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SDRplay is pleased to announce that the RSPdx is now supported by Procitec’s go2MONITOR and go2DECODE software.  Their Comint (Communications Intelligence) software provides high-performance job-based, automatic HF-VHF-UHF monitoring including recording, SDR control, wideband and narrowband classification and multichannel signal decoding – all in one clever tool!

In this article, Tony Roper who kindly performed the necessary development work, describes how well the RSPdx performs for surveillance work and illustrates it with examples in his latest blog: https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/sdrplay-rspdx-with-go2monitor/

Above: The results viewer part of go2MONITOR –   two minutes of HFDL monitoring.

All the red blocks is received data that scrolled through the Channel window too quickly to read live.

In the viewer you can select any of the signals and you’ll be shown the message as sent.

The SDRplay RSP family together with go2MONITOR are a game changer when it comes to cost-effective, reliable and versatile spectrum monitoring.

For more information about go2MONITOR, go to: https://www.procitec.de/en/products/go2monitor/

Steve, KI5ENW from SDRplay will be available to answer questions and run demos at Hamcation in Orlando, Florida, USA this weekend.

Steve will spend time between the Ham Radio Outlet booth where RSPs will be on sale, and the Kenwood booth.    On Saturday 8th February at 1.45 over in the Lakeside Pavilion, room CS I, Steve will give a talk of SDRs and the RSP family.    Steve looks forward to meeting many customers, old and new – it’s a great opportunity for us to learn what’s important to people.

Above: The Kenwood booth

Below: The Ham Radio Outlet booth where the RSPs are on sale

A very happy holiday season to all RSP users from all of us at SDRplay.   We will do our best to support you and any of your friends and family who might receive a new RSP as a gift in the coming weeks.  An RSP1A makes a very nice gift for both the old and the young.  In the case of the old, there are many retired folks looking for a hobby. These are people who way back, long before the internet era, were inspired by the magic of wireless communications. Some may have been short wave listeners or even radio amateurs for a while.  An RSP1A together with SDRuno and its easy to use band buttons is a great way to jump back in (assuming they have access to a windows PC and can string up some wire as an antenna). Among the youngsters are many who by the age of 13 or 14 have really mastered a Raspberry Pi and maybe even getting a bit bored as to what new things they can do with it.  An RSP1A gives them the radio spectrum to play with. The computing community has barely scratched the surface of what cool new applications could auto-tune into relevant signals.

Regarding stocks of the RSPs, right now SDRplay and most of our resellers on www.sdrplay.com/distributors/ have plenty of stock of all three RSP models.  However if you buy direct from our website  then overseas shipping times via courier may be extended both due to seasonal volumes and also additional Covid and Brexit related logistical anomalies.

Here’s an update on RSP availability.  As you may have noticed, we are still not selling the RSPdx direct from our web purchasing page.  This will start as soon as we have completed 100% of all the  committed deliveries to our channel partners and distributors.  (The current estimate is mid December).  Most of the resellers have now received their initial orders.  However, due to tremendous demand, some of them are running out of devices already!  We are working with our manufacturing partner to get more built as soon as possible.

At this time of year, shipments tend to take longer so if you were thinking of sending an RSP as a Christmas present, there are only a few days left. The RSP1A makes a perfect gift for both the old and the young.  The old may be a lapsed short wave listener, radio ham or retired radio communications engineer looking for a new hobby. As long as they have a windows PC or laptop, it’s a small step to get going, especially with the band framing buttons which handle the tricky set-up stages automatically on SDRuno.    The young may be enthusiastic computer-savvy youngsters who could be inspired by having access to clean RF signals for say a Raspberry Pi-based project.

Then for those wanting the ultimate flexibility and the added advantages of diversity tuning, there’s the RSPduo.

This comparison chart helps compare some of the most popular features provided by each RSP

We currently have both the RSP1A and RSPduo available to buy direct on: https://sdrplay.com/purchase/

(You can put in your country and choice of device to see the total cost including shipping costs before proceeding to payment)

For datasheets and more information on all the RSPs, go to https://sdrplay.com/products/   and click on each picture.

For anyone lucky enough to receive an RSP as a gift, the SDRplay support team will be working over the whole holiday season to provide help whenever you need it.

The RSPdx has been very well received by the first reviewers – the response has been extremely positive. However our manufacturer has been struggling to deliver the increased total order for the first production run.

Last week there was a delay caused by a last minute shortage of one of the connectors.  A replacement supply was found, and we are pleased to announce that  production has resumed. Our channel partners and resellers should have their first deliveries by early next week at the latest.  We look forward to opening up direct sales from our website once we have fulfilled all our outstanding commitments to the resellers.

The latest version of SDRuno fully supports the RSPdx: https://sdrplay.com/sdruno-v1-33-released/

We have also updated the roadmap for future SDRuno capabilities: https://sdrplay.com/updated-sdruno-roadmap/

Please remember, the RSPdx will only work with SDRuno running on Windows initially, and SDRuno is needed to unlock the full features of the RSPdx.

Check out some of the reviews by going to www.sdrplay.com/reviews/

As you may have seen, version 1.33 of SDRuno has now been released which goes some way to including the features promised in the previous roadmap update.  The remaining features along with other priority requests are now planned for the next releases as shown below:

1.4

• Plugin API
• Automatic LO adjustment
• Start SDRuno with just wav file with no RSP
• VFO Lock
• Fix SWFM > 50% Volume audio distortion
• Fix Known Issues

1.41

• Improved ini file support (backup/restore)
• Generic Scheduling Function
• Includes upgraded recording system
• Recording of selected signal only (either I/Q or audio) to WAV file format
• Pause Record on squelch
• Improved recording scheduler (multiple entries)
• Ability to create and recall complete receiver profiles
• More levels of zoom for close in signal identification (SP2)
• Save VFO for each VRX

1.42

• Remote operation
• New TCP Server (cross-platform)
• SDRuno client
• Memory Panel updates (if blank use current value)
• RF Gain
• IF Gain/AGC enable
• Scanner Threshold
• Scanner updates
• Lockouts in a separate file
• Statistics logging
• Use memory panel threshold

1.43

• DX Cluster Plugin
• SP1 Band identifier
• Start-up tips
• Custom controls
• SP2 Filter bandwidth
• Up to max available SP2 bandwidth for RX mode
• Band buttons
• Variable band centre
• Bandwidth from a selectable list

2.0

• Cross Platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) x86
• Add Hamlib support for non-Windows platforms
• GUI update – ability to lock panels together

We are pleased to announce the release of v1.33 of SDRuno. As well as adding many improvements and fixes, the purpose of this release is to add support for the new RSPdx.