jks

About

Username
jks
Joined
Visits
35,617
Last Active
Roles
Member, Administrator, Moderator
Points
602

Comments

  • L407 is a ferrite bead on the 3V3 going to the ADC preamp. You could (carefully) bridge those pads over with a solder blob using a small soldering iron. It isn't critical to replace the bead.
  • The part about pushing on the board affecting the waterfall speed is completely bizarre. The only thing I can imagine is if there was some corrosion on the inter-board header pins causing the SPI clock to be intermittent. But that seems unlikely. Al…
  • So a few things. First, kiwid always runs at full speed. To achieve the required realtime response on the relatively slow Beagle it uses a programming technique called demand polling. And that means it runs flat-out all the time. This also means tha…
  • Yes, definitely check the CMC as Martin and the link above describe. Another thing to try: Separate the two boards and power the BBG alone via a USB-A to USB-micro cable and an old cell phone 5V USB-A output power supply (1A is fine). The USB-micro …
    in LIGHTNING? Comment by jks June 22
  • I think there was a discussion about this a long time ago. There are indeed industrial drying machines, amongst others as @studentkra mentions, running huge RF power that cycle on & off to dry wood and other materials. Since they're built as che…
  • Should be better if you restart to get v1.815
    in v1.814,815 Comment by jks June 19
  • I happened to catch it shifting down 1.5 kHz at one point: https://forum.kiwisdr.com/uploads/777/ZONNLSP3NEZ1.png
  • Just like a real computer the Beagle has strict requirements on the applied +5V voltage waveform. But because the Kiwi are being fed by user-provided quiet power supplies (hopefully quiet) there are no standards enforced. As you'd see with a compute…
  • Okay, got that fixed for the next release. Had to implement kiwirecorder camping is a slightly different way.
    in v1.813 Comment by jks June 17
  • @F5AFY Yeah, I see that. Not sure what's going on yet. Thanks
    in v1.813 Comment by jks June 17
  • Hmm. Haven't been able to replicate here so far. Would help if I could connect as admin to your Kiwi and take a look at the log. Email details to support@kiwisdr.com if possible please.
  • Technically it violates the entire spirit of the Kiwi ethos. Why would you spend money on a Kiwi as an IQ generator to drive SDR software on a PC when there are better alternatives for that kind of setup? But having the option is another point of fl…
  • And now SDR++Brown has Kiwi support. Audio bandwidth only of course (for now). Nice Kiwi map integration. I'm still working on "advanced tech" that will make the bandwidth increases mentioned in the posts above more easily obtained. Which …
  • About the "Custom band" fields: SNR measurement uses the waterfall, although it's easier if you visualize it as using the spectrum. All those spectrum "bins", which originally start in frequency order, are re-sorted by signal str…
    in v1.813 Comment by jks June 16
  • Well, okay. But you have to remember the purpose and origin of the GPS code used in the Kiwi project before you go comparing it against a commercial GPS timing receiver. The GPS code is from Andrew Holme's "Homemade GPS receiver" (http://w…
  • I think so. But it's been years since I looked at that stuff. WGS84 shows up a lot in the .h files here: https://github.com/jks-prv/KiwiSDR/tree/master/gps
  • Well, as I said initially, I don't know C#. So I cannot say if this code will work or not. You just need to try it and debug it. I didn't know Python when I started working on kiwiclient / kiwirecorder, which was not written by me initially. I only …
  • You can still use C#. But the kiwiclient / kiwirecorder code will show you exactly what you have to do to use the Kiwi API and process the audio stream that is transported over the web socket.
  • I don't know anything about C# Have a look at kiwiclient / kiwirecorder, written in Python. It does everything you need: https://github.com/jks-prv/kiwiclient If you turn off audio compression you won't have to deal with the PCM coding.
  • Don't ask me "what can I do to fix this" without giving me some information to help debug the problem. I am not a mind reader. For a start, what's your serial number? Post here or email support@kiwisdr.com. I can check the logs on the prox…
  • In the next release I'll add a "custom" entry in the SNR measurement interval menu with a corresponding time field where you can enter the number of minutes you want. I think I can also add a checkbox that asks for each ham band to get a s…
  • I've found the problem. I'm trying to get a release together as soon as I can. But it's much more difficult these days.
    in v1.811 Comment by jks May 31
  • So this sounds like our old nemesis: a marginal power supply (or voltage drop on a marginal power cable) that is causing trouble when there is higher combined current of the two boards together.
  • Another problem: Returning the 503 error causes direct-to-computer/laptop Ethernet connections to fail. This is because we've apparently had a bug for many years in the local IP detection code. This bug didn't prevent direct-to-computer connections…
    in v1.811 Comment by jks May 30
  • It seems DRM is broken in this release. I don't understand how.
    in v1.811 Comment by jks May 29
  • Does your Kiwi use a USB WiFi dongle and not have anything connected to the Ethernet port? If so, I'd like to know as soon as possible if the v1.811 release works with your Kiwi or not. Thanks!
    in v1.811 Comment by jks May 28
  • Okay, I figured this out. It's exactly what I thought. The routine that determines the local IP has a bunch of stuff in it, one of which is a DNS lookup. If that lookup takes a significant amount of time then a connection can come in before the loca…
  • I’ll bet this happens if there’s a delay determining the local IP. Although I don’t know why that would be. That should occur almost immediately. I’ll take a look.
  • No. In the USA ISPs are just vile. They want to sell you a "business" level service contract if you want incoming TCP SYN (and maybe a static IP). A leftover from the old days when the kiddies were all running Minecraft servers bogging dow…
  • Based on the info on kiwisdr.com I'm pretty sure your ISP is blocking all incoming connections. So using the DUC doesn't help with that. Your only solution is to use the Kiwi proxy service which was enabled by default on your Kiwi-2. You can change …