LimeSDR under SDR-Console

[n5fpp]

Well, sad to hear. SDR-Console is one of those packages that makes me question not using Windows for my station PC.

[SimonG4ELI]

I didn’t buy the enclosure - plastic enclosures are of no use at all. I bought the good metal enclosure for my B200, that’s worth having.

[andrewback]

@SimonG4ELI

CPU is not too bad, but you do need a CUDA card for this sort of FFT

Is there are OpenCL support? I have a PC for video editing that runs Windows, with a decent GPU, albeit not CUDA…

[SimonG4ELI]

No, just CUDA.

[Kc7noa]

Simon works in Windows and has for some time …

[martywittrock]

Simon,

I pulled this down just now and will test it when I get home for HF. Do I have to uninstall the other versions or just load this one on, too? Please advise when you get a chance - thanks,

de Marty, KN0CK

[joshblum]

@martywittrock

I was re-reading your post the other day and failed to answer your question on V1.2 hardware with GQRX. I haven’t been successful yet loading the new software onto the V1.2 board and trying it. I tried a couple of days after the release using the new LimeSuite tool and it would not load the board - came back with an error. I even tried to load the new software using the old school method of loading the .img and .rbf files manually and it errored out during the load. So I’m still on the old firmware with the V1.2 hardware for now. Wish I could load the new firmware because I have a notion that it would probably work fine because of the flipped bits in the new V1.4 HW. Keep us advised on your progress there - thanks, Josh.

What was the error? I just tried loading recent images on my v1.2 which I had put away. LimeUtil --update worked beautifully. If there are any remaining issues with the loader, I would like to fix them before tagging a new release and making binaries.

After updating, the LimeUtil --make should report:

Device name: LimeSDR-USB
  Expansion name: UNSUPPORTED
  Firmware version: 3
  Hardware version: 2
  Protocol version: 1
  Gateware version: 1
  Gateware revision: 20
  Gateware target: LimeSDR-USB

[SimonG4ELI]

Marty,

It’s proper software, no need to uninstall,

[martywittrock]

Simon,

All good - I’ll install it this evening and give it a whirl. I have it on my Flash Drive now to take home. Standby for more news as I have it.

73 de Marty, KN0CK

[martywittrock]

@joshblum,

I’ll have to update my primary Linux machine this evening to install the latest LimeSuite and perform this unless I can do the same thing from a Windows Commandline - please advise on that, Josh.

73 de Marty, KN0CK

[joshblum]

Yes please try latest limesuite on a linux machine, built from source. I’m curious to see if the v1.2 behaves the same or not.

There was a fix for downloading images under windows, and my current installer will cause an error until new one is updated. If thats the error that you were referring to.

[martywittrock]

@joshblum,

Okay - I’ll do my best to perform a straight update to what I have on my Linux box this evening while I’m checking out Simon’s SDRConsole on my Windows box. Once that’s completed, I’ll try the update of V1.2 hardware on my Linux box to see if it updates better than from Windows. When I tried to do the update from Windows (which caused errors) I was using the LimeSuite tools to do that auto-update - - that’s when it errored-out.

More to follow later - stay tuned,

73 de Marty, KN0CK

[nn4f_radio]

@SimonG4ELI,

Simon installed and running on 1.4 and works good on 2.5-20mhz on the i3 laptop, haven’t had a chance to run on the beast radio PC yet, but so far so good…down to 30mhz through 1ghz, haven’t tried higher yet…

Paul

[nn4f_radio]

I did notice there is a new img file 1.4r2.6.rbf, should this be installed?

[nn4f_radio]

@SimonG4ELI,

Answered my own question, installed HW1.4r2.6.rbf, no issues, and at 10Msps, I’m not seeing any FM images above 108mhz, before I was getting BFM signals repoeated at around 110-120mhz, so that seems OK now, but I did see some images at 32mhz… And obviously no HF yet, but seems more stable here and same gain settings as before and it seems a little better rx, but still way down on the RSP and even my RTLv3, could be antenna issues… I did have a bad sma to .fl cable… Will continue to test…

Paul

[martywittrock]

Simon,

I’m seeing NO FM images in the HF band like before and what I do see is random and AM-like (main carrier with sidebands that raise and then fall quickly - may have bearing on a tune procedure - - but not annoying, they do disappear). And like Paul is seeing, there is no HF but we know that’s forthcoming.

GOOD JOB ON THIS RELEASE…!! Enthused about what’s ahead…

73 de Marty, KN0CK

[joshblum]

For the HF tuning, as anyone put in a test tone and checked in the spectrum where it shows up? Here is a 17 MHz tone showing up correctly in GQRX (my laptop was struggling to keep up) . The tuning checks out, 20 MHz center frequency was requested, the LO is set to 30 MHz, and the NCO is set to -10.

[Kc7noa]

That must be WWV on the left edge …

[SimonG4ELI]

Marty,

Paul wrote that he is seeing HF - please confirm this with Paul.

[martywittrock]

@SimonG4ELI,

I’m