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  • I'm still doubting if an NFM roll-off of 6dB/oct (20dB/dec) starting at 300 or 400 Hz is correct though. It seems very severe compared to the 75/50 uS AM/SSB de-emp. Since the Kiwi sig gen doesn't have an FM modulator, and I wasn't able to cobble to…
  • I'm still working on the de-emphasis filtering. I can now do FIR filter design in Octave (MATLAB). Something I couldn't do before and never really understood.
  • I'm interested in knowing how the Kiwi does using Starlink. So please email support@kiwisdr.com and I'll set you up with the proxy service.
  • @fabrys That's very odd. Looks very much like a bug. Although we should have noticed something as basic as that long ago (showing a duplicate [existing] ip address). On the Admin page, Network tab, what is Prevent multiple connections from the same…
  • @G8JNJ No email yet Martin. Please try again. Thank you. Edit: got it. Thanks.
  • Okay, so NBFM/NNFM should control the existing Kiwi passband filter which for FM is a filter on the FM demod input. That's what I have now. I can work on adding a correct de-emphasis filter next. I found the 400/1k Hz FM mod function on my sig gen, …
  • The "clicks" (spikes, roughness or "crackling" sounds) are caused by not having a clipper after the demod. Both CSDR and SDRAngel have this. The Kiwi uses the CSDR demod and I failed to notice the clipper the first time I looked …
  • This is more complicated than I thought. There are two separate passband concepts here. The Kiwi passband that you see in yellow/green on the frequency scale, and in the waterfall etc, is applied to the FM signal with its corresponding deviation. Th…
  • I have a fix ready. But it needs to be tested against real signals which I don't have reception of here. So no software release with these changes until I can test them..
  • I need access to a Kiwi with reliable NBFM reception. Preferably with an open ssh port. Please email URL, port and password info to support@kiwisdr.com Thanks
  • I could add that pretty easily. Is 6 kHz the right default value? (default is of course configurable on the admin/config tab).
  • @fabrys From your July 2022 post, are those unscheduled frequencies for NMC/NMG/NMF (USA) passband center or dial frequencies? Today I added UGC St. Petersburg 2640 (passband presumably) to the menus (no software update needed -- just reload extens…
  • When you restore using the sd card does the LED pattern match what is described in the documentation ? Back-and-forth pattern for about 5 minutes. All LEDs on for about 30 second. All LEDs off andBeagle powers down. After that, and removing sd card,…
  • Good catch. Might want to add your report here (account required): https://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3068 Or on Twitter using tag #drmlog
    in DRM Heard Comment by jks January 2023
  • https://github.com/priyom/dyatlov#legend
  • No, it supposed to do that. The WF min value changes +/- 3 dB for every factor of two in bandwidth (one zoom step). For the same reason a passband filter noise floor gets quieter/louder every time you half the bandwidth. This has the beneficial side…
  • Will be explained later. I am making some general releases without comment because I need to do testing of new DRM code using many different Kiwis due to DRM reception conditions. For example the new Journaline entry in the DRM menu (top right). Try…
    in DRM option Comment by jks January 2023
  • @VK2AAK You wrapped the entire id-kiwi-body element with an HTML center tag? If you're going to do stuff like that please confine it to your own HTML and not spill over into the Kiwi HTML 🙄
  • What software version? There was a similar bug pre-v1.222 fixed over 4 years ago: https://forum.kiwisdr.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1313/dead-bit-of-the-waterfall-fixed-in-v1-222/p1 Does it affect just your Kiwi or any Kiwis you try on the Internet?…
  • I can't believe no one ever complained about this, lol (not surprising I guess given that I spotted it more or less by accident).
  • Almost certainly a switching power supply (wall wart et al) from the looks of it. Subtracting two of the harmonics: 3.426 - 3.411 = ~15 kHz. So you'll probably find a huge RFI peak at 15 kHz on the Kiwi and maybe your other SDRs if they go that low.
  • The folks at drmrx.org are very active and actually upload the station transmission schedule data used by the Kiwi DRM extension.
    in DRM option Comment by jks December 2022
  • Re: R.Kuwait, More info from the drmrx forum: https://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?p=101340#post101340
    in DRM option Comment by jks December 2022
  • KTWR DRM schedule: https://drmrx.org/schedules/drmbc.php?id=KTWR%20Asia Note UTC Sat/Sun/Mon only.
    in DRM option Comment by jks December 2022
  • I don't know if this would be easy or not. But one thing I do know: I need help obtaining some recordings of DRM IQ signals containing data (slide shows etc). KTWR transmits during the middle of the night here when I'm sleeping. So it's difficult fo…
    in DRM option Comment by jks December 2022
  • Okay, I see what Chrome is doing. The Kiwi code does a roundtrip keep alive transaction every five seconds. If 30 seconds passes without receiving a keep alive the client (admin page) decides the server or network has disconnected and reloads the pa…
  • Being able to use <hostname>.local depends on the Alexa OS (whatever it uses) supporting a network protocol called mDNS. It probably doesn't have this. Does Silk allow you to create a bookmark or "home screen" icon (like an iPhone) w…
  • Hi Jimmy, Thanks for your complete and detailed email. It really helps me when people send me the info I ask for. You were correct. There was indeed an error parsing the configuration file kiwi.json We've seen this happen a few times in the past. I…
  • Isn't there an ssh available from the command line in Windows? Failing that, try the PuTTY application. So first try ssh root@192.168.1.151 and use the Kiwi serial number as the password (written on the top of the Kiwi circuit board in the white box…
  • I looked at the log on the TDoA server. Those kiwirecorder failures were indeed generic "connection failed" errors. Most likely network connectivity problems someplace. Everything seemed to work again after a while. I was able to TDoA usin…