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Hi Dave, Wolfgang !

Please have a look at this website :
http://www.sdrplay.com/windows.html

http://www.sdrplay.com/software/SDRplay_EXTIO_Installer_v3.8.3.exe

The Chip-manufacturer claims 10 Bit resolution ENOB (effective number of 
bits), so the device should be somewhat better than the usual DVB-T 
sticks at 8 Bits (at more than 10 times the price of those).

73 de dg3lv Tobias

Am 30.05.2016 um 20:47 schrieb Wolfgang Büscher:
> Hello Dave,
>
> By coincidence, one of the developers of SDR-play recently asked me if
> I'd like to have one of these devices to add support for it. Since I
> cannot devote lots of time for it, my suggestion was that one of the
> SDR-play developers should write an ExtIO-compatible interface DLL for
> it. Most if not all SDR programs support it, for example Winrad, HDSDR,
> Spectrum Lab, and possibly many others, so writing such a DLL would make
> their radio more useful to many users.
> I don't know what happened since then, but maybe there is a
> Winrad-compatible "ExtIO"-DLL available already, which you can easily
> load in Spectrum Lab as driver for an 'input device'. Just let me know
> if you need more information.
> It would be interesting to know how the SDR-play compares with other
> (more expensive) SDRs. Maybe I will carry one home from the Ham Radio
> fair in Friedrichshafen this year...
>
> All the best,
>   Wolf .
>
>
> Am 30.05.2016 um 17:09 schrieb DAVE PICK:
>>
>> Dear LF
>>
>> I have a new toy which I've finished playing with and I want to use it
>> for some useful purpose. It's an "SDR-Play" USB SDR.
>>
>> What I'd like to be able to use it for is to replace my old Soft-Rock
>> SDRs for my LF and MF grabbers.
>>
>> I can get it to view a slice of the spectrum 500 or 600kHz wide from,
>> say 50 to 550kHz, then I want to be able to run two instances of
>> Spectrum Lab (or Argo?) to take grabs of the 136 and 472kHz bands.
>>
>> But, how do I configure spectrum Lab (or another program) to be able
>> to do this? I feel awfully out of my depth when I read anything about
>> setting this sort of thing up so any help in plain language would be
>> appreciated!
>>
>> I realise I'll have to pay great attention to the front-end filtering
>> in order to make the most of the limited resolution of the A/D but
>> that sort of stuff I can cope with!
>>
>> 73
>>
>>
>> Dave G3YXM
>>
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