I am an 80 year old who has had a love affair with radio as far back as I can remember. SDR Connect is user-friendly, and if I can use it and enjoy it.... I have to give a thumb's up. THANKS!
This is an honest review, I like an honest review. I too am an SDR Console guy. Hard to beat IMO, maybe a scanner mode for console and that would seal it. Regarding sdr connect they are an approachable lot and listen to customer feedback. This primary release they will be taking on board good and bad feedback with the aim to make further improvements (I hope). Cheer n beers
Thanks. I am downloading Connect right now to try out. I feel that it was made for two reasons: The underneath part was to expand outside of the Windows environment, which is good news. The interface part was to appeal to those who complained that UNO was too complicated. Well, kids, all this software is complicated because radio can be complicated. It's just that UNO had most of it on the front page. That is pretty handy. I won't get real excited until the Memory Panel is back, though, or the Android/Chrome version is out.
The really powerful part of SDRconnect is the client / server side. this works brilliantly. I can have the sdrconnect server running and on a portable pc open SDRconnect and connect to the server. then with the portable pc out in the garden move the antenna (connected to the SDRconnect server) and get the best signal. or I can place the SDRconenct server pc out in the garden on its own antenna and then connect to it with SDRconnec on another pc and listen away. the client server side of things is brilliant.
I spotted SDRconnect the day it was released and the videos seemed so simple to follow,so I ordered a RSP1A which arrived this morning.I've been using the dongles for a couple of weeks,but found the apps to be so overloaded with commands that I couldn't understand them.I'm new to this,after spotting SDRweb I couldn't resist getting more involved,although I live in a apartment with no balcony or garden,so I'm limited to indoor antennas.It'll be interesting to see how it grows and hopefully my skills increase along with that growth.
Since you live in an apartment, if you don't have one already, try a loop antenna where you can turn it to help with any noise around you. Take a portable radio and walk around your apartment to find the quietest spot. Then put your loop there. Also you will really like your RSP. So much better than a dongle. Enjoy.😊👌
@@SouthernIllinoisShortwave Thanks,I've set up a YouLoop Magnetic Antenna Loop Antenna in small attic room with a skylight,I figure reception should be better there,although there is no room to put PC in there with it,so I'm having to run about 50ft of cable to the PC,which probably wont help with interference levels. By the way,what channel should I set portable radio to when searching for a quiet spot?
thankyou , favorites & presets are the basic(minimum feature ), Not sure how they Dropped the ball on it, atlest i could to find anyway to save. also cut & paste on the frequency does not work, Some 'trainee programmer'/'intern designed the GUI ', also no support for the dump1090 (which is supported by the RTL SDR family of devices), hope they improve the software soon
Help. It appeared that when you were using SDRuno, that the present frequency was sinked with the database in the upper right hand corner. 7:30 minutes into this video. I have trying to figure how to do that for months. Could you please examine how or if you already have it in one of your previous videos, please let me know which one. I agree, I am not too excited about SDRconnect at this time either. Thanks and have a great day.
Looking at your two videos. I currently not interested with Connect at this time. Not having the mem panel and loosing the ability to filter the EIBI DB by frequency messes with my workflow. The only thing that looks interesting is possibly running Connect from a tablet in Linux.
I'm going to continue using SDRuno and SDR Console for right now. I'll follow and update Connect as it evolves, and maybe it will become not bad. But for now no.
They've been promising an OSX version of the software since 2016/2017 and they've kept making excuse after excuse. They kept adding stuff to SDRUno and saying oh we'll have a OSX version after one more release to the Windows software that we've had for years. This software sucks, screens aren't opening properly, no direct entry, no way to lock the bar in the middle of the band, the reception seems to suck. No way to see what mode you're in from the main screen and you have to go to a submenu to change basic items like mode. This software is pure garbage and after numerous crashes I just removed it, am tossing the SDRPlay garbage.
As it says at the SDR Connect webpage, "the API and hardware driver from SDRplay are not ‘Freeware’. These packages are commercial software for use in conjunction with genuine SDRplay products only." When you purchase an SDRplay receiver, you are also paying for receiver software (SDR Uno and SDR Connect) and support. Because the RTL-SDR is not an SDRplay product, it will not work with SDR Connect. All SDRplay receivers except for the RSP1 should work with SDR Connect. Searching for "RTL-SDR Supported Software" will show you which programs will work with RTL-SDR dongles.
