hello where did you get the radios from what website? also can I tune with the keyboard? with those 2 sftwares mentioned? if so how> Hank ----- Original Message ----- From: "davidjmessing" <davidjmess...@gmail.com> To: <soft_radio@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:45 PM Subject: [soft_radio] Elektor SDR, Anyone else use it??
>I have been seeing the posts on receiving below 2.1 mHz, modifying a radio, >etc. > > Last April I purchased an Elektor SDR, assembled and ready to use. Their > cost is $139.60. I fought trying to get it work right and found the > motherboard soundcards on the desktop and laptop I had didn't handle the I > Q signals very well. This month I found a website talking about what sound > cards worked and purchased an external USB card and all troubles vanished. > > My Elktor works perfect with Winrad and G8JCFSDR software. I prefer the > G8. I have a selection of Yaseu, Hallicrafters, National, Kenwood > receivers, but the SDR takes the edge over all of them. I noticed Elktor > has a software selectable preselector for $75.90 that just came out. > While mine works well without it, I can see where it can be an > improvement. > > Only reason I poked my nose in here was what others are trying to achieve > by tuning below 2 mHz, I have at the price of $140. I was tuning in the > airport beacons below 540 kHz around 400 kHz. I hear signals down to 150 > kHz. AM broadcast is exceptional, so it SSB on 75 meters, 40 and 20 > meters. Does a great job filtering and hearing the really weak signals. > I am comparing it to the Kenwood TS440 transceiver. Put a bandpass filter > or preselector in front of it, doubt if it can be beat, from what I have > see on You Tube posts of SDR radios. > > There is a learning curve. > > Dave > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
