Just curious on who currently has the DSDPlus Fast Lane Program and how well does it work. I see if you buy the $25 unlimited with updates but noticed the last time the post was updated was back in 2018. Maybe I'm missing something, I don't mind spending the $25 just wanted to see if this project is still being worked on and being updated. Would it work on a RaspberryPi4?
DSDPlus DSDPlus worth it?
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Works great on Windows (no idea about Pi unless Windows apps can be emulated somehow), been a Fast Lane user for almost a decade. I use it daily to keep an eye on various conventional and trunked systems in my area & wherever I visit. It never misses a beat
Not nearly as many updates as there've been years ago. Only one update this year. Used to be anywhere from every few days/weeks/months. I don't believe the developer(s) has(have) an active presence on the forums as other app developers do
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In my opinion, simply does not need them (updates).
It is very much Windows software. You'd need to figure out using WINE to run it on Linux.
Maybe somebody has gotten it working in Windows emulation on Linux, but if they have I'm unaware. It's natively a Windows application.
$25 can barely buy you a meal for two. $25 for the updates is worth it.
You do need at least one SDR device (RTL dongle, Airspy, SDRPlay, HydraSDR) to use it though. It's especially useful for identifying and mapping out trunked systems that aren't otherwise known about but may be active in your area. NEXEDGE48/96, DMR TII/TIII, P25 Phase I / II (including with TDMA control channels), D-Star (I think), Yaesu Fusion, etc.
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I had a smoothy and cheese steak sandwich two days ago at the local mall and it totaled $28. IThe price of DSD+ is very reasonable in my opinion (but that meal was not)>
Actually 2 this year and four in the past 8 months, including TDMA control channels and OTA RID aliases. Well worth it!!!
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It's worth it just for the ability to run 1 cheap RTLSDR per control channel, which is what I use it for. I mean you can use something like SDRTrunk to scan one control channel IF your control channel and voice channels are within that 2.4mhz bandwidth limitation. Since the sites I monitor range from 700 to 860mhz, I need 2 just for one control channel. However, with DSD+ Fast Lane, you don't. So I have one SDR monitoring a control channel and another SDR monitoring conventional analog and DMR signals until and if my area switches entirely to P25, then I'll likely use my second for another site.
Now, I do think it has a few issues. Randomly my DSD+ will decide to stop scanning, sometimes it will decide that a control channel isn't a control channel anymore. And the audio quality, it sounds okay, but the audio isn't as clear as SDRTrunk in my experience and tends to miss on either the first or the last word spoken (As if someone released their radio button too early). That could also just be the radios some of the responders are using in my area, I'm not sure. Either way, most of this is only a minor inconvenience and I hope it improves in time. I leave it running 24/7 and run a rdio-scanner server for friends and myself, but unfortunately I haven't found a way to record/import analog traffic into rdio-scanner using dsd+ Fast Lane. I don't think it's possible.
So yeah, I think it's worth it. I spent $10 for the year of updates because I wasn't sure just how often the team updates the program. I'll probably buy the $25 one day but from the moment I bought it (Back around March 19th of this year.) I personally haven't seen any updates.
Now, I do think it has a few issues. Randomly my DSD+ will decide to stop scanning, sometimes it will decide that a control channel isn't a control channel anymore. And the audio quality, it sounds okay, but the audio isn't as clear as SDRTrunk in my experience and tends to miss on either the first or the last word spoken (As if someone released their radio button too early). That could also just be the radios some of the responders are using in my area, I'm not sure. Either way, most of this is only a minor inconvenience and I hope it improves in time. I leave it running 24/7 and run a rdio-scanner server for friends and myself, but unfortunately I haven't found a way to record/import analog traffic into rdio-scanner using dsd+ Fast Lane. I don't think it's possible.
So yeah, I think it's worth it. I spent $10 for the year of updates because I wasn't sure just how often the team updates the program. I'll probably buy the $25 one day but from the moment I bought it (Back around March 19th of this year.) I personally haven't seen any updates.
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In a word; yes.
The 35 for lifetime is well worth it. Nothing decodes as much system information as DSDfastlane. You can trunk track with either one SDR or 2 SDRs(prefered). I even use it on a discriminator taped BCD536. Its great for identifying all kinds of digital signals including system type/mode)/CC-SCC(frequencies)/neighbors/RIDs/TG/encryption/Algid/KID/ColorCode/LCN/Site/RID alias/Auto Alias etc. If you add in the alias information to the DSD .radio, groups, sites files you end up with a highly descriptive display of who and what is talking.
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DSDPlus FL is absolutely the best software I've ever bought in my life, definitely worth $25, and personally, if I know how good it is before I buy, I would accept it on the price of $99. Also, many software become subscriptions nowadays, and it is not comfortable to pay even just $1 per month. $25 for lifetime usage, I mean, you cannot say that is a bad deal in any way.
Yes, on D-STAR. Monitoring from Toronto Canada.
From my RADIO logs:
D-Star, 0, -1, 2132235261, 50, Normal, 1, 2025/07/24 10:47, *"GB3RS [51.99767,-0.74000]"
D-Star, 0, -1, 2528955107, 50, Normal, 2, 2025/07/24 10:49, *"M0SVU [Tiago - Bristol - UK] [51.53133,-2.54933]"
