{"id":378,"date":"2015-04-25T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/25\/dongle-usb-sdr-receiver-13-video\/"},"modified":"2015-04-25T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T08:12:00","slug":"dongle-usb-sdr-receiver-13-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/25\/dongle-usb-sdr-receiver-13-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dongle&#8221; USB SDR Receiver   $13 (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXLVLLRqpj0?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I was recently commenting to Pete that I could use some gear that would give me a better means of checking the bandwidth of my transmissions. Pete. pointed to the latest issue of our much-loved SPAT magazine. Indeed on SPRAT 165 (Spring 2015) there is an article by Ken Marshall G4IIB on how use the RTL2832u R820T DVB-T &#8220;dongle&#8221; (USB stick) as an SDR receiver. I sent 13 dollars to Amazon. The device arrived yesterday. I followed Ken&#8217;s instructions and soon I had the little device inhaling on 12 meters. It is really amazing. Lots of technology in a little box the size of your thumb! I use it with the free HDSDR software and have been listening to 12 and 10 CW and SSB. See the video above. Tomorrow I will attempt Ken&#8217;s mod that will open up the other HF bands. Then I will be able to put to use a second SPRAT article about this device : Also in SPRAT 165 Tony Fishpool G4WIF describes how to use this device as a rudimentary indicating instrument for bandwidth measurements. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Great stuff. Get yourself one of these devices. You will in effect be getting an all-band all-mode computer controlled receiver for $13 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I got this one: <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00D3GRU24\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\"><strong>http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00D3GRU24\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Thanks Ken, thanks Tony. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in<\/strong> Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently commenting to Pete that I could use some gear that would give me a better means of checking the bandwidth of my transmissions. Pete. pointed to the latest issue of our much-loved SPAT magazine. Indeed on SPRAT 165 (Spring 2015) there is an article by Ken Marshall G4IIB on how use the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/25\/dongle-usb-sdr-receiver-13-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Dongle&#8221; USB SDR Receiver   $13 (VIDEO)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdr","category-sprat","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}