Firstly thanks for all the great videos. Amazing info! I actually live not too far from you, Stoney Creek side of Hamilton. I'd be interested in seeing if you have any long term issues with the RTL-SDR V5 (nooelec NESDR SMArt). This was my first SDR receiver. I've used a bunch of different SDR software with it. I run it continuously for a while using AIS-Catcher. After a few days it stopped working, and now even though it connects to the computer, and the software sees the hardware, it doesn't receive anything on any band. I replaced it with "RTL-SDR Blog V4 R828D RTL2832U 1PPM TCXO SMA Software Defined Radio" and will see how it works out.
I only just received mine, I got so many questions from students on how to get it working with GNURadio. So far so good, although for HF the upconverter is the way to go. Make sure you go back to quad sampling if you have been in direct_q, otherwise you won't hear anything, maybe that is the issue. I did a few biathlons in Stoney Creek many moons ago!
@@ClarkTelecomYou've inspired me to look at it again. It originally stopped working on my bare boat necessities install on a raspberry pi 4 using ais-catcher. I've also tried it on a Windows and Mac computer with no success. Various SDR software. I'm thinking a hardware issue though.
Firstly thanks for all the great videos. Amazing info! I actually live not too far from you, Stoney Creek side of Hamilton. I'd be interested in seeing if you have any long term issues with the RTL-SDR V5 (nooelec NESDR SMArt). This was my first SDR receiver. I've used a bunch of different SDR software with it. I run it continuously for a while using AIS-Catcher. After a few days it stopped working, and now even though it connects to the computer, and the software sees the hardware, it doesn't receive anything on any band. I replaced it with "RTL-SDR Blog V4 R828D RTL2832U 1PPM TCXO SMA Software Defined Radio" and will see how it works out.
I only just received mine, I got so many questions from students on how to get it working with GNURadio. So far so good, although for HF the upconverter is the way to go. Make sure you go back to quad sampling if you have been in direct_q, otherwise you won't hear anything, maybe that is the issue. I did a few biathlons in Stoney Creek many moons ago!
Also you may want to reset the driver. SDR# has a .bat file to reload the driver (install-rtlsdr.bat).
@@ClarkTelecomYou've inspired me to look at it again. It originally stopped working on my bare boat necessities install on a raspberry pi 4 using ais-catcher. I've also tried it on a Windows and Mac computer with no success. Various SDR software. I'm thinking a hardware issue though.
Did you get any further with the DSc decoding?
Work in progress!