current setup the name of the selected device is kept between invocations of the program. If the name of the device is displayed by the device selector, that device will be opened on touching on of the two start buttons.
Jan Van Katwijk’s DAB-SCanner 1.4 was published today. The directory name where you saved a previous file is now remembered and based on the previous file name a new name is now suggested. In continuous mode the user can choose which should be scanned or skipped. Double click in the table to chang + into…
My antenna mast (16 m + antennas) needed a long overdue paint job. Colour: wood green. The electrics have been cleaned up and a new casing for motor and winch is on its way. It took me a few hours of grinding, sanding and cleaning and then balancing on a ladder with a can of…
Yesterday Clem Schmidt from Softsyst put out a test release QIRX 2.1.1.5. From version 2.1.1.4 services have been improved and with 2.1.1.5 users can download the DAB database from fmlist.org and one from Ofcom (UK).
Jan Van Katwijk’s DAB-SCanner 1.3 was published today. In the current version, one chooses – after selecting a device – for either “controlled” running, i.e. running a specified number of cycles, or for “continuous”, i.e running cycles until one explicitly decides to stop. In “continuous mode” TWO output files are generated, one with the regular…