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Sdrplay RSP1A
All,
Is anyone using Wsprdaemon with an Sdrplay RSP1A? If so, I would be interested in your configuration and if you managed to get it to work with more than one simultaneous receive?
Having got my Kiwisdr up and running and playing nicely with Wsprdaemon, I happened upon a used RSP1A at a price it would be rude to refuse. Main intention is to use it for VHF/.UHF monitoring, but when I'm not around I was wondering if I could usefully employ to add a couple more bands to my WSPR setup. Have a nice Minicircuits 3dB splitter, so sharing the antenna is sorted already.
Ran WSJT-X on a laptop for many years so I know I can do it that way, but in 2020, soon to be 2021, I reckon there has to be a better way than messing around with virtual soundcards, virtual serial ports for CAT control and all that malarkey....
Few thought so far include running on the same Pi as wsprdaemon (but maybe it would run out of grunt), on a second Pi (probably preferable) or on an old laptop (less than ideal). I did wonder about giving the newly revitalized OpenwebRX a try on the second Pi but I assume that OpenwebRX and the Kiwisdr are sufficiently divergent that Wsprdaemon could not interface with it in the same way as it does with the Kiwi..
Anyway, enough rambling. Interested in any thoughts or experience from the group.
Regards,
Rob (G7ELK)
Is anyone using Wsprdaemon with an Sdrplay RSP1A? If so, I would be interested in your configuration and if you managed to get it to work with more than one simultaneous receive?
Having got my Kiwisdr up and running and playing nicely with Wsprdaemon, I happened upon a used RSP1A at a price it would be rude to refuse. Main intention is to use it for VHF/.UHF monitoring, but when I'm not around I was wondering if I could usefully employ to add a couple more bands to my WSPR setup. Have a nice Minicircuits 3dB splitter, so sharing the antenna is sorted already.
Ran WSJT-X on a laptop for many years so I know I can do it that way, but in 2020, soon to be 2021, I reckon there has to be a better way than messing around with virtual soundcards, virtual serial ports for CAT control and all that malarkey....
Few thought so far include running on the same Pi as wsprdaemon (but maybe it would run out of grunt), on a second Pi (probably preferable) or on an old laptop (less than ideal). I did wonder about giving the newly revitalized OpenwebRX a try on the second Pi but I assume that OpenwebRX and the Kiwisdr are sufficiently divergent that Wsprdaemon could not interface with it in the same way as it does with the Kiwi..
Anyway, enough rambling. Interested in any thoughts or experience from the group.
Regards,
Rob (G7ELK)
Rob Robinett
Hi Rob,
There is to-be-debugged code in WD to use the Soapy API to communicate with the many SDRs (including the SDRPlay) for which there is a Soapy driver. Debugging the existing features of WD has kept me from completing Soapy debugging, but I hope to have the time to work on it in the coming weeks.
Rob
There is to-be-debugged code in WD to use the Soapy API to communicate with the many SDRs (including the SDRPlay) for which there is a Soapy driver. Debugging the existing features of WD has kept me from completing Soapy debugging, but I hope to have the time to work on it in the coming weeks.
Rob
Rob Robinett
Wspdaemon uses the kiwirecorder.py python program to record the audio output of the Kiwi channels.
I have no experience with using kiwirecorder with OpenWebSDR
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 8:48 AM Rob Garth <rob@...> wrote:
Many Thanks Rob, I will resist the temptation to play with it until then...
BTW, was I right that OpenWebSDR is too different to Kiwi for Wsprdaemon to be able to talk to it as if it were a kiwi?
Regards,
Rob
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John
Rob Garth
I am following your lead in the same effort to get my RSP2Pro to work 6 Meters. I installed the version 7 PI image on a 8G Pi4. I learned the hard way to not use Etcher to build the image. The new image files have a card builder included. Just run the image download file and it does the build to the card. I have the CubicSDR working with my 2Pro. I see that there are Soapy info included in the CubicSDR start up. I also have WSJT-X 2.2.2 installed but have not found a common Rig setting to get linked. I am off to read the CubicSDR manual now. Poor Rob R has had a "Hair-on-Fire week". I am watching rot a new version of wsprdaemon.
John
TI4JWC N0URE
I am following your lead in the same effort to get my RSP2Pro to work 6 Meters. I installed the version 7 PI image on a 8G Pi4. I learned the hard way to not use Etcher to build the image. The new image files have a card builder included. Just run the image download file and it does the build to the card. I have the CubicSDR working with my 2Pro. I see that there are Soapy info included in the CubicSDR start up. I also have WSJT-X 2.2.2 installed but have not found a common Rig setting to get linked. I am off to read the CubicSDR manual now. Poor Rob R has had a "Hair-on-Fire week". I am watching rot a new version of wsprdaemon.
John
TI4JWC N0URE
G7ELK
John,
By the sound of things you are well ahead of me with the RSP integration. Still planning to give Openwebsdr a try although I need a second Pi for this really,
In the short term I now have WSJT-X and SDRUNO running on an old laptop, with frequency hopping enabled to pick up a few bands not covered by my Kiwi. Will try something a bit cleverer in due course, but right now I'm told I need to tidy the garage...
Regards,
Rob
Rob
By the sound of things you are well ahead of me with the RSP integration. Still planning to give Openwebsdr a try although I need a second Pi for this really,
In the short term I now have WSJT-X and SDRUNO running on an old laptop, with frequency hopping enabled to pick up a few bands not covered by my Kiwi. Will try something a bit cleverer in due course, but right now I'm told I need to tidy the garage...
Regards,
Rob
Rob