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Thank you! I don't live in an area with a lot of severe thunderstorms any longer. But... It's mostly woods up here. Lightning strikes a tree and the tree falls onto the power lines. So instead of a big jolt we end up with 30-60 seconds of brown outs. Breakers never pop and it's hard on gear. Thanks,...

For those that use my WD8ED SDR-Radio Server, you may have noticed it was down a day or two. The power here recently took a serious brown down after a lightning strike nearby. It took out the video display and power supply of the iMac 24 I was using as a server. The parts finally showed up and the s...

Okay. I spent a few hours working on the HF antenna today. I worked on improving the method I used to ground mount the feed point. I added 4 ground radials 33 feet long each. I also resonant parallel driven elements for 40 and 20 meters. The radials were an attempt to quiet down some of the electric...

The rtlsdr dongle on AGC is next to useless as it's "AGC" is not tuned for SWL conditions and leads to easy overloading. It does not have a manual "ATT" setting. It has gain settings from a useless 0 (or even below with some adjustment curves) to over 40 dB. The optimum setting ...

Remember when 10Base seemed like a lot of bandwidth? Ugh...

I'll play with the bandwidth some. But across a LAN it's not a real indication.

Thanks again.

Ed

Thanks for the data! I find none of that to be a surprise! :-) It's very rural up here and not many FM BC stations. The few that are strong are big stations. Some aren't all that far away but have antenna patterns favoring more populated areas. Also that antenna's lowest design range is 144 Mhz. It'...

Just for the crash dump instructions. So that part is answered.

Added RTL-SDR to the server in place of the SDR-IQ. Also put the VHF side of the FDM-S2 and the RTL-SDR on a 2m/70cm/6m vertical.

Thank you.

Ed

This post did stimulate some feedback. The system appears to be working and I'll be working on the antennas over the next couple of days.

But still my questions about the logging are still open.

Thank you,

Ed

Hello, I've been playing with the server lately. I recently relocated and have more room and a quieter location. So I decided to use some of my spare SDRs as servers. It wasn't too bad and I found answers to almost all of my questions on this site's documentation and this forum. Except for a couple....