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Re: Not pleased

Michael.2E0IHW
 

The honourable decision, JR.

Michael UK
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On Samstag.23.03.19 18:15, Richards wrote:
Thank you for the reply, Simon. Ads are one thing - this is another.
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I accept the invitation to leave voluntarily. JR

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Re: Not pleased

Richards
 

Thank you for the reply, Simon. Ads are one thing - this is another.

On closer inspection, it is actually something called LMGTFY - which acronym is condescending urban slang for "Let me Google that for you." Apparently, are are deemed too ignorant to perform our own web search. So, it appears this has nothing to do with Google advertising. Either put a real link or spare us the insult.

Nothing I said disparages Simon's software - I commented solely on the bogus web link.

Nevertheless, considering you guys mentioned expenses ... I am skeptical of any purported claims of generosity. Do the math math on the number of "donations," coupled with advertising fees, and you soon realize this could be a fairly lucrative operation. Consider the case of HRD. With 36,000 current subscriptions at $100 each, totaling $3.6 million revenue in the first year, alone - I doubt Simon "gave" that away for free. Just 5,000 ten dollar "donations" totals $50,000, which is not a bad income for a cottage industry. Add the opportunity for subsidies from commercial interests, such as Apache Labs, just as an example, and ... well ... the should be obvious. This is neither a hobby nor charity.

And that is just MY take -- your mileage may differ. Don't bother throwing me out ... I accept the invitation to leave voluntarily. JR


Re: Bose Bluetooth audio

Joe Puma
 

Yup why should I just have all the fun ;)

Joe



On Mar 23, 2019, at 1:39 PM, Siegfried Jackstien <siegfried.jackstien@...> wrote:

so alexa is also listening to any radio conversation you are listening to???

good to know :-)

dg9bfc sigi

Am 23.03.2019 um 17:37 schrieb Joe Puma:
I have BT’d my computer to my Alexa to listen to SDRC. Sounded real nice. 

Joe



On Mar 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Siegfried Jackstien <siegfried.jackstien@...> wrote:

audio buffers??? rx buffers??

remember sending bluetooth audio takes also cpu time (not much but it is there)

dg9bfc sigi

Am 23.03.2019 um 14:04 schrieb HF Seattle:
The speaker is about 2 feet away and the audio sounds ok from other sources just not SDRC I must have a setting wrong.


Re: Excessive Distortion with RTL_SDR dongle #rtl #sdrconsolev3

Joe Puma
 


What’s just labeled FM in the states? FM (88-108mhz) is called FM in the states. But in ham radio world we distinguish the different FM modes as NFM= Narrow FM, WFM=Wide FM and BFM=Broadcast FM. 

You’ll see it in any SDR app. But don’t use BFM in the real world cause your kid might think you’re  nuts if you're in the car and say, hey put on some BFM radio, let’s hear some tunes.  

73
Joe
KD2NFC 


On Mar 23, 2019, at 12:32 PM, n6szc via Groups.Io <n6szc@...> wrote:

William, I was having the same problem, so I kept messing with the buttons until I got it to work. Seems it was a labeling issue on the buttons.  If you want to listen to local FM, select the BFM button, Broadcast FM.  I kept wondering what BFM was since in the States it's just labeled FM.  Anyway,  sorry for being long winded.  Select the BFM button and should take care of the problem.  73.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:07, williamfitchturner@...
SDR Console Version: 3.0.6
SDR HW: SRL-SDR.com V3 dongle (RTL2832U)
Computer: Lenovo Thinkpad, Windows 10
Default BW: 2.4 MHz

I recently installed SDR Console and I really like the interface. So far, it seems to have everything that I like about SDR# but it's way cleaner and less fiddly. It even has support for satellite tracking! Unfortunately, the audio that I get from the software when listening to FM sounds super overdriven. It sounds like the gain is turned up all the way all the time. I messed around with the gain feature in the setup page before realizing that it only provides an offset for the graphs and doesn't adjust the sound at all. I've tried turning the gain all the way down and it still sounds distorted, just a little bit quieter. AGC on/off doesn't seem to make a difference either. When I adjust the gain, the spectrum and waterfall plots scale down accordingly but, the volume indicator on the top left still shows that the signal is peaking constantly (see picture). 

