LF: SDR-Play and Spectrum Laboratory

[DAVE PICK <daveyxm@virginmedia.com>]

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