SDRplay and useable software ?
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:20 am
Hi there ..
I have just received my SDRplay hardware today and so far am impressed with it ...but am now a bit worried and confused.
I am no expert with SDR and previously used an RTL usb stick with SDR# to pick up and decode weather imagers from the noaa sats with a homebrew qfhx antenna..
I assumed wrongly it seems that I could use my new hardware with SDR# but it appears not to support SDRplay ?
Thus I cannot use my existing setup ...
I therefore wondered if a similar setup using WXtoIMG ...Orbitron ...etc is possible using HDSDR ? ....but I'm not sure if this SDR software even accommodates plugins ?
Failing that ..is it possible to get hold of an earlier version of SDR# that _does_ support my new SDRplay hardware ?
Advice on how to proceed would be most appreciated as I'd hate to think I'd wasted £130 trying to get a better setup than I had previously for less than £20 ..
Nice hardware ..but if it is restricted to just radio signal reception without the ability to use plugins for data etc...then is all but useless to me..
links to any tutorials would be appreciated ..as I am very much a novice when it comes to SDR..
rgds
vipersan
I have just received my SDRplay hardware today and so far am impressed with it ...but am now a bit worried and confused.
I am no expert with SDR and previously used an RTL usb stick with SDR# to pick up and decode weather imagers from the noaa sats with a homebrew qfhx antenna..
I assumed wrongly it seems that I could use my new hardware with SDR# but it appears not to support SDRplay ?
Thus I cannot use my existing setup ...
I therefore wondered if a similar setup using WXtoIMG ...Orbitron ...etc is possible using HDSDR ? ....but I'm not sure if this SDR software even accommodates plugins ?
Failing that ..is it possible to get hold of an earlier version of SDR# that _does_ support my new SDRplay hardware ?
Advice on how to proceed would be most appreciated as I'd hate to think I'd wasted £130 trying to get a better setup than I had previously for less than £20 ..
Nice hardware ..but if it is restricted to just radio signal reception without the ability to use plugins for data etc...then is all but useless to me..
links to any tutorials would be appreciated ..as I am very much a novice when it comes to SDR..
rgds
vipersan