I have updated all drivers/software/OS on my laptop. I've tested SDR# and GNURadio and they both work really well. GQRX seems to have a different issue related to the VB-Cable software; not sure what that's about. At any rate, I this problem seems to only be affecting SDR Console. I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks


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Re: Bose Bluetooth audio

Siegfried Jackstien
 

so alexa is also listening to any radio conversation you are listening to???

good to know :-)

dg9bfc sigi

Am 23.03.2019 um 17:37 schrieb Joe Puma:

I have BT’d my computer to my Alexa to listen to SDRC. Sounded real nice. 

Joe



On Mar 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Siegfried Jackstien <siegfried.jackstien@...> wrote:

audio buffers??? rx buffers??

remember sending bluetooth audio takes also cpu time (not much but it is there)

dg9bfc sigi

Am 23.03.2019 um 14:04 schrieb HF Seattle:
The speaker is about 2 feet away and the audio sounds ok from other sources just not SDRC I must have a setting wrong.


Re: Lime SDR Gain settings in V3.0.6

Simon Brown
 

Hi,

 

Click the arrow, I agree it’s not obvious.

 

 

Simon Brown, G4ELI
www.sdr-radio.com

 

 

From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io> On Behalf Of sm6fhz
Sent: 23 March 2019 14:25
To: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io
Subject: [SDR-Radio] Lime SDR Gain settings in V3.0.6

 

Hi.
Up till V3.0.6 it has been possible to set the gain of the different amps in the Lime separately. In V3.0.6 I am not able to find how do that any longer. I can set the total gain but not the gain distribution. Visual gain is still available separately in V3.0.6. Do I miss out some button or setting somewhere?
Together with this, in V3.0.6, SDR-console or the Lime, do not remember the gain (total) setting used. I have to re-set the value every time I start the Lime. I have not found a way to make them remember. Any hint on that?
73 / Ingolf, SM6FHZ


Re: Bose Bluetooth audio

Joe Puma
 

I have BT’d my computer to my Alexa to listen to SDRC. Sounded real nice. 

Joe



On Mar 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Siegfried Jackstien <siegfried.jackstien@...> wrote:

audio buffers??? rx buffers??

remember sending bluetooth audio takes also cpu time (not much but it is there)

dg9bfc sigi

Am 23.03.2019 um 14:04 schrieb HF Seattle:
The speaker is about 2 feet away and the audio sounds ok from other sources just not SDRC I must have a setting wrong.


Re: ASIO compatibility??

Joe Puma
 

You might be right. If you have ASIO devices on your computer with drivers installed, wrapper included, you will get a driver in your sound devices whether it be via direct sound or some other method MME.  Any input or output audio device configured for windows will show up in SDRC. Make sure you have these devices available in your computer first, if you can’t see the ASIO driver as playback or record, neither will SDRC. 

Like Paul said if the device don’t support the ASIO or the low latency it provides. Having the drivers installed to use your sound card is a moot point. Do you have at least a sound blaster?

My experience with ASIO goes back as far as the 90-2k when I was a hobby music producer using programs like Cubase. An ASIO component was installed to access ASIO compatible devices through windows sound. 

Joe
KD2NFC 




On Mar 23, 2019, at 7:02 AM, Paul White <paul@...> wrote:

Fernando, I'm not very knowledgable about this and hope others could clarify, but...
ASIO really comes into its own with external devices like mixer desks for which the manufacturer writes a custom ASIO driver to minimise USB transfer latency and glitches.
If you mean ASIO4ALL, I think that's only a wrapper based on other Windows APIs (WASAPI???), designed to "look like" ASIO, and not having any real performance advantage.
OK, I'll sit down now and wait for the corrections :).


