YouTube Vishal reviews the RSP1B, showing HF performance examples
In this video, YouTuber Vishal reviews the RSP1B and shows a number of examples of signals being received in India, using a mag loop. He also compares performance with a Kiwi radio:
In this video, YouTuber Vishal reviews the RSP1B and shows a number of examples of signals being received in India, using a mag loop. He also compares performance with a Kiwi radio:
Popular Aviation blogsite “Mersey Radar” have reviewed the RSP1B:
Quoting from the review “SDRplay have obviously been very busy in the past couple of years” and “Quite frankly I don’t know how SDRplay have done it for the price”
Read the whole review here: SDRPlay RSP1B SDR Receiver – Mersey Radar
In this Video, Paul, W1VLF shows how good SDRconnect’s Diversity mode is for cancelling signals, using the dual tuner RSPduo. It is a great demonstration of how to use the additional control features provided by SDRconnect to optimise the amplitude and phase settings to maximum effect.
YouTuber TechMinds created this video review of the RSP1B and shows some of the features in SDRplay’s new SDRconnect software for Windows, MacOS and Linux/Raspberry Pi:
In this video, Matt from the Tech Minds YouTube channel, walks through many of the features now available in the Preview 2 version of SDRconnect:
To find out more about SDRconnect, go to https://www.sdrplay.com/sdrconnect/
Elektor magazine have just published a review of the RSPdx: https://www.elektormagazine.com/news/sdrplay-rspdx-review
Over on The SWLing post, a self-proclaimed “oldster” who prefers knobs and switches, tries out an SDR for the first time – the RSPdx – and he writes: “To use a metaphor, if you conceive of a conventional shortwave receiver as treasure map which you use to search for hidden on-the-air treasures, the RSPdx is like ground-penetrating radar. Instead of seeking active stations by tuning across the spectrum, you can see all the active signals in a band displayed as peaks. Just use your cursor to float the indicator line over the peak you want, click, and you’re there. Move your cursor to another peak, click, and you’re there. It’s quick and easy, slick and fast, and the audio coming through my headphones was very, very satisfactory.”
To read the full review, go to: https://swling.com/blog/2023/02/a-knobs-and-switches-oldster-investigates-the-sdrplay-rspdx-wow/
In this new video by Gilles from the popular Canadian-based OfficialSWLchannel, SDRplay comes out tops with all 3 RSP receivers featuring in his “top 10”:
We just had to show this recent post from Italo, IK3UMZ from the independent Italian SDRuno Facebook group. He has had spectacular results choosing between two medium wave (AM broadcast) stations sharing the same frequency (918kHz) – this video describes his setup and lets you see how well diversity tuning with the RSPduo and SDRuno combination really works so well:
In this video, John Fallows, VE6EY, author of the popular “Making it up” blog, shows HF diversity tuning in action with excellent results. He compares the performance of the low cost SDRplay RSPduo dual-tuner SDR receiver very favourably with the highly acclaimed Apache Labs Anan 7000 DLE MkII SDR.
In this demonstration he uses two active loop antennas separated by approximated 100 feet (30 metres) as he receives a weak 25m band broadcast signal over a 13,000 km path.
Update later on October 23rd: Just after I posted this, John published his blog describing all this in detail: https://play.fallows.ca/wp/radio/software-defined-radio/anan-versus-rspduo-on-hf-surprising-results/
There’s also a great audio interview with John being interviewed on Hamradio Workbench Podcast. John describes Diversity reception and how he sets up his antennas. He covers the difference between array gain, diversity gain and phase diversity. Start listening one hour and thirteen minutes into the podcast here: https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast/hrwb-140-diversity-reception
(Starting at one hour 41 minutes and 45 seconds in to the podcast, John talks about how well the RSPduo and SDRuno do diversity 😉 )
Another great video posted in November: Take a look at this excellent RSPduo demo over on the Italian SDRplay Facebook group – it shows how you can select between 2 HF stations transmitting on exactly the same frequency by adjusting the phase setting: https://www.facebook.com/100001379902566/videos/1209143166582349/