Kinetic SBS-3 Video

[Turbo68]

Hi everyone made a short video of my Kinetic SBS-3 Virtual Radar the SDR tuned to 122.400 AM Melbourne Flight information Service enjoy..

Aviation - YouTube
Regards Lino..

 

[E-Man]

Thats the first video I have seen on the SBS-3, thanks for sharing Lino. The audio sounds good, how do you like the sdr software and can Google Earth/Maps be integrated? Is the SBS-3 a better unit than the airnav radarbox?

 

[Turbo68]

Hi E-man the SDR receiver works excellent,never used the Airnav..

Regards Lino..

 

[KC1UA]

This one has caught my eye since its inception. I don't want to detract from the aviation based theme of this thread, but out of curiosity how would you rate the SDR portion of this device alongside a hardware receiver and/or scanner for receiving signals through the spectrum? It's offered at one heck of a good price for a device that does so much.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Turbo68]

Hi scancapecod for the price its an excellent unit,The SDR receiver is as good in reception as my other radios one advantage it has its powered by usb hooked up to a laptop can take it anywhere small in size..

Regards Lino..
RADIOS:
ALINCO DJ-X11,ALINCO DJ-X2000,ALINCO DX-R8 (2)
AOR-8200MK3,AOR-8600MK2
DRAKE-SW2
FUNCUBE DONGLE PRO
GRE-PSR400,GRE-PSR500
GRUNDIG SATELLIT-750
ICOM-PCR1000,ICOM-PCR1500,ICOM-R3,ICOM-R20,ICOM-R71A,ICOM-R75 (2),ICOM-R2500,
ICOM-R7100,ICOM-R8500,ICOM-RX7
KINETIC SBS-3
PALSTAR-R30A
REALISTIC-PRO2035
RFSPACE SDR-IQ
TEN TEC-320D
UNIDEN-15,UNIDEN-245,UNIDEN-396,UNIDEN-780
YAESU-VR500

 

[KC1UA]

I don't want to dredge up an old thread, but by the same token I'm curious as to whether or not there has been any developments/enhancements in this device, particularly in the SDR portion. Info on the web continues to be quite vague. I haven't seen any references to any 3rd party SDR software working with it. It would be nice if the capability existed to view each receiver's reported 8 MHz bandwidth with a waterfall type display. The Basestation software manual addendum that's available via Kinetic's website is pretty clear cut but it seems that the Basestation software is somewhat restrictive in use, given the capability and flexibility of today's SDR's. After all they are called "software defined" for a reason. It almost seems to me that this is a potentially brilliant device that is by and large existing in a vacuum.