World of DXing
The other day I bought a Low Noise Amplifier from Amazon UK. The device is designed by RTL-SDR.com. Inspired by Nils Schiffhauer’s review of Qirx 3.1.2 Beta (part 1 and part 2) it was time to check out the RTL-SDR + LNA + Qirx 3.1.2 Beta combo. Data was always gathered in the same time…
As mentioned in the previous post QT is a great tool to explore the world of DAB. It works well with RSP1A and AirspyR2.However R8220T dongles are not that great with QT. As can be seen in the video below this text there is indeed a big difference in performance between R820T and RSP1A. The…
DAB DXing has become a quite popular niche in the European DX scene. Distances up to 800 km can exceptionally be covered. Of coures a good antenna is advised. I’m quite happy with my stacked Emme Esse aerials. Good DAB radios are not too expensive, but I prefer using SDR hardware like RSP1A, AirspyR2, RTL-SDR…
Today Jan Van Katwijk released Qt-DAB 3.71.What’s new?Qt-DAB 3.71 differs only in two details from the 3.7 version1. for Linux only, it is possible to configure for use with pluto-rxtx rather than pluto, in which case – on selecting pluto as device – the audio output is transmitted as stereo FM signal, augmented with the…
Clem Schmidt today released QIRX 3.1.2 Beta.DAB: an audio spectrum has been added. The audio dropouts problem with RTL-SDR dongles, due to sporadic sample losses, has been tackled.WFM: new stereo decoder and a de-emphasis filter. Tons of small errors cleaned, like the empty small tooltip boxes. Let the installer delete your qirx3.config, because the new…