benson

VK5QI created some good looking rrd plots as shown in his posts above. Also linkfanel's page with signal-to-noise ratio based scores is useful, but in order to visualize how these SNR values change over time and location I have been working on creating SNR plots in Python for single and multiple Kiwi stations. Now using jks recent addition of up to a week of hourly SNR data this has become a lot easier and quicker than previously where waterfall data had to be retrieved and processed for each Kiwi node.

The multi station plots are for comparison of hourly data. Kiwi nodes have been selected for 4 longitude bands trying to get some reasonable geographic coverage and the list has been limited to 20 of the subjectively "better" stations.

Please note that sometimes the SNR json files cannot be retrieved due internet connectivity time-outs and at times will possibly have missing hourly data points when all channels are in use. In addition the individual Kiwis can be offline for quite long periods as well.These plots are generated with 'bokeh', a versatile Python library for interactive visualizations that produces javascript for use in html web pages .

The plots spanning a whole week do look crowded, but by clicking on the legends any or all bands can be turned off. On the top right corner you will find some tools including (wheel) zoom which make it easy to navigate the plots.

Currently running as a trial on a RP3, you can check out the alpha version on http://sparks.epizy.com/SNR/MultiSNR_plots.html

A pdf screenshot is attached.

Note : on many browser F5 refreshes the browser cache.

Hi Paul,

I am assuming that you have Python installed correctly and already unzipped the kiwiclient package.Depending on how far you got with trying to run kiwirecorder and using Python on your windows machine you can try the following steps.

1. With explorer go to the directory where you unzipped the kiwiclient repository into.

2. Check Python is properly installed by opening CMD and typing python or perhaps python3 in your installation. To exit python type in exit()

3. For the remote kiwi(s) you want to use, have the ip adresses and port numbers ready. 

4. As example here Shannon Volmet parallel transmission is used on 5505 and 8957 and a kiwi receiver in Finland. Provided the remote Kiwi has 2 slots available it will record both transmissions which then show up in your above mentioned kiwiclient directory. In the CMD window type:

python kiwirecorder.py -k 30 -s kiwisdr.oh6ai.fi,kiwisdr.oh6ai.fi -p 8073,8073 -f 5505,8957 -m usb -L 200 -H 2700

Stop the recording after a minute with the CTRL + C keys combination.

5. Once you got this working, have a look at kiwirecorder.py --help to see what else you want to add, like limiting the recording time, add squelch parameters, append a station name or adding a directory where you want to save those wav files.

Best regards, Ben