225-400 in 1.5 seconds. The best MilAir setup I've encountered yet.

[nyair1]

I have a Noo Elec dongle from eBay and it works well (generally speaking, not this specific application). I also have one of the temperature compensated models from rtl-sdr.com that I'm really happy with. They are a little more money (around $25) but work very well with little to no frequency drift. I obviously have an AirSpy as well which wins hands down, but you pay for that performance.

I just ordered the Noo Elec NESDR mini 2 from amazon today. Going to play around with it and see what I can get out of it. Like to try the plane plotter stuff to and see what kind of range I can get. Just installed some new Davis rf bury flex coax on my discone antenna. I'm at about 30 ft on my house with it. With my Milair scanners I have about 225 mile range or so I have roughly figured out.

 

[poltergeisty]

Wow! So much for FHSS. :lol:

 

[bailly2]

i got a nooelec sdr,,,,sdr# with frequency manager + scanner plugin....its searching 225 to 400, 2 seconds to search about 1 mhz of spectrum. how to speed it up?

 

[dave3825]

Look for detect ms and lower that value.

Yours may look different but right here, ^ , above the arrow is what will make it faster by lowering the value.

 

[BM82557]

i got a nooelec sdr,,,,sdr# with frequency manager + scanner plugin....its searching 225 to 400, 2 seconds to search about 1 mhz of spectrum. how to speed it up?

The original poster in 2015 was talking about the freq scanner plugin (first screenshot) not the Freq Manager + Scanner (second screenshot) -

 

[mancow]

Yes, Vasily's plugin is what you need. It works the best.

Also, I was using the Airspy. It provides about 3 x the instantaneous bandwidth as a dongle so my speeds are about 3 x faster.

 

[bailly2]

added the vasily fast scanner plugin for sdr#, turned on sdr# and it says "cannot access RTL device"
set the scan range as 225,000 to 400,000

now i have to reinstall sdr#. what a piece of garbage plugin

 

[mancow]

Sounds like an RTL driver issue. Did you run Zadig?

 

[bailly2]

yes, to install the driver for sdr#. ...i have installed 2 plugins for sdr#, neither of them messed with the driver. almost seems like fast scanner plugin is a malicious program just there to screw things up

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Can someone make this a sticky?

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[dave3825]

Sounds like an RTL driver issue. Did you run Zadig?

yes, to install the driver for sdr#. ...i have installed 2 plugins for sdr#, neither of them messed with the driver. almost seems like fast scanner plugin is a malicious program just there to screw things up

If you think the plug in is nothing more than a malicious program just there to screw things up, then you should not use it.

I have used the plug in on at least 12 different versions of sdr# and never had a single rtl issue.

 

[batdude]

...

best use of the AirSpy I have found yet!

Great thread!

doug

 

[widowsson]

yes, to install the driver for sdr#. ...i have installed 2 plugins for sdr#, neither of them messed with the driver. almost seems like fast scanner plugin is a malicious program just there to screw things up

I think that Vasily states on his page that the plug-in does not work on newer SDR# versions. I'm using it with a version from a couple of years ago and it's working fine and always has.

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[mancow]

I think that Vasily states on his page that the plug-in does not work on newer SDR# versions. I'm using it with a version from a couple of years ago and it's working fine and always has.

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I just downloaded the latest SDR# (1619) and plugin and it works fine.

 

[Ryangn]

Just last night I downloaded the latest version of SDR# as well along with the newest version of the Vasily plugin, I believe it was May 2017 version, and everything works fine for me.

 

[widowsson]

I just downloaded the latest SDR# (1619) and plugin and it works fine.

Thanks for the update.

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[N0JRD]

Do you add the .dll file to the plugins file on the sdrsharp or just in the same folder?

 

[mancow]

There are two parts, the magic line and the DLL. The DLL goes in the main SDR# folder where the program and other DLLs reside. There shouldn't be a plugins "file" or folder. The "magic line" goes in the Plugins.xml file.