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- Subject: unattended Perseus recording scheduler (HDSDR)
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:05:10 -0400
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After considering add-on programs such as Mestor to work with the "native" Perseus software to enable scheduled unattended recordings, I decided to give HDSDR a try instead since it embodies receiver control and scheduling inside the same program. (This stuff is "old hat" to some of you I suppose.)
Last night I did three successful unattended captures at 8 p.m., 1 a.m, and 5 a.m. EDT (0000, 0500, 0900 UTC). These were on the south antenna since the east one is presently out of service. Cursory playbacks don't show anything particularly rare. As usual, there were many massive Cubans but conditions weren't auroral enough for total suppression of Lakes area domestic pests (ON, OH, MI, IL) off the side of the antenna. But at least I have a new useful tool when we do get a killer aurora sometime.
The set-up is fairly simple.
Go to the HDSDR website ' http://www.hdsdr.de/ '.
At the bottom of the screen there is a blue "Download" button. When you click on that you get a pop up to save the self-extracting executable "HDSDR_install.exe" to your hard drive (typically to the Downloads folder).
Navigate to your downloads folder and run "HDSDR_install.exe".
Follow the prompts in the set-up wizard and allow the program to install files to "C:\Program Files\HDSDR".
You can open the program but there is one more necessary step, so exit it for the time being.
Go to the Perseus website ' http://microtelecom.it/perseus/software.html '.
On the right side of the page, near the bottom, is a highlighted link "ExtIO DLL for Studio1 - Winrad". Click that. You will be downloading "ExtIO_perseus2v3b.zip".
Open that zip and copy the files in it to the "C:\Program Files\HDSDR" folder.
Go back to your desktop and click the HDSDR icon to start the program.
The scheduler, accessible by the "Options [F7]" button, is fairly straightforward to set up.
There is no formal HDSDR manual but the ' http://www.hdsdr.de/ ' website does have links to various user-written guides which may or may not address your specific questions. The Perseus YahooGroup may also be useful if you get stuck on something.
It should be noted that the software will operate other SDR receivers. Those will have their own set-up idiosyncracies including different ExtIO DLL drivers to get.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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