The FM signal on 29.850MHz Is an alias from 34MHz, the traffic is the Turkish forestry Fire service. The signal showing the selective fading on the left is the Ghadir OTHR from Iran and the two diagnonal sweeps are the ionosonde from near RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
Hi, I subscribed to your channel. Just a question... On the 60 meter band there is a wide bandwith transmission that sounds like a ringing bell, it covers from 5.350 to 5.380 more or less. Do you know what it is? We thought that it could be an OTHR, but maybe it is some kind of digital transmission, it is all over the ham band in Spain which is quite narrow.
13 minutes in @tech Minds says that SDR Console only lets you go up to 32MHz bandwidth, it does go all the way up to the maximum of 64MHz if you go to "Options" under the "Radio" section of the left hand side controls (While the SDR is running). In there, there is an option to change the "Sampling frequency" to 128 MSPS. Turn the radio off, then on again using the button on the top left and then using the bandwidth dropdown chose 64MHz. My radio is running quite nicely on my laptop at the full 64MHz.
It seems like very nice advanced SDR. I think I need to work up to the higher end units, since I am just starting out and have very limited income. A dual antenna unit sounds great for serious users. I hope to get a basic unit up for Xmas. Thanks for giving me something to aspire to.
I wish you all the best with it! You may learn right away the appliances that have 'switching power supplies' that make A.M. hash/noise. You'll probably experiment with which way to lay an antenna wire for directional receiving, too. You may want to keep a small journal of what you hear day to day, so you can catch the same radio shows the same time daily/weekly. Again, all the best & congratulations. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
bought mine about a year ago. not long after justin demonstrated it. my 2 year old hp x360 laptop with an i7 10th gen and intel gpu wouldnt run this at anything more then 1 mhz. ended up buying a new asus rog with a 12gen i7 and a 3650 gpu
Geez Mat, what kind of review is this? I want to hear the full spread! In 1KHz intervals! And I want it now!!! I'm kidding. Just thought I'd beat them to it, lol. Anyway, cool video. Very neat little SDR. Not a half bad price, either. If I didn't have my HackRF, I might be looking into one of those. The heatsinks are nice, though I don't know how much they will do as they aren't directly in contact with anything other than the two rather thick TIM pads. Most of the heat they see is what radiates to the case and works its way around to them. That said, it's not like they're hurting anything being there, and it will help evacuate a bit more heat than what it normally would with just a slab sided case. But it is really neat bit of kit with a pretty healthy chunk of bandwidth. I may look into one anyway, lol. Thanks for the video, great stuff as always.
Well is about 230€ on Aliexpress... Is it better than RSPdx? I don't think so, but it's advantage is the 64 MHz bandwidth for HF (for whoever needs it)
About a month after your comment, Redditor HorrorFrank wrote: "RX888 MkII is an amazing SDR and even seems to rival the RspDX in terms of audio quality and gain control if not being superior!" Testing with FT8, he was able to log a few more countries in grid tracker in 4 hours with the RX-888 MKII than in 5 hours with the RSPdx starting at the same time of day.
SDR++ official releases do not support the RX888. It won't be supported until the manufacturers release a real library/driver for it. It's an issue if you run Linux.
I would much rather have to deal with a normal USB 3.1 port and even an auxiliary power plug if I had to then to rely on a somewhat elusive USB port design that for the most part a lot of stuff is refusing to use. Not to mention if crap ever hit the fan trying to find another USB connector to connect to that if the one that you have happens to break you're pretty much screwed. I just don't understand people when they design stuff like this not thinking about using common off-the-shelf cables instead of something that's practically proprietary as far as ease of locating in a SHTF scenario.
