Question about the Realtek DVB adapters

[joetnymedic]

Guys,
A few months ago I bought one of the dongles that everyone was talking about. tested it out and after someone helped me, I got it to work pretty well using a mobile antenna I had laying around. Between then and now, I wound up replacing my computer and forr the life of me, I can't get it working. I have windows 7 installed so it's not that. Are there any decent videos I can look at out there so I can get this thing running again?

Thanks,
joe

 

[DaveNF2G]

Were you running Windows 7 before? There are some extra considerations involved in getting SDR (or just about anything else) working under Windows 7 compared to other versions of Windows.

There are also two versions of Zadig (the driver installer) now - one for Windows XP and the other for other versions of Windows. During the past few months, the install procedures have been refined and scripts have been written for at least a couple of Windows versions to automate the process and make sure you end up with the correct and latest versions of everything.

The best place for discussions about getting any dongle running with SDRSharp is the SDRSharp list on Yahoogroups.

You should also visit
sdrsharp [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage
and
Welcome to the rtlsdr.org wiki! [rtlsdr.org wiki]
for further instructions and advice.