Try kb9yig.com. He has a couple of Softrocks that fill the bill. For
US$21 you can get a receiver kit that can be built for any band you
want. For US$67 you get a bandswitching receiver kit. Very complete
kitbuilding instructions and software setup info are available on the
website. One of these was my first surface mount kit, and it was
amazingly easy.
I just read the "dongle" article in this month's QST, and frankly, I
don't *get* it. The dongle itself only receives 67 MHz up, and you must
build a converter for the HF bands. The author makes a lot of
eliminating the requirement for a sound card, but almost all computers
now come with at least 48 KHz sound cards that will do a quite
satisfactory job, so you can defer the decision on a wider-band card
until later.
73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
http://reversebeacon.net,
blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
For spots, please go to your favorite
ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
On 12/14/2012 4:28 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
On 12-12-13 01:51 PM, Wayne Rogers wrote:
I've been watching and waiting for someone to broach this subject. Bob
Nickels, W9RAN, wrote an article in January QST about using the DVB-T
dongle as an SDR. Anyone looked at using this for a spectrum display on
the K3? Thoughts?
I am interested in trying out an SDR and am thinking of building my
own. I don't get QST but I did stumble across a USB style DVB device
in my research of SDR radios. From what I recall, it was of possible
use in receiving VHF/UHF frequencies. That would make it unlikely to
be usable with an Elecraft radio.
You might also be referring to a different dongle than the one I saw,
in which case what I said above may not apply.
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