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Damn .. thats nice. The area I'm in has so much air traffic and so many channels I can pick up I'd literally have 100 bookmarks on the page. An aviation enthusiasts dream. I was picking up aircraft 250nm away. Damn converter died on the first w…
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No I'm in Canada can't find a thing.. :) thanks for the info tho I'll try back online when there are not others online.
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Is the beaglebone not robust enough to handle wsjt-x style decoding? Just curious. I tinkered with gridmapper and ft8 before which was cool but it was on my PC. While learning all of this it bothers me when I find signals I can't identify or de…
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2 nights in a row now I've been unable to pick up any of the signals which is odd. I check schedules and some of them I should be able to get. But waterfall is empty in those places or covered by a legit analog signal. I pick up the broadcast st…
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Yep takes a little messing around to get it accurate. Fun to watch how fast some of these guys are!
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Yeah that was me asking him to do it. Its way better than nothing! Other than the Kiwi we are lucky anyone is developing this. Openwebrx needs a lot of love like jks has provided :)
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That is sooo cool. (The russian setup) as its exactly what I was trying to do before my converter died on the first weekend. Only difference is I can pick up literally 100 different channels being used at any one time in this area.
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Yeah noticed that too. I had a login to them already so it was no biggy.
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FYI I sent back the downconverter I'm positive its dead. Hopefully he'll be able to fix it or find out what went wrong
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Anyway I'm pretty sure its the downconverter that is toast I did some more experimenting with it yesterday even soldered the power directly to the wire it needed for power and its dead. Yet I plug in my rasperry PI running a spyserver and an RTLSDR…
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Yeah well it is run up a tower with a lot of cables. Its a really poor installation just to get something up while I had the guys climbing. I'm going to move it to its own pole with a g5rv or magnetic loop on the roof. No more mini whips for me. …
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Bottom signal was the discone with no amp directly plugged in. Before when I was at my house I was able to pick up HF off a regular dongle and he hamit up and able to pick people up 1500miles away and sats etc.. So I switched back to the mini whi…
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Log into the unit to see for yourself.
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I do that to clarify the signals. I can assure you this is too clean for this area even with the auto scale on you don't see squat.
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Yeah there is a difference between signals when I switch antennae but not much. Interestingly I plugged into the discone bypassing the splitter that is grounded (so I have no ground) and I'm picking up everything quite a bit stronger including mu…
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Will do. I'll let you know.
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nonono didn't pop the shield. There was the final terminal from the diode that went into the rf chip. I just checked to that. Nope none of that. Was a nice weekend. It was running fine when I left Friday, just had the noise to deal with and I…
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I checked between the middle and edge pin and there was no resistance nor from each inner.outer connection to the actual RF chips. I'll see which screw heads you are talking about. I have a brand new multimeter with a lot of features, just not …
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Any chance you could describe what you mean? From the antenna it has 2 leads and a middle solder point. Have to bare with me, I can follow instructions but have limited electronics experience. I mean do I check it with it powered up? I have a mul…
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popped off 1 diode no joy.. popped the 2nd and....... still very weak even the local AM radio station comes in well but all the bands are dead. Going to check the voltage... probably should have read it all before removing the diodes What else cou…
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Thanks I'l pulling it out now.. been putting out a lot of fires and should have time today or next week
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I think it may be the kiwi.. you are right. I can't pick up squat with it. You said it could have popped a diode? Any chance this is an easy repair?
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There isn't anything wrong with the discone - I plugged it into my pi running a spyserver and I was able to pick up all the air band just fine. It seems to only be weak when I plug into the kiwi.
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Nope nothing - could you guys take a quick look again you can move the config too if you'd like back to HF - I just have the antenna directly plugged into a discone antenna on our tower. I used to be able to pick up lots of HF with just that ante…
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Thanks for the info - I'm positive the issue is the downconverter. Like I said it was working well except that one large area of noise and then over the weekend on its own it just died.
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@jks the downconverter is not plugged in right now its plugged into a whip I put it back to HF until I got some alligator clips. The solder job may not have been too good for the downconverter so I've been trying to get time to resolder it. I'm …
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port 8073 is opened but I can port forward for ssh as well if you need it. Just currently busy on something important and I'll email you the details. The shorting of the diode is completely possible. I've isolated it down to it possibly being ju…
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I've made backups of configs via scp but not the entire unit. Wouldn't the option (in admin tab) to rebuilt rebuild/recompile the code? Pretty sure I still have the card. It came in a plastic container with a micro adapter and the actual micro sd…
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Thanks sig gen is working and seeing the carrier -66. So reset the config to the .orig config and when I go back into the kiwi its still showing the wrong bands even after a cache flush and hard refresh. This is odd!
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I was going to email you the config but @jks but I ran into new problems. I can't get this thing to pick up any signals at this point of any significance. I'm thinking since I didn't touch it the latest update which was a day after it was workin…