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Questions from the Tech Minds YouTube review:

Yes, it was designed as "shortwave" receiver covering 10 kHz (VLF) to 30 MHz (32 MHz with reduced specs). It is possible to use a downconverter ahead of the Kiwi to cover VHF/UHF and a number of public Kiwi owners have done just that. See here: non-HF Kiwis

The my.kiwisdr.com page will only show information about your Kiwi if the network your Kiwi is attached to has a connection to the Internet at the time it starts up. Also, that network must have a DHCP server to assign a local IP address to the Kiwi. Try restarting the Kiwi. Our documentation describes other methods for determining the local IP address including decoding the pattern blinked out by the 4 blue LEDs.

The BeagleBone Green we used back in 2016 did not include WiFi. There is something called the BeagleBone Green Wireless, but it is not physically compatible with the Kiwi board. Instead, we recommend using a TP-Link TL-WR802N WiFi nano router which can plug directly into the Kiwi's Ethernet connector and your WiFi network. It requires minimal configuration and none on the Kiwi side if you use DHCP to assign the Kiwi its local IP address. Future products will definitely include WiFi.

@dl7awl Sorry, there was some missing text on that page describing that the new button on the admin backup tab must be used. I've fixed that now.

@ww6d I'm surprised you thought some sort of formatting of the sd card was necessary. That should not be the case. The procedure writes the new Debian 11 image to the raw sd card device (no formatting required). Then afterwards mounts the created partition on the card to write the Kiwi configuration information.

Also, the documentation section you mention "Re-flashing once you have the SD card" is referenced directly at the end of the upgrade instructions (even including a link!) So there should not have been any confusion about this.

Instructions for the Debian 11 upgrade procedure described below are here: http://kiwisdr.com/quickstart/index.html#id-D11-upgrade

From the CHANGE_LOG file:

There's absolutely no need for individual Kiwi's to be downloading from there when it needs to be compiled into a compact binary form as part of a release. The list is huge and fetching it off the filesystem of the Kiwi would break the Kiwi realtime restrictions (i.e. audio failures).

I improved my own Makefile so there's less manual work to update the list.

It's not automatic. I have to do it by hand. It's published every six months at eibispace.de

I see A25 is out, so I'll try and get that in the next Kiwi release.