Re: Not pleased

Joe Puma
 

And like others who like to sling mud on the interneT, he’ll never respond to the backlash with humility. Nothing learned, nothing gained. So sad Richard. 

Btw that’s really something stupid to complain about. A website Ad. Holy cow 

Thanks for all you do Simon.  Hats off to you. 


Joe



On Mar 23, 2019, at 6:59 AM, Max via Groups.Io <d.austin@...> wrote:

Astonished at this post. Simon has spent many many thousands of hours providing amazingly useful and complex software that he charitably makes available to download completely free. Anyone who browses the web for any time at all will know what a paid ad placement looks like and can easily avoid them if they wish. If this is the case then simply do not click. It's only an advert.

Anyway, if you go to Google you can readily completely disable all tracking using the settings easily available. You can use some other search engine to find this information if you need to fanatically avoid Google.

Simple solution. If you don't like Simon's (free) website or the information and software on it, don't use it!

Simon...... well done for the dignified response. I doubt many would be able to be so polite in the face of such a ridiculous and highly rude and ill considered post.

Richards.... it's your post that is unacceptable. Think next time before you type.


Re: Excessive Distortion with RTL_SDR dongle #rtl #sdrconsolev3

n6szc
 

William, I was having the same problem, so I kept messing with the buttons until I got it to work. Seems it was a labeling issue on the buttons.  If you want to listen to local FM, select the BFM button, Broadcast FM.  I kept wondering what BFM was since in the States it's just labeled FM.  Anyway,  sorry for being long winded.  Select the BFM button and should take care of the problem.  73.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:07, williamfitchturner@...
<williamfitchturner@...> wrote:
SDR Console Version: 3.0.6
SDR HW: SRL-SDR.com V3 dongle (RTL2832U)
Computer: Lenovo Thinkpad, Windows 10
Default BW: 2.4 MHz

I recently installed SDR Console and I really like the interface. So far, it seems to have everything that I like about SDR# but it's way cleaner and less fiddly. It even has support for satellite tracking! Unfortunately, the audio that I get from the software when listening to FM sounds super overdriven. It sounds like the gain is turned up all the way all the time. I messed around with the gain feature in the setup page before realizing that it only provides an offset for the graphs and doesn't adjust the sound at all. I've tried turning the gain all the way down and it still sounds distorted, just a little bit quieter. AGC on/off doesn't seem to make a difference either. When I adjust the gain, the spectrum and waterfall plots scale down accordingly but, the volume indicator on the top left still shows that the signal is peaking constantly (see picture). 

I have updated all drivers/software/OS on my laptop. I've tested SDR# and GNURadio and they both work really well. GQRX seems to have a different issue related to the VB-Cable software; not sure what that's about. At any rate, I this problem seems to only be affecting SDR Console. I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks



Re: Bose Bluetooth audio

Siegfried Jackstien
 

audio buffers??? rx buffers??

remember sending bluetooth audio takes also cpu time (not much but it is there)

dg9bfc sigi

Am 23.03.2019 um 14:04 schrieb HF Seattle:

The speaker is about 2 feet away and the audio sounds ok from other sources just not SDRC I must have a setting wrong.


Re: Not pleased

M0ZEH <m0zeh@...>
 

Look out the window I'm coming round to fix your problem.


Lime SDR Gain settings in V3.0.6

sm6fhz
 

Hi.
Up till V3.0.6 it has been possible to set the gain of the different amps in the Lime separately. In V3.0.6 I am not able to find how do that any longer. I can set the total gain but not the gain distribution. Visual gain is still available separately in V3.0.6. Do I miss out some button or setting somewhere?
Together with this, in V3.0.6, SDR-console or the Lime, do not remember the gain (total) setting used. I have to re-set the value every time I start the Lime. I have not found a way to make them remember. Any hint on that?
73 / Ingolf, SM6FHZ


Re: Bose Bluetooth audio

HF Seattle
 

The speaker is about 2 feet away and the audio sounds ok from other sources just not SDRC I must have a setting wrong.


Re: Not pleased

Keith
 

Just use the Brave web browser stops all you are complaining about.