nothing elusive about this connector. cables are cheap enough and the good thing about it is its very stout. buy a 3 pack on amazon. 2 for spares if you are that worried about it
Thanks there aren't many good videos in the rx888 mkii. But you didn't show the see all ham bands at once, see all the FT8 in all of the hf band and the see all shortware broadcast bands at once. By see I mean it opens a separate window broken up with a boxes for each separate spectrum display for each band. Also you can open up another window and define up to 24 seperate receivers from across the whole hf spectrum. You can individually mute and unmute them. Not sure how useful that is with one human listening. Also with the large spectrum display you can see frequency sweeping signals like ionosonde. This appears in two places in this video
Done. I'm not a content maker. But you can see it working. I have local RFI from Ethernet of Mains Power. And the antenna are resonant on 40m and 20m (I switch back and forth)
Best to watch one of my latest videos where I elaborate more on receiving the whole 64MHz. I also posted in the comments on that new video my current PC specs. I have a different computer now to what was used in this video. Thanks for watching :-)
Hi Matt. Thanks. I ordered this one. Do you have an alternative site for the drivers. Seems to be archived. Or can you send the zip file? Thanks in advance.
YES...correct ....64MHz is VHF but where they need to up convert hence new antenna port. The V port also covers UHF and SHF so it is also "badly" labelled ....should maybe be L and H LOW (for up to 64 Meg) and H for HIGH > 64 Meg. I have an AirSpy discovery HF cost me more but I'm a bit "gun shy" with cheaper dongles hence this video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_NwFCT98CsI.html Here is my AirSpy video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mx1dD_GV1nU.html
@@TechMindsOfficial Cats are always welcome in radio shacks, specially when they sit on the PTT button on the desk, making frequency users very happy..
Don't waste your money. This device is an unstable and unsupported turd. It overheats, locks up, the bias-T doesn't work for more than 2 minutes before overloading and turning off. All of these issues require a reset of the device. Though the RTL-SDR V4 is not as sensitive as the RX888, there are no such issues with it.
@@AceBlaggardI totally Agree just do your homework first. I use reputable dealers on Alie. Opensource SDR etc.. They have telegram groups with ace support. Always read the reviews. If it sounds to good to be true it usually is, is my advice to anyone.
Great product. Interested in buying it but it's close to $300 Canadian with exchange and shipping. Ridiculous actually. Might look into the RSPdx instead. Every ham product is double the price if your a Canadian....
Would it have been better if the unit connected to your computer via the router so you can access the RX888 from anywhere in the house over WIFI. but the RX888 would need a LAN interface.
I had a look at the link for the drivers for this SDR, but I didn't see a Windows 11 driver listed. Can anyone confirm that the Windows 10 driver would work on a Windows 11 machine?
Great video!! Truly inspired by this receiver and awaiting your second review on the higher bands to decide whether it would be a good addition to my shack. Thanks again for all you do! 73
The truth is that the RX888 MK2 is not compatible with SDR++ nor SDR#, I didn't find anything about that. It works great with HDSDR and Console, but I prefer HDSDR because it is lighter to process. I see the RX888 as an excellent SDR, but it's clear to me that its manufacturer is lazy. It is a total disregard for the consumer that the manufacturer does not provide libraries for LINUX and MAC or even makes it compatible with the most used software such as SDR# and SDR++, so the product loses competitiveness and lags behind cheaper and simpler models. I love SDR receivers, I have a few models, but by far the best is the 14bit RSP1A, the SDplay software is unbeatable because the manufacturer pays a lot of attention to the product, including making it compatible with other software to the customer's taste, this does not happen with the RX888 which in my opinion is much superior in terms of sensitivity to the RSP1A, but loses out as it has almost no compatibility with any popular software. I hope the manufacturer wakes up in time to save him. :(
It definitely is compatible with SDR Sharp, at least up until V1732 as I've been using that combo since the MK2 first appeared on the market. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ux4L5VI-U70.html RX888MK2 on the left, RSP1A on the right.
So I just got mine, but the device shows up as "Unknown device", not as Westbridge. Installing the driver as shown in the video does nothing, even after rebooting.
Aaaand I had to enable "show hidden devices" in device manager, find the cypress device, and update the driver to the one from the website. Then it started working.
Unfortunately I get very choppy audio, and using hdsdr does not work at all as the extio plugin just does not see the device. Tried different USB ports, no joy.