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Re: [IRCA] SDR Recommendations?
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] SDR Recommendations?
- From: Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:43:06 -0700
Hi Anthony
I've owned an Excalibur for the past two years, and very recently added
a Perseus to my radio collection. Both are quite good receivers. I'm
not aware of any Mac software to run either radio, although there may be
third party software I don't know about.
I've been generally happy withe the User Interface that comes with the
Excalibur. I'm much less impressed with the Perseus UI, but I've only
been using it for a couple of days and may need to give it more time.
I haven't run into the recording issue Nick mentions. I routinely use
the Excalibur to record 2 MHZ sections of spectrum (MW & SW) with no
problems. That's with a quad core (i5) CPU in my PC. The problem could
nonetheless occur with older, slower PCs (single CPU and possibly some
low end dual core PCs).
Bruce
On 7/12/2013 07:29, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of experience with your possible choices
for SDR, Anthony, and none with driving them with an Apple computer,
but a couple of thoughts:
I lurk on the Perseus Yahoo list, and people do you use Apple
computers for Perseus, but I believe it's by running some sort of
Windows virtual machine. You could probably get some answers on that
group, perhaps by first searching the archives.
I seem to recall problems recording the entire band with the
Excalibur, at least using the native software, but I'm happy to be
proved wrong. There are a couple of Yahoo groups devoted to
Winradio, so again you might get better information there.
I've run the RFSpace SDR-14 with little effort using a Windows 8
tablet (from Samsung, not Microsoft), and found the tablet itself to
be remarkably competent for such a low power device, so it may well
have been able to handle a Perseus with its wider bandwidth. But it
has to be Windows 8, not Windows RT!
best wishes,
Nick
At 13:10 12-07-13, you wrote:
I've been considering adding an SDR to my MW dx tool arsenal but I am
a newbie in that area and am looking for any thoughts or
recommendations from those of you more experienced than me. The
primary appeal to me about SDR is the ability to record the entire
band for later searching.
Currently, I am all Apple: Imac, Macbook Pro, iPad. I've been reading
up on and have been pretty impressed with the Perseus and the
WinRadio Excalibur. Are there any Mac users out there using them? If
so, what do I need to be aware with regard to interface and software
requirements? If Mac is out of the question for either of those,
would they work with one of the new Microsoft tablet PC's or would I
need a full blown Windows PC system?
Another thought I had was to initially, perhaps just 'get my feet
wet' and play around with one of the USB dongles I've seen
advertised. Are they a waste of time for serious use? If not, will
any of those work with a Mac?
Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Anthony R Gargano
n2ss@xxxxxxxx
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