 

73 Keith

 

From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io [mailto:main@SDR-Radio.groups.io] On Behalf Of Jerry Lofstead
Sent: 23 March 2019 12:03
To: main@sdr-radio.groups.io
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] Not pleased

 

Then do not use his site.

 

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 7:41 PM Richards <jrichards@...> wrote:

I am displeased the link on Simon's site supposedly leading to a description of a TONOR brand microphone, first leads to a Google advertisement or search page, and is not a direct link to another web page as one would expect.  Many users intentionally avoid Google's search engine for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the matter of privacy and preventing Google from tracking their every move.  This sort of intermediary link wrongly undermines and co-opts a user's deliberate efforts to avoid the Google search engine.  I wonder whether Google pays a web site owner to inject this sort of intermediate link, either as a form of advertisement or as a back door effort to circumvent one's choice of search engine.

Simon, do you make money of this sort of link?   It is a way of avoiding broken links by spawning a search instead of a direct link to a specific page ?    Otherwise, what's up with it?   

This sort of back door entry into Google's world is unacceptable.    JHR





Re: Not pleased

Jerry Lofstead W3CDE
 

Then do not use his site.


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 7:41 PM Richards <jrichards@...> wrote:
I am displeased the link on Simon's site supposedly leading to a description of a TONOR brand microphone, first leads to a Google advertisement or search page, and is not a direct link to another web page as one would expect.  Many users intentionally avoid Google's search engine for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the matter of privacy and preventing Google from tracking their every move.  This sort of intermediary link wrongly undermines and co-opts a user's deliberate efforts to avoid the Google search engine.  I wonder whether Google pays a web site owner to inject this sort of intermediate link, either as a form of advertisement or as a back door effort to circumvent one's choice of search engine.

Simon, do you make money of this sort of link?   It is a way of avoiding broken links by spawning a search instead of a direct link to a specific page ?    Otherwise, what's up with it?   

This sort of back door entry into Google's world is unacceptable.    JHR






Re: ASIO compatibility??

Paul White
 

Fernando, I'm not very knowledgable about this and hope others could clarify, but...
ASIO really comes into its own with external devices like mixer desks for which the manufacturer writes a custom ASIO driver to minimise USB transfer latency and glitches.
If you mean ASIO4ALL, I think that's only a wrapper based on other Windows APIs (WASAPI???), designed to "look like" ASIO, and not having any real performance advantage.
OK, I'll sit down now and wait for the corrections :).


Re: Not pleased

Max
 
Edited

Astonished at this post. Simon has spent many many thousands of hours providing amazingly useful and complex software that he charitably makes available to download completely free. Anyone who browses the web for any time at all will know what a paid ad placement looks like and can easily avoid them if they wish. If this is the case then simply do not click. It's only an advert.

Anyway, if you go to Google you can readily completely disable all tracking using the settings easily available. You can use some other search engine to find this information if you need to fanatically avoid Google.

Simple solution. If you don't like Simon's (free) website or the information and software on it, don't use it.

Simon...... well done for the dignified response. I doubt many would be able to be so polite in the face of such a ridiculous and highly rude and ill considered post.

Richards.... it's your post that is unacceptable. Think next time before you type.


Re: Recording with Console V3

Simon Brown
 

From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jorge Garzón Gutiérrez via Groups.Io
Sent: 23 March 2019 08:32
To: sdr-radio@groups.io
Subject: [SDR-Radio] Recording with Console V3

 

Hi all,

Is this an'y way to schedule two or more recordings with Console v3?. Being able to do it all night long would be an extremely useful feature for us, dxers! 

 

Saludos

 


Re: So very pleased

Michael.2E0IHW
 

Simon exemplifies the best of the internet
and is appreciated by all of us (bar one...).

Michael, Devon UK

On Samstag.23.03.19 07:58, Larry Dodd wrote:
Simon produces the best software available. It is professional
and he supports his work and is accessible
That is very important. We are blessed to have his expertise.
Thank you Simon.
Larry K4LED

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