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New KiwiSDR forum: differences and features
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Two deaths in the family
Both issues, "cable brownout" and lab-grade power supply voltage drop due to current limiting, have happened to me personally and were totally unexpected at the time. That's why they are documented: http://kiwisdr.com/quickstart/index.html#id-power
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KiwiSDR production status and availability
Generally out-of-stock now except for a few here and there and some board-only versions at Mouser. But telemetry reports 75 Kiwis are in final test at Seeed. So more on the way.
@KB8DOA: I have emailed Seeed asking why RS didn't (apparently) receive their order of 5 units from the last build. I can't understand why that situation is so screwed up.
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Kiwi with 2m converter/switch added
Today's v1.427 release adds a "frequency scale offset" field for each antenna on the admin page, extensions tab, "Antenna switch" entry. After updating to v1.427 you must also install the latest version of the antenna switch extension from github.com/jks-prv/KiwiSDR-antenna-switch-extension
When any antenna is selected the new offset values will be used and completely override (and overwrite) the offset value from the admin page config tab. A value of zero means no offset, so the usual frequency scale of 0 - 30 (or 32) MHz.
Any active user connections will get a popup panel requesting a page reload when the offset changes. No offset change is made when "antenna mixing" is enabled because it isn't clear what to do in that case.
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Early demonstration of "channel nulling"
From the CHANGE_LOG file. The user interface is definitely rough, but at least you can give channel nulling a try in this update.
To null, use SAM mode and select the "audio" tab on the main control panel. On the bottom SAM line you should find the "channel null" menu. Select "null LSB" or "null USB". Make sure the PLL carrier is around 0 Hz (+/- 100 Hz maybe). If it's way off then make sure you're tuned to the station center frequency, switch to AM mode briefly, then back to SAM. The PLL should lock.
Use the spectrum function of the new "FFT" extension to visualize the nulling result. It's best to put the spectrum/waterfall aperture mode on manual so the spectrum doesn't rescale on you when the signal is nulling. You can enable the peak detect ("Pk" button) on the WF tab to see the difference. Because the nulling is happening in the audio path the regular waterfall and spectrum signal levels are not effected. Same for the S-meter. And currently same for the FFT and integrate modes of the FFT extension, although this might change.
v1.425 November 26, 2020
Channel nulling, preliminary release
See forum post: http://forum.kiwisdr.com/discussion/2169/early-demonstration-of-channel-nulling#p1
Audio FFT extension:
Rename and expansion of former "integrate" extension.
Adds continuous audio FFT and audio spectrum modes to existing integration mode.
The audio spectrum function is particularly useful in visualizing the effectiveness
of the new channel nulling feature of SAM mode.
Admin security tab: added option to enable/disable console tab access from the local
network. This in response to a few Kiwis that still have trouble determining
their local network address, e.g. when using unsupported WiFi dongles.
Prevent open menus from unexpectedly closing when colormap averaging event occurs.
Update embedded URLs pointing to the forum.