[RndTbl] RTL SDR Link

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On 12-09-13 11:13 AM, Dan Keizer wrote:
> I have not tried using it for anything except an SDR on linux.

	OK. It's not a big thing as long as I know it will only function as an SDR.

> I did use the software that came with it (on a windoze 7 box)  and
> scanned the frequencies - but it found nothing.

	As I recall you should be between coverage areas for TV. You can check 
out http://tvfool.com/ and see what is in your area. You'd need a high 
gain antenna to get anything. If you double up the larger antenna I 
showed you then you might be able to get something from the East 
(Winnipeg) or West (Regina).

> Robert had it working quite well on linux / ubuntu -- even supports >1
> unit at the same time. :-)

	I'm using Mint so things would be in the same repositories. I was just 
curious if mplayer and v4l accessed the tuner hardware only as a tuner 
or used the onboard hardware to decode the signals.

	What are the advantages of more than one unit? Greater gain... 
Triangulation... Pulling out a weak signal masked by a stronger one...

> Dan.

				Later
				Mike



> On 12-09-13 10:55 AM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>> On 12-09-12 02:51 PM, Dan Keizer wrote:
>>> I had a quick peek on the units we picked up .. while the ebay seller
>>>   that we purchased them from does not currently show them on his
>>> stock, the following appear to be identical to the ones we picked up
>>> -- they key is the e4000 tuner to get the extended received:
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/White-DVB-DVB-T-HDTV-Realtek-RTL2832U-Elonics-E4000-64-1700-MHz-SDR-GNU-P335-/370607013140?pt=US_Video_Capture_TV_Tuner_Cards&hash=item5649e63d14
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-TV-Tuner-DVB-T-MPEG4-Digital-TVSD-Realtek-RTL2832U-Elonics-E4000-P250-/220992182158?pt=US_Video_Capture_TV_Tuner_Cards&hash=item337429178e
>>>
>>>
>>>   Dan.
>>
>>      With the e4000 are you still able to use it as a TV tuner or does
>> it only work as an SDR? The info about the unit says it doesn't
>> support North American TV but couldn't this have a software workaround
>> in Linux?
>>
>>                  Later
>>                  Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 11 September 2012 23:35, Robert Keizer <robert at keizer.ca
>>> <mailto:robert at keizer.ca>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings Greetings,
>>>
>>> Mike was asking about the RTL SDR and where he could get one. Linky
>>> below.
>>>
>>> http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/__wiki/rtl-sdr
>>> <http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr>
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