It's all about the Software

Final update:

I decided to buy the authentic RTL-SDR aluminium dongle, and it works perfectly and as expected, so I believe the other dongle was faulty.

I got the message that this forum is for the SDR-Radio software, but I though I'd post this final update since in the end the problem was not ...

Thanks you both for your replies!

My main and only reason for using CubicSDR is because it was the first option I saw that would work on my Macbook straight away. I will look into getting
sdr-radio working as well.

And regarding the quality of the dongle: sure, I'm not expecting it to be great ...

Hi all,

I'm a new player and just getting started, so I'm sure just like the rest of you when I had my system set up I tried to listen to some FM radio stations.

I'm in the US so I tried looking for stations in the 87.8 to 108.0 MHz range but couldn't find anything. I looked around and long story ...