tvdxer
Member
Hello,
I recently purchased a cheap USB DVB-T stick based on the Broadcom RTL2832 / E4000 tuner. I installed the software per the instructions found on this site (or some other, I can't remember), as well as the drivers on the CD that shipped with the dongle (which I think might have been a bad idea). Anyway, in HDSDR, when I press "Start" and the SDR is tuned to a strong frequency (e.g. strong enough for any radio to receive with its bare antenna terminals), all I hear is noise. These are FM frequencies (162.550 MHz, 100.5 MHz, etc.) and the radio is obviously in the FM mode. The waterfall display shows a signal that is strongest near the center and that falls off as you go off the center, but it also does this for any frequency. Could anybody help somebody totally new to this?
I recently purchased a cheap USB DVB-T stick based on the Broadcom RTL2832 / E4000 tuner. I installed the software per the instructions found on this site (or some other, I can't remember), as well as the drivers on the CD that shipped with the dongle (which I think might have been a bad idea). Anyway, in HDSDR, when I press "Start" and the SDR is tuned to a strong frequency (e.g. strong enough for any radio to receive with its bare antenna terminals), all I hear is noise. These are FM frequencies (162.550 MHz, 100.5 MHz, etc.) and the radio is obviously in the FM mode. The waterfall display shows a signal that is strongest near the center and that falls off as you go off the center, but it also does this for any frequency. Could anybody help somebody totally new to this?