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    Wire Random wire antenna with RTL-SDR (V4)

    First of all: I'm a complete beginner :oops: I want to listen to the shortwave bands with my RTL-SDR dongle (V4). I only want to receive - not transmit. The simplest setup is supposed to be a long wire antenna. I wanted to order a few meters of copper wire for this. Now I have a few questions...
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    SDRTrunk RTL SDR V4 “channel start rejected tuner unavailable” error using SDRTrunk Software

    So I just purchased a RTL SDR v4 and I’m using it to listen to North Carolina Viper P25 using SDRTrunk software. I have everything set up; my control frequency for my tower and it works. I have a signal and it stays on CONTROL. It seems like most transmissions are coming through but I’m only...
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    SDRTrunk RTL-SDR P25 P1 Hearing Unintended Traffic From Another City

    If I listen to the control frequency I don't hear anything but listening to "alt control 2" I start hearing audio. I'm also hearing traffic and seeing talkgroups from a neighboring city but those aren't even part of the talkgroup aliases I imported from RR? I'm using an RTL-SDR V3 + RTL-SDR V4...
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    • nooelec nooelec antenna ralsnake m6 ratlsnake m rtl sdr rtl-sdr rtl-sdr v3 rtl-sdr v4 sdrtrunk
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    SDRTrunk RTL SDR V4 compatibility issue

    I have SDRTrunk 0.6.0 beta 2 and it keeps telling me that it's not compatible even though apparently from the few forum posts about this that I read, they all say it's compatible, but the software begs to differ. Should I just return my SDR for any older one or is there a proper fix?
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