can't get sdrplay to work with e4000 2832 dongle
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:26 am
I have one on the E4000 dongles that I have been running on my laptop. It works fine with sdrsharp. I'm using it in direct mode, listening to FM broadcast, aircraft, etc.
I installed the sdrplay extdll version. I launch it and when I turn it on it appears to make the dongle work. The noise level comes up. So far only noise, no signals. I have not been able to find the attenuation/gain function in the menu. Any pointers on that. Perhaps it comes up in heavy attenuation. I did click AGC but that doesn't seem to make a difference. There must be a default setting that is not correct. I'm thinking maybe a default offset freq assuming an upconverter? Hearing all the noise but no signals, something is not set correctly somewhere. Again, this dongle works fine on the same laptop using sdrsharp. The e4000 version does have 2 ways adjusting the gain, front end and backend. Maybe one of them is defaulted low gain but access is not obvious to me.
I installed the sdrplay extdll version. I launch it and when I turn it on it appears to make the dongle work. The noise level comes up. So far only noise, no signals. I have not been able to find the attenuation/gain function in the menu. Any pointers on that. Perhaps it comes up in heavy attenuation. I did click AGC but that doesn't seem to make a difference. There must be a default setting that is not correct. I'm thinking maybe a default offset freq assuming an upconverter? Hearing all the noise but no signals, something is not set correctly somewhere. Again, this dongle works fine on the same laptop using sdrsharp. The e4000 version does have 2 ways adjusting the gain, front end and backend. Maybe one of them is defaulted low gain but access is not obvious to me.