SDRuno, the basics. 

If you have a SDRuno receiver, take 15 minutes and watch this video BEFORE you even turn it on. Then keep it handy as you start using the receiver and refer back to it. It is an enormously useful video that will save you a lot of time and frustration!

I'm undecided about going back into SDR - My dongle is long dead. This Video is very helpful!. Everyone tells me SDRplay and UNO is the route to go and I have a mini-whip to go outdoors.

Wow, thanks for this video. I have ignored SDR. Now I spent 15 min just to see where the tech is at. 👍

I recently purchased my RSP1a and was extremely excited - only to realize that I was missing out on a lot because I didn't understand the software. Your video is very good and you explain things very well. I would love to see a video that focuses on the VHF spectrum, scanning it and how to log or record results. I live near a military base and would like to use my SDR to monitor military frequencies and record or log results.

Mike, I enjoyed this video immensely and learned more from it than most all of the others from SDRplay. It answered more of my operational questions and got me going. I am going to search for more videos from this presenter. I just got my SDRplay Radio RSP1a and Uno Software today. I got it all working with your help. I have just gotten re-interested in Radio for Broadcast, SWL and Amateur at age 76. I had a Novice Class and Technician Ham License when I was 13. I learned my Electronics, Communications and Signal Intel in the Army Security Agency from 1964-1968. I also held a 2nd Class Commercial License in the late 1960’s. Thank You Again!

First class narration Mike. Very well spoken with clear steps and, as a newbie, I’m looking forward to the progression of learning additional skills to tune those signals in. This new series is great and the support you (SDRPlay) provide is excellent!

BEST Video I've seen Yet on SDR ! 73's de KF5DDA

Great video Mike. Only been on SDR uno for a few months but really enjoying it. This basics video is just what newbies like me needed. Roll on video number 2!

So glad this has come to my attention. I can't believe this has been available for over a year and I am just now seeing it. This will be very helpful as I learn to use the SDRUno correctly. I had no idea what to do to receive a reasonable signal and this will allow me to learn by doing. Most helpful. Thanks and looking forward to more instruction.

Thanks for this. I'm studying the software so I'll probably be asking a lot of questions. This software has about the same learning curve as sdr angel was for me.

Thank you I am completely new to SDR radio I look forward to learning much from you. This is way superior to my 30+ year old Kenwood R-5000, before that I used a BC 348Q receiver from WW2 surplus. That radio I donated to a WW2 museum in Broken Arrow Ok.

Thanks Mike. Much improved. Mouse pointer a great help. Also slowing down your presentation really helps.

Greetings from Sweden! You guys just got yourselves a new subscriber 🎉

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I just got a RSPdx and am looking forward to playing with it.

This is very helpful guide. I really like the setting up antenas part.

Just got the RSP1a up and running using SDRuno. This was very helpful. Looking forward to the others!

What a great overview, just the right amount of info presented in a clear and informative manner. Thank you so much :)

Finally, someone explains things I didn't know. Thank you thank you thank you... you soooo rocketh.

Just purchased one of your SDR units...the video was fantastic! Look forward to your series....

Dear Mike. New in this world, your video allows to start discovering the possibilities. Looking to what I see on my main window, perhaps I have to analyse if I have made the good choice for antenna for my project which is marine weather. So need to dig more! Thanks a lot.

This video was very helpful for me… Thank You will be watching more

Mike, your video(s) are top notch. Very well explained. As you get deeper into the tutorials, please explain the adjustments one can make to the various values, on for example the 'EX CONTROL'. At this point, I or maybe others do not know how to tweak these values. I certainly look forward to your step by step tutorials as they are very useful and I even got some value out of video 2. These videos will in my opinion, only add more value and support to the hobby of SDR's.

Excellent tutorial! TYVM!

Hi Mike. Just starting out on SDRplay....Looking forward to more of these informative videos.

I have the RSP1a purchased from HRO. Im interested in the basics also, and other software addons such as aircraft and ocean vessel mapping.And, it would be nice to see a list of all other SDR software that will work with this radio. I like your videos very much. You speak slow and clear. Very easy on the ears. Thank you!

Great first video. In future videos, please do not leave any abbreviations unexplained. Even “LO”. There are so many acronyms in SDRuno and it is probably easy to forget that we may not be as familiar with them as you. Thank you and I look forward to the next video.

Very helpful, thank you!

Good video, I am going to need to watch it a few more times to soak it in. I'm hoping to use my RSP1 to better see what Ham activity is going on. Then tune the transceiver in to make the QSO. I grew up using a Kenwood TS-830 so this is a very steep learning curve for me. I'll be stringing up a 148 foot Random Wire Antenna with a L-network ATU for the SDR.

Thank you. This was a useful video for me :)

WOW.. Thanks... I'm kind of new to Shortwave radio/SDR This was very informant.

THANKS! Many questions answered.

Hi..After thus Video i will bis one immediately....thank you so much

Thanks for the video I've found it very useful.

Recently purchased the RSPDuo and just getting started with it. Working great! This was a great SDRUno getting started video! Just what I needed. I also VERY MUCH appreciated the mention of the antenna types and directions. There is so much info out there on antennas that it's hard for us noobs to find just what we're looking for. So thank you for that as well. I'm currently running a 200' speaker wire loop stretched out all over my backyard. It's working, but I'm sure there's a better way to do it. But for now, I'm just sticking the ends of the loop into the P and N pins of the High-Z input. Not using the GND pin. I do have a NooElec Balun One Nine. Should I be using it instead of the High-Z input? Lastly, my desire was to listen to the longer wavelength bands in hopes of picking up stuff from Europe. I'm located in Ohio, USA. I've got a lot to learn about picking these kinds of stations out. (I do get loads of Ham traffic from South Carolina and Texas and broadcast stuff from Cuba I believe.) I also do some ADS-B stuff too. But during the daylight hours I would really like to be able to do some P25 trunk tracking, police monitoring. One of the reasons I purchased the Duo was in hopes of being able do it all in the one box, that it included two receivers. Is that something that can be done? Is that coming or is there a place to look to get directions? Thank you again for the videos. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of them! Doug

A great piece of kit well worth getting one.

Excellent video for nubees.

I just purchased a SDRplaydx and need a similar video on setting it up. This is my first SDR radio. Thank you. Dave K8WPE

Mike ,These tutorials are Awesome, Thank you for taking the time to share.... These have helped me so much to take out a lot of potential frustration in using the UNO ,The fun im having enjoying this unit, brings back memories of Me as a Kid, yes the Old days of short wave radios with Vaccume tubes glowing inside a box, Computers have come so far and this is well worth the cost of stepping up to SDR Radio , My question is in the future will the UNO With dual VFO's , would it be able to do 800 MHz trunking and Also a video on how to configure for a VHF / UHF Repeater Ham scanner..! Please keep those Tutorials going ,its helping very much to get a robust appreciation for this units capabilities

First Thank you Mike, it was a great start to my SDRuno. I was a new Ham in 1950's at 15 years old and in Africa.. you know when all you could get was Ex Military sets with "Valves" well here I am again just taking my Ham test again after 69 years, yes you did the maths I'm 84 ish. One question I have so that I can set up my gear! I have a FT-991A and lots of antennas for different bands and I want to figure out a way to be able to use and track stuff on the SDR and then go back and forth to my Transceiver using the same antenna on that particular band. How can I isolate my SDR enough from being "Fried " when I transmit? Is disconnecting the SDR with a switch enough?... Yes an old Fart but I still climb on the roof to install my Antennas!... Oh I am in Southern California.... john R

Love to see how to set up as an Air Band scanner with adjustable squelch. Thank You

Terrific video - thank you. My RSPdx arrives tomorrow, and I’m excited. Can I ask you a basic question: given such a colossal frequency space to explore - what do you find where? Can you think about a video that does a high level tour that shows what sorts of things you find at what frequencies? Also - you might want to think about not using Acronyms in these introductory videos. You have some instructions at the start that used them and I’ve no idea what you meant! But - thanks again.

Mike, thank you so much. Feel free to talk about anything you like. I am interested in listening to Amateur inverting satellites.

Thanks for this really good video, can you explain a bit more on installing a long wire antenna outside do I need a coax and balun or atu ? Thanks

Mike, first of all , I love these videos. They are a HUGE help. Is there one that I'm missing, that you can point me to, that goes over the MAIN SP settings? That explains what the different sliders there do exactly? Like the difference between the different FTT choices, and what the FTT Average does? I've kinda fiddled around and got it set to what feels right, but I just want to make sure I understand what it is I'm adjusting. Thanks again. Erik.

Very decent of you you to explain. I have come from a analogue radio with a BFO to RSP1A. I am using the MFJ 1886 RX magnetic loop antenna set about 10 feet above the roofline of my house. Silly question I know but where is the BFO in SDRuno, I am probably looking at it without understanding. Regarding the antenna I use, I know it is a directional antenna, but how directional is it. Seems such a skinny piece of antenna to receive the signal, nothing to do with SDRuno I know by I thought I would ask. I understand the direction of a wire is NE-SW, does that apply to a loop antenna as well. Thanks again for video, I am slowly getting there.

i would like to use SDR to locate the source of broadband noise in my sw receiver on 3.8 Mhz by cruising the neighborhood with the appropriate antennae. Measuring the amplitude of said noise with regard to FCC limits would be a plus if the noise source is uncooperative for official complaint with measurements stated

I need to figure out antennas. My little whip doesn't see much. Good intro, though, thanks. I'd like to see scanning, since the software now supports that. Also, more in depth explanation about the main panel options. I have the old rsp1.

thank you number 1

I know this is 3 years old, so my comment/questions may be obsolete, but I’m a brand new SDR owner/user. Recently purchased the RSPdx and installed SDRuno. This video was super helpful, but mine doesn’t show the LO in the MAIN SP and I don’t have SR (MHz) or DEC fields in the MAIN window like yours is showing. Maybe a software update and those don’t matter anymore? I’m watching more videos to learn these things. It’s almost like learning a new language. You guys use acronyms and letters like it’s second nature. I’m often clueless.

Mike I found this very helpful and easily followed. Many thanks. Have you covered tuning into VHF broadcast stations? I am also interested in the 2-metre amateur band. Cheers from Peterborough in England.

Hi and thanks for this very useful video! Is there anyway to zoom in or adjust the size of the memory panel? When I use scan memory, the panel is really small. Thanks in advance!

Mike...new user...for now using it on 10/11 meters, primarily.....have software up and running and can stumble around. My first question is how do I shut the software down and return to Windows home screen? Also when I exit a panel ("X" it out), how do I bring that panel back without reloading the entire software again? Thanks a bunch. I learned much from this video. VERY glad I found it...TY

Very new but excited to get my "ticket" and also use SDRPlay to listen. Need a brief lesson on setting the "offset" in the main SP window. How and how important. SteveEnter

I would really like to see how to perform a recording of IQ signals and do some simple analysis on them. I recently found some interesting disturbances and wanted to analyze them / look at them closely , unfortunately I didn't know where to start and how to do it.

Nice will be in the SDRUNO software DAB+

excellent instructor

In setting up another SDR I messed up my USB settings it seems. Subsequently I lost my Bluetooth functions. Is that a possibility here with UNO? If so there should be a caveat in prefix. A week has passed and I have yet to work out this problem. Your work is well done. the volumes are spot on and clean clear display. Thank you for your concern and efforts.

My SDRuno screen does not show the SR(mhz) or DEC boxes (upper left window). Is this something I need to activate?

Thank you very much for the excellent video, it was very helpful. Is is possible to expand the SDR UNO display windows to fill your entire screen so I could more easily see the control buttons and icons you were demonstrating.

great!!

My frustration with the sdruno sofware (after over a year trying to learn it) continues. At about the seven minute mark of the introductory video it refers to 'the sample rate'. I don't have that option displayed on my stock, just-installed copy of sdruno. Please a more basic primer for the new user!

i dont have the option in the main panel to change the bandwith ,i'm using version v1.42 1014 with a rsp1a

I am new to SDRUno, and I have just bought a RSPdx. I want to get the antenna signal fron my FTDX3000. I have read that it should come from the IF output of the rig. Could you explain how to adjust SDRUno then? TIA

This morning i only see 48k max now i can't play any FM radio,, was working yesterday,, any help on why this would happen would be appreciated,, not changed anything,, I was using it last night,, Glenn

Is there any way to configure SDRuno, leaving it locked on a single frequency and muting the audio and making it only emit sound when some transmission is performed on that frequency?

Thanks for these videos !! My SDR RSPdx is coming today.... I am using the RX OUT from my Yaesu 101MP to feed the signal.... if I switch and put it direct using another antenna.... do I need to be careful when transmitting on my 101MP using another antenna? I don't want to blow out or overload my new SDR. Or are their protections built in to the RSPdx?

Being a ham for many many years now, I tried to find a way of tuning, like the one I am used to. I mean like turning the tuning knob and listening to the stations. Tried the left & right arrows with no luck so far. I have seen videos that the frequency rolls up or down like this, but I have no found the way to do it. So, maybe it's a dumb question, but... Thanks for your time, 73s

Planning to purchase a RSP1 to use it as a SDR with a Kenwood TS-850. My question, since this RSP1 will get the RF input coming from the transciever's IF output at 8.83 MHz it will be necessary any additional device, such as a decoupler, in order to protect the front end of the RSP1 receiver while the transceiver is in TX mode?

I have the RSP-1a and the SDRplay. Being an amateur, I would like for the SPR frequency to track the same as my VFO on the Icom 7300. It did this on my old computer, but since I have purchased a new computer it does not do this any more. What do I need to do ? Jack

Really Nice job of showing the basics of this. I am trying to learn more before buying my 1st ham radio and this looks like an amazing option vs all the old ham receivers on ebay. Is it possible to add a transmit section to this later on or is SDRuno receive only? I will keep watching videos and trying to learn more and maybe you will talk about that somewhere.

Can you use your mouse wheel to go up / down on MW for example by 10 kHz step size ? I don't want use use the digits, just the mouse wheel.

Great video for a beginner, why do you need to offset the LO?

Has any one created an application note for this radio, notably an explanation of the various setting that are behind the different panels. In the panel that shows the main waterfall display one can choose various FFT windows. what is best and for what purpose? Great clear video BTW ( acronyms argh.. By The Way).

Very helpful, thanks. Two questions: 1. You mentioned that setting a LO offset is important but didn't say what the LO offset is or why it's important, 2. For HFFAX the receiver is tuned to a certain frequency and, ideally, the passband is offset from that frequency. Is that possible in SDR Uno? VY 73...

Thanks Mike just what i needed, Ive had SDRplay/SDRplay1A and SDRplay 2 and gave up on them all after a very short time, recently bought another SDR1A as i was determind to learn and not give up .. I was getting close again then i found your video that I intend to watch over and over, my antennas are X50 for VHF&UHF, LONG WIRE for HF should i use an ATU or Not , my interest [im a licensed HAM...M3BSF] but have always been a SWL, are Air and Marine Bands & Ham Bands would be good to learn more about Antennas for use with SDR. Great Job THANKYOU From Carlisle in the English Lake District

I am not sure what other video you have done but I am fairly new to the SDRplay family...Can you explain when it comes to listening for audio/voice khz/mhz/ghz what is most interesting?

I'm trying to make up my mind if I should use SDRuno or CubicSDR. I am a Mac user so it's easier to use CubicSDR, but I do have a dual boot with WIN10. My WIN10 boot is sparse of apps so don't like to use it unless I really need to. If I used CubicSDR am I going to be missing out on features of my RSP1A? I have only had an SDR since this week so am very new to the whole concept,

First of all a BIG THANK YOU for all the support. And now the newbie question. There are times that turning the mouse wheel, moves the red line in the spectrum, and some other times that instead of the red line, the frequency band underneath moves accordingly. I am trying to find out under what conditions happens the one or the other. I prefer the red line moving in the frequency band.

Good video Just starting out ty

Great video! I am thinking of mounting an SDR in a weatherproof chassis so it can have a short lead to the outdoor mast-mounted antenna. Would that be a better solution than having the SDR indoors next to my PC but having a long lead of low-loss wire to the outdoor antenna? I want maximum signal reception and I want to do it right the first time. Thank you.

I ordered an rspdx and was wondering if sdruno is able to be used with other sdr dongles, if so how would I integrate them with the software, I have an rtl sdr and a nooelect. I really like how you keep it simple and cover the details. Thank You!

The LO change didn't make sense to me. Also, there are two frequency displays in two different panels, I get into trouble with them and lose control of the frequency. I'm not understanding what is going on with the frequency settings for some reason.

good morning I have a problem ..I hear the stations I want but on a different frequency than what they are ..in all bands ..I have an antenna aor 7000 mla 30 ..rsp1A sdruno sdr ..what could be wrong ??

Hi thank you for this informative video, I really want to run such as this but not really knowing which or how should I start. I have windows 10 and what should I buy? Thank you for anyone that would attempt to help me on this goal of mine.

How to copy a list o a file of frequencies to listen to?

My ver 1.40.2 doesn't have all of the adjustments shown in your main window. It also doesn't display some 'offset' (Lo) in the SDR SP window. Hard to follow along with your video. Do you have an updated video for ver 1.40.2? I need help.

hi mike for a rspduo does etxio get installed when i did full package the only thing i see is a exe ?

Hello I am new to operate on the QO-100 sat and i just bought the SDRplay and i like to know how to set the LO.. many thanks regards joe 9H1GT

Can anything be done about overlapping signals in the lower bands?

Great video, I am new to the hobby , can you be more specific on how to set up (the offset) on 02:50 time your video, Thank you JD

Love this SDRuno have lots of exploring to do. Just one problem for me the option drop down boxes are yellow with yellow print? Not readable by me the manual displays in black on grey it makes exploring a tad difficult can you give me a suggestion please Thank you very much Semper Fi

Just purchased my sdrplay and my windows install doesnt look like your screen, has it changed radically? EDIT - Dohh probably cause I installed the Console version, now amended

Sometimes i can tune way down... to 24 khz and sometimes i can not... very strange. SDRUno stops sometimes... like 2000 khz... why is this?

Can those windows be stretched? I have a 21:9 screen like you and having that empty space will surely bother me.

Thanks for the nice intro. When I opened SDRUNO for the first time I was struggling to find how to close it. In the end I had to kill the windows task to close it. Might be worthwhile to explain how to close it properly. Also, could you please elaborate on how to enter the frequency and fine tune, especially for a laptop that does not have a mouse wheel? How do I fine tune otherwise? Why do I need to hit "M" when entering a frequency and not the "enter" key?

I understand how there can be an ideal direction for YOU to point YOUR antenna. But how can you even suggest a blanket statement like that?

I cant get my FT991A to be controlled by SDR UNO?

Hi Mike, thanks very much for this extremely useful video. I'm returning to amateur radio after a 30 year gap so need some help. If I was running the SDR Uno as a reciever to my Hf transmitter, how would I shield the SDR from the transmitter's 20w of output? Could I use the same antenna for both with a switching arrangement? Thanks again Ace, G6XIB

Hi. Can you demonstrate FM broadcast capability and so on, please....

Will this run on my MacBook IOS ?