Brandenburg
Member
OK, so I'm a noob but love to learn....
Although I recently picked up a scanner, I'm actually interested in shortwave and have long wanted to get into SW listening.
Anywhooo -- I found the Grundig Satellit 750 at RadioShack for only $300 and thought it might be a good starter radio. However, I really love the idea of using my computer to control my radios as I'm much more of a computer geek than a radio geek.
I've found several radio systems which seem to fit the bill -- such as the
SRL QuickSilver QS1R Receiver (which seems to have some really awesome SDR Max software) QuickSilver
and I found the RFspace recievers SDR-IQ,SDR-IP, SDR-14 at Home
I'm attracted to the software recievers because I think I'll learn the systems much more quickly and because it's so visual.
I was wondering what opinions you all have on these systems? I really don't know much about any of it, but I'd be happy to invest a little money to learn. I'm afraid I'd wind up getting bored with one of the smaller, more simple recievers.
Although I recently picked up a scanner, I'm actually interested in shortwave and have long wanted to get into SW listening.
Anywhooo -- I found the Grundig Satellit 750 at RadioShack for only $300 and thought it might be a good starter radio. However, I really love the idea of using my computer to control my radios as I'm much more of a computer geek than a radio geek.
I've found several radio systems which seem to fit the bill -- such as the
SRL QuickSilver QS1R Receiver (which seems to have some really awesome SDR Max software) QuickSilver
and I found the RFspace recievers SDR-IQ,SDR-IP, SDR-14 at Home
I'm attracted to the software recievers because I think I'll learn the systems much more quickly and because it's so visual.
I was wondering what opinions you all have on these systems? I really don't know much about any of it, but I'd be happy to invest a little money to learn. I'm afraid I'd wind up getting bored with one of the smaller, more simple recievers.