ChrisSmolinski
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How about (especially if we are going to be logging even more things) some sort of option(s) to limit what is being logged? There's already a lot of stuff that is superfluous to my needs. Besides the CPU cycles and flash writes, if you log everythin…
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Awesome, thank you (again). Now of course I think of something else... no really, this is easy (famous last words). How about adding some more intervals to the marker rate. When the speed is slow, even at the 1 minute spacing they are bunched toget…
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Pause would be nice, so would the ability to arbitrarily add a marker when you wanted to by clicking a button ("I just changed the antenna", etc) Sorry, jks :smile:
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Perfect! Thank you.
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Thanks jks. The blacklist is useful for other purposes as well :smile:
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Thanks jks! On Safari on the Mac I can confirm shift-control-arrowkey and shift-option-arrowkey works, as does shift key (by itself) and clicking on one of the circled < > buttons. Or clicking on the circled < > buttons with the scroll …
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Yes, I would love something like that. I'd also like some sort of memories feature, so you can call up commonly used frequencies, as long as Santa is taking wish requests :smile:
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Martin, how is the TC2M with respect to local noise pickup? My experience with verticals in the past was that they seemed to have higher noise levels, one reason I have shied away from the since then.
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Speaking of the T2FD antenna, I just put one up the other week. I used to have one several years ago, but it was damaged after some winter storms. This one is 58 ft long, the spacers are 20" pieces of 1" PVC pipe. Fed with a 9:1 balun in…
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Doh! Obviously I need to do a better job of RTFM, or at least browsing the Admin page.
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I'm 99 44/100 % convinced this bot script was the cause of the problem I was experiencing with several receivers not being available for use (since that problem went away when I started to block them). I am not sure if this is related, but the rad…
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Given the rather large number of public kiwis that are exhibiting moderate to severe "OV" indication, I'm not confident that most owners are paying much attention. In addition to the number that apparently don't even have an antenna conne…
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Still fine this morning. I'm chalking it up to the data harvester with their sloppy programming. I certainly recommend folks block them if possible, who knows what other problems they are introducing.
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I was thinking... the problem went away after I blocked the IP address of the user that has been sending bad commands to all our KiwiSDRs: http://forum.kiwisdr.com/discussion/1670/w-f-and-snd-bad-params#latest Related?
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And of course... now it stopped doing it. I even left the admin page open overnight. :) I'll see if it happens again today. Strange, as it was consistently doing it after a few hours.
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I added an entry to iptables on my router to drop anything from that IP address (well the entire subnet just to be sure) iptables -I FORWARD -s 47.88.219.24/24 -j DROP
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This is curious. Ever since I got my KiwiSDR, I have kept an admin window open in a browser, never had this problem. I ran a test, and tried it in another browser, same problem after a few hours. Refreshing the admin page does not seem to fix it, bu…
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I have a splitter with DC pass on one port on the way, so I can get rid of the Rube Goldberg set of RF adapters I have now. Thing are working now that I have the 40 dB antenna outside, but it's still a bit of a mystery to me why I've had such issue…
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Thanks Martin! Off to eBay to look for one!
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I relocated the 40 dB antenna outside, it is currently mounted on the kids's wooden swingset. I have a lot of trees in my yard so any low angle sats are probably blocked: (Image) Very good results, this is with 100 ft of RG6 and powered as I desc…
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Quite possible there was too much signal. I ran another test, this actually solves another problem. I have a Trimble Thunderbolt 10 MHz GPS reference I use with my netSDR. It has a 5 volt antenna bias. I have a cheap 28 dB patch antenna here in th…
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I think that's a great idea. I am not sure if there are some legal or other logistics that need to be overcome. I recall hearing in the past about issues with PayPal and "donations". It might just be something that needs to be correctly …
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I ran some quick tests this morning while checking the email and drinking tea: When I checked the Admin page, I had 8 sats, 7 good. So it did well overnight. This is with the 40 dB antenna in another part of the shack, fed with a 15 ft (I think) RG…
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I can probably rig together something to let me measure the current draw. BTW this is the antenna I bought, it's NOS, looks like the seller has some more left if anyone else needs a high gain antenna https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lucent-GPS-40dB-High-Ga…
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An update... moving the 40 dB antenna to the other side of the shack, so maybe 10 ft, helped. 9 sats / 4 good right now, and I have seen higher numbers. It's on top of a tripod of sorts standing on the floor. Rube Goldberg for sure, but it works. …
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OK, that's certainly good to know. I am going to try relocating the antenna here inside the shack, and see if that makes any difference. Beats going outside into the heat :smile: Thanks for all your help, jks. I haven't given up quite yet.
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As a further test I used a DC inserter to supply 5V to the 40 dB antenna, same results. Or lack of results I should say. No easy way to get the antenna outside without taking everything outside (and did I mention it is going to be close to 100F tod…
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The new 40 dB antenna arrived. I connected it via a short (10 ft) run of high quality RG6 coax with an F to SMA connector on the KiwiSDR end and a F to N connector on the antenna end. Insert hand waving to ignore the small impedance mismatch if eith…
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I have it sitting on a large sheet of aluminum foil as a ground plane, in front of a south facing window.
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Now (1506z) I have 2 sats, 2 good, and am getting 29 fixes/min with 1785 over the past hour. I haven't touched or changed anything, honest :smile: Still far fewer sats than most seem to get.