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November 26 2023 – QIRX 4.1.3 released

Posted on by FMDABDXer

Clem Schmidt’s QIRX 4.1.3 maintenance release has been launched.
Download QIRX 4.1.3 here.
QIRX manuals: here.
Compare V3 vs V4  features here.
Mind: QIRX 4 is not free. You need a licence key.
Make sure you do have your licence key at hand when installing an update.
QIRX might ask you to input it.

What’s new in QIRX 4.1.3? (Abridged from Clem’s QIRX History page)

QIRX 4.1.3
  1. The site names are now shown in the TII tab.
  2. Find the serial number of your hardware in the Connection tab.
  3. The short name of the ensemble is displayed in the ensemble tab in brackets.
  4. An equalizer option for the Constellation widget has been added.
  5. The tone generator in the Options tab now works properly. Handy to adjust your antenna.
QIRX 4.1.3

A “pseudo service”, called “zzz” has been added, showing the unused CU’s of the multiplex.
Symbols in use for the the selected service in the Main Service Channel (MSC) have been added.
QIRX 4.1.3 works well with RTLSDR V3 AND V4.

November 15 2023 – Qt-DAB test versions

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Qt-DAB 6.25 has some issues with RTLSDR V4 vs V3. Yesterday Jan uploaded two test versions on his github page: setup-qt-dab32-6.25.exe runs well with V4 but not V3, setup-qt-dab32-6.V3.exe runs well with V3 but not V4.
See the description on Jan’s page: NOTE ON RTLSDR DEVICES
The “new” RTLSDR V4 device requires a library that is compatible with – through different from – the older libraries. Since there were comments that Qt-DAB with the “new” library was deaf.
For a fair test I created two versions of the Windows installer for Qt-DAB, one with the “old” library (the one with V3 in its name) and a version with the “new” library for V4 versions.
(Of course the V3 supported version will not work with RTLSDR V4 devices).
The versions can coexist, however, their appearance will be the same, after all it is just for testing.

If you happen to have a V3 and/or V4 we’d appreciate your feedback in the comments below (Discussion: Leave a comment) or on Jan’s github issues page.
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November 7 2023

Posted on by FMDABDXer
OIRT

MHz UTC ITU Program + Location Details Remarks km
67.19 1011 BLR BR Radio Grodno/OIRT, Smorgon’/RTPS (HR) // web 1504km
66.98 1012 BLR BR Pershy Kanal/OIRT, Grodno (Hrodna)/RTPS (ul. Gorkogo, 85) (HR) // web 1328km
70.10 1015 BLR BR Radio Mogilev/OIRT, Mogilev (Mahilyow)/RTPS Polykovichi (MA) // web 1755km
66.20 1016 BLR BR Kanal Kultura/OIRT, Grodno (Hrodna)/RTPS (ul. Gorkogo, 85) (HR) // web 1328km
66.02 1021 BLR BR Radio Mogilev/OIRT, Bobruysk/RTPS Yasny Les (MA) // web 1692km
66.08 1021 BLR BR Kanal Kultura/OIRT, Svisloch (Svislac)/RTPS (HR) // web 1342km
68.72 1022 BLR BR Radio Stalitsa/OIRT, Svisloch (Svislac)/RTPS (HR) // web 1342km
69.44 1023 BLR BR Radio Brest/OIRT, Slonim/RTPS Novaja Strazha (HR) // web 1433km

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October 26 2023

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MHz Block UTC ITU Ensemble + Location Details Remarks km
178.35 5C 0737 D DR Deutschland, Heilbronn/Schweinsberg (bwü) 386km
178.35 5C 0756 D DR Deutschland, Ulm/Kuhberg (bwü) 475km
178.35 5C 0756 D DR Deutschland, Baden-Baden/Fremersberg (bwü) 353km
178.35 5C 0820 D DR Deutschland, Aalen/Braunenberg (bwü) 455km
178.35 5C 0823 D DR Deutschland, Kalmit Edenkoben (rlp) 304km
178.35 5C 0831 D DR Deutschland, Ravensburg/Höchsten (bwü) 489km
204.64 9B 0845 D Antenne DE, Heidelberg/Königstuhl, SWR (bwü) 336km
204.64 9B 0845 D Antenne DE, Heilbronn/Schweinsberg (bwü) 386km
218.64 11B 0846 D OAS BW, Heidelberg/Königstuhl, SWR (bwü) 336km
218.64 11B 0846 D OAS BW, Baden-Baden/Merkur (bwü) 356km

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