after update 1.671 no signal [no, probably a damaged attenuator unfortunately]
yesterday a noticed that my new kiwi2 has made an update.
all is working, but i have no signal at the whole spectrum,
smeter is at around S3 and red OV is flickering. i have checked cables, antenna and adapter.
i hope i didnt darmaged it with my cb radio where the antanna is a view meters away.
it should resist this small power ...
what can i do?
i was trying to upload photos, but it did not work (request failed with status code 400)
i hope this is a software bug from new fw.
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Did you read this?
I didn't try the update yet, but I can't imagine that it has a bug which causes total "silence" on RF, as nobody else reported such serious symptom.
i think we have lots of receivers at lots of antennas as ham operators and i never had an issue with other transceivers or receivers or sdrs when i was transmitting below 100W. i would be dissapointed if this very expensive sdr would be destroyed because of a transmission from an antenna next to it - but it looks like ...
Trying to upload photos to the forum that are too large will give error 400.
To check the Kiwi frontend use the self-test cable that was supplied with the unit and follow the procedure here: http://kiwisdr.com/quickstart/index.html#id-self-test