I have at my disposal a Dell Optiplex 3040 Micro PC. It has a 6th Generation Intel Core I3, 8 GB RAM, and Windows 11 running on a 250 GB SSD. I am looking to set up two Broadcastify feeds using SDRTrunk and SDRs. Will this handle it? What are the benefits and/or drawbacks versus a Raspberry Pi and OP25? Consider the fact that I have zero Linux knowledge.
DSDPlus and OP25 behave like scanners. One conversation at a time. So you miss traffic. But, many or most broadcastify standard feeds are set up like that, using scanners or OP25 or SDRTrunk. You'll handle standard feeds just fine.
Where you may run into trouble is if you want to run a Broadcastify "Calls" feed. That is a different beast. You need enough dongles connected to cover the full bandwidth from the lowest to highest frequencies in each band, so that you can pick up ALL calls on the site you are monitoring (which I'm guessing is Stark or Summit Simulcast). And if that is the case, it'll eat up CPU/memory pretty quick. In addition, with a "Calls" feed, you have to plan on it not just listening to one talkgroup at a time and sending its audio, but actually listening to potentially a dozen or more active talkgroups on the given simulcast all at the same time and sending that audio up to Broadcastify.
So I'd say you are good to go if you want to use OP25 or scanner to do a scanner feed. If you want to use SDRTrunk, you really need to plan for enough SDRs to cover all of the spectrum in use on the site as well as the highest number of simultaneous conversations that might be occurring on that site.
People who are running Stark / Summit Simulcast "Calls" feeds require a lot more resources than people who are running "standard" feeds in those counties.
