Thanks for the input, Mark. I love the Perseus interface, but of course,
there's no timer function. I've followed your instructions and will try it
out. Another option is Jaguar Lite....Walt
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Mark Connelly via IRCA <
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:05:10 -0400
Subject: unattended Perseus recording scheduler (HDSDR)
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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