We are pleased to announce that one of the most popular providers of SDR software, HDSDR have evaluated and recommended the new RSP1A for use with their software:

Here’s an update as to where we are with the software necessary for the new RSP1A.

In addition to the Windows-based SDRuno, SDR-Console V3 preview and HDSDR capabilities already available on day 1, here’s an update on additional software for the RSP1A:

We are happy to report that all the normally supported platforms now have RSP1A-compatible APIs released (i.e. Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, Raspberry Pi and ARM64 )

We’ve asked Josh Blum to pull our SoapySDRPlay changes into his main repository. For now, people can build it from here: https://github.com/SDRplay/SoapySDRPlay

We’ve also rebuilt the Mac version of CubicSDR and that is also loaded onto the website

Over the next couple of days, we will release the following updates for the RSP1A:

ADS-B (dump1090) builds (Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi)

Raspberry Pi Image (v1.1)

Best regards, Jon SDRplay Marketing Director

PS: Our software can be downloaded from www.sdrplay.com/downloads

SDRplay Limited has today announced the launch of a new Software Defined Radio product – the RSP1A.

Check out this special announcement video: https://youtu.be/l_PL–ZQ7hE

The SDR-play RSP1A is a major upgrade to the popular RSP1 and is a powerful wideband full featured 14-bit SDR which covers the RF spectrum from 1 kHz to 2GHz.

Due to its exceptional combination of performance and price, the RSP1 has proved to be a very popular choice as an “entry level” SDR receiver. Since launching the RSP1, we have learned a great deal about what people are looking for in SDR receivers, and where possible, we have incorporated these improvements and new features into the RSP1A.

The RSP1A therefore delivers a significant number of additional features which result in benefits to amateur radio enthusiasts as well as significant benefits for the scientific, educational and industrial SDR community.

Here are the main additional features of the RSP1A compared to the original RSP1:

• ADC resolution increased to 14-bit native for sample rates below 6MHz, increasing to 16 bits with decimation.
• Enhanced RF pre-selection (greater filter selectivity plus 4 additional sub-bands compared to the original RSP1) for reduced levels of spurious responses
• Improved LNA architecture with variable gain. The RSP1 had just a single gain step.
• Improved intermodulation performance
• Performance extended to cover 1kHz to 2GHz with a single antenna port.
• Bias-T facility
• Improved frequency stability incorporating a 0.5ppm TCXO (software trimmable to 0.01ppm)
• Selectable broadcast AM/FM/DAB notch filters
• RF shielding within the robust plastic casing

When used together SDRplay’s own SDRuno software, the RSP1A becomes a high performance SDR platform. The benefits of using the RSP1A with SDRuno include:

• Highly integrated native support for the RSP1A
• Calibrated RF Power Meter with more than 100dB of usable range
• Calibrated S-Meter including support for IARU S-Meter Standard
• The ability to save power (dBm) and SNR (dB) measurements over time, to a CSV file for future analysis
• The IQ output wav files can be accessed for 3^rd party applications

SDRplay has also worked with developers of the popular HDSDR, SDR-Console and Cubic SDR software packages to ensure compatibility.  As with the RSP1, SDRplay provides multiplatform driver and API support which includes Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Raspberry Pi 3. There is even a downloadable SD card image available for Raspberry Pi3 which includes Cubic SDR.

The RSP1A is expected to retail at approximately £76 (excluding taxes) or $100 (excluding taxes)

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We also sell direct from this website – go to http://www.sdrplay.com/purchase/ and enter your country to confirm taxes and shipping costs to your location – the transaction will not go ahead until after these steps.

I would just like to add a word of thanks to all of our external beta testing group, but in particular, Paul Jones, Preben Lohse Rasmussen, Carl Laufer, Mile Kokotov and Thomas Witherspoon, whose real-world testing and impartial feedback during the development process of the RSP1A was essential in helping us make great improvements to the product.

SDRuno release 1.21 has now been released. This release of SDRuno contains the following amendments and bug fixes:

1. Restored VFO button for centring of the VFO on the SP1 display
2. Changed the default step size for USB and LSB to 500 Hz
3. Ham band framing buttons can now toggle on or off
4. Recalling stations from the memory panel automatically unlocks the LO if necessary
5. Bug fixes associated with the redrawing the SP1 display
6. Bug fix affecting the storing of calibration values for the RSP2
7. Bug fix affecting CW Zap and CW AFC if the SP2 display FFT is not a 2^n size
8. Changes to the default settings of the SP1 waterfall display
a. Waterfall averaging (WF Ave) now set to ‘off’ by default
b. Tweaks to the default waterfall gain and contrast settings
9. Fixed missing Main Window Instance value
10. Fixed Windows XP support
11. Auto calibration system now selects DAB sub mode if not selected
12. Memory Panel now responds to Ctrl+W

For the changes in the default settings to take place, it WILL be necessary to reset your registry settings, but please note that in doing this, you WILL lose any stored workspaces. We understand that losing saved workspaces when you reset the SDRuno registry settings is frustrating for people and this is something that we will be addressing in a future release.

In terms of future releases, we have a very long list of requests for new features for SDRuno. Some are fairly straightforward to implement and some are very complex and difficult. We have never before published a list of target features for future releases, but we have decided to do so on this occasion. This is intended to give people an insight into what we are aiming for and is NOT a guarantee that any given feature will be implemented. Please be aware that this list is always subject to change at any time.
If we find that we get a chorus of complaints from people disappointed that their desired feature-set is not scheduled for the current or the next release, then we will not make this information available in the future. We have to make priority calls and whilst we aim to implement everything that people want, we cannot do it all at once. I am afraid we are not in a position to indicate when any of these releases will become available.

Feature-sets for future releases:

1.22 Intermediate update
• Customisable frequency step sizes for each mode
• Option to reset SDRuno registry without deleting saved workspaces
• Scheduled recording

1.23 Intermediate update
• Recording of selected signal only (either I/Q or audio) to WAV file format
• Selected signal piped to VAC in I/Q format
• Addition of DDE interface

1.3 Major update
• Frequency scanning
• Remote Client for network based streaming I/Q server applications

1.4 Major update
• Addition of new API for third party plugins
• Separation of VFO and LO frequency control

Download link: http://www.sdrplay.com/downloads

The ability to make a log of absolute RF power levels centered at a given frequency, and of selectable bandwidth,  over specified time intervals is a very powerful capability.  Even more so, in portable or mobile situations such as field strength monitoring of both wanted and unwanted signals where an accurate, yet simple and low cost solution is desirable.   SDRuno makes it easy to record power and SNR readings as a .CSV file,  as is described in this new video guide: