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Kristin Cavazos Phoenix Arizona
Hi- I just received the ezcap RTL TV DVB-T USB dongle in the mail- direct from China. Total time from ordering online to my mailbox was less than 9 days.
I installed HDSDR, got it going (took hours and hours of reading the instructions, settings, and figuring out why no sound coming out of my laptop using HDSDR, re-set my audio settings to default, now sound yay)
I am able to receive some local FM broadcasting radio stations.
OK- here comes the "durr" moment: I cannot figure out how to scan across the bands, for instance- on my TenTec I can scan across 1.5 MHz to capture all the stations within 1.5 MHz. With HDSDR, the only thing I have been able to accomplish is inputting one specific frequency, but I cannot figure out how to have the system scan across a wide section. So, I have to manually input one single measly frequency. I want it to scan across a wide swath and then I can pick out what signals it gets.
Excuse me if I missed something in the instructions, I've been to RR SDR wiki, Stench,com, and even googled (with no success, did not find exactly I am looking for) it seems like a pretty stupid and easy thing to do but I can't figure it out even after staying up til 3:45 AM last night.
Explain it to me like I am 5 years old, I am an old lady with no tech skills, it's a miracle I got this going at all, in fact it took me quite some time and staring at the computer to figure out just how to make it work. I am fascinated with this technology but maybe it's over my head. As I said, I am an old lady and not really hi tech, so pretend your grandma is asking.
I just want to auto scan over a certain bandwidth, all I know how to do is put in say "718.54 MHz" only on the program but I don't know how to make it scan across say :"700 MHz through 800 MHz" so I can click on all the freqs it gathers. Does this make sense? Can the program do that?
if you want to congratulate me on being a female and OLD as dirt to get this going go ahead- it truly was an accomplishment for me, with NO help from my programmer husband who promised me he'd do it today, but I wanted to get it started last night as I just got it in the mail. I want to do it all myself as he has his own hobby and it doesn't include radio.
Thanks in advance.
Fine if you point me to a website wiki but please at least point out which paragraph or exact place I should look for this information i must be mentally disabled as I can't find what I am looking for darnit.
I installed HDSDR, got it going (took hours and hours of reading the instructions, settings, and figuring out why no sound coming out of my laptop using HDSDR, re-set my audio settings to default, now sound yay)
I am able to receive some local FM broadcasting radio stations.
OK- here comes the "durr" moment: I cannot figure out how to scan across the bands, for instance- on my TenTec I can scan across 1.5 MHz to capture all the stations within 1.5 MHz. With HDSDR, the only thing I have been able to accomplish is inputting one specific frequency, but I cannot figure out how to have the system scan across a wide section. So, I have to manually input one single measly frequency. I want it to scan across a wide swath and then I can pick out what signals it gets.
Excuse me if I missed something in the instructions, I've been to RR SDR wiki, Stench,com, and even googled (with no success, did not find exactly I am looking for) it seems like a pretty stupid and easy thing to do but I can't figure it out even after staying up til 3:45 AM last night.
Explain it to me like I am 5 years old, I am an old lady with no tech skills, it's a miracle I got this going at all, in fact it took me quite some time and staring at the computer to figure out just how to make it work. I am fascinated with this technology but maybe it's over my head. As I said, I am an old lady and not really hi tech, so pretend your grandma is asking.
I just want to auto scan over a certain bandwidth, all I know how to do is put in say "718.54 MHz" only on the program but I don't know how to make it scan across say :"700 MHz through 800 MHz" so I can click on all the freqs it gathers. Does this make sense? Can the program do that?
if you want to congratulate me on being a female and OLD as dirt to get this going go ahead- it truly was an accomplishment for me, with NO help from my programmer husband who promised me he'd do it today, but I wanted to get it started last night as I just got it in the mail. I want to do it all myself as he has his own hobby and it doesn't include radio.
Thanks in advance.
Fine if you point me to a website wiki but please at least point out which paragraph or exact place I should look for this information i must be mentally disabled as I can't find what I am looking for darnit.