jks

Thinking about this some more (because I can't help myself). Higher frequency time stations are more useful because there is more relative frequency offset to visualize. At least when doing a manual calibration and you need to "eyeball" the offset in the waterfall (zoomed all the way in).

But HF time signals are more prone to having junk carriers close to the time station carrier (I've seen this) compared to LF time signals. But the later are not always present depending on antenna and Kiwi location. Hence the good SNR requirement mentioned by @nitroengine.

One thing we do have I remember now is the audio PLL associated with the SAM mode. So if SAM is able to achIeve a lock the exact offset can be determined rather than derived from, say, the number of waterfall bins which at z14 is only 1.76 Hz/bin (1.8 kHz span / 1024 bins). This is why the manual calibration instructions say to use the IQ extension for the ultimate fine tuning of the calibration.

Also needed is probably the more difficult part: Analysis of several different time signals at different frequencies and some sort of voting logic before there can be confidence in a solution.

There's absolutely no need for individual Kiwi's to be downloading from there when it needs to be compiled into a compact binary form as part of a release. The list is huge and fetching it off the filesystem of the Kiwi would break the Kiwi realtime restrictions (i.e. audio failures).

I improved my own Makefile so there's less manual work to update the list.

SDR protection circuit

SDR MW filter

Well, the complexity is a result of people asking for features over the years. That's the trade-off. I try and limit it as much as I can. It's a thankless task, as some people are always unhappy..

The next release will support multiple iframe definitions so you can have several custom entries in the extension menu.

So I'd like to start a collection of iframe URLs that people have found and setup on their Kiwi's. We have the default SK6AW spot list now. And I'm aware of the Blitzortung.org lightning map that the VK3KHZ Kiwi's have. Someone must have one for solar conditions, right?

Please drop a link below to a Kiwi that has an interesting iframe. Or email to support@kiwisdr.com

Thanks!

Found a trivial way to do it. So will be part of the v1.801 release.

Okay, I see what's wrong. Will be fixed in v1.801

Okay, these 5 have been fixed. Others are in the queue.

Anyone else, assuming your Kiwi has Internet access, email the link/URL and admin password to support@kiwisdr.com. It can take a couple hours to fix the build depending on various factors.

Some people have asked if they can try fixing this themselves. If you have ssh access to your Kiwi (NB: different from Kiwi admin access) you can try fixing it. Don't ask about the browser procedure to restore admin page access. It's complicated and I don't have time to walk people through it.

Follow the instructions given in the first post of this thread.

Today we're enabling an auto update to v1.711, and thereby on to v1.800, for Debian 8 Kiwi's with admin passwords starting with the letter "i" through "l". If this is successful the next update will be applied to all D8 systems.

What's different with v1.711 is that it preemptively attempts to repair the Debian package system to lessen the chance of the build/update failing. This is based on the experience gained repairing D8 systems by hand over the last several days.

This update will of course not affect systems already updated to v1.8xx.

Today we're going to try rebasing all Kiwis (except those running Debian 8) to v1.800.

Please be patient. This is a long update as the file cache has to complete a one-time load which takes extra time if your Internet connection to kiwisdr.com happens to be slow.

Debian 8 Kiwis will update to v1.710 which has no other changes except the version number change.

If your non-Debian 8 Kiwi ends up running v1.710 that means the transition to v1.800 failed and I need to look at it.

Starting with v1.801 we can resume with binary updates and get rid of these ridiculous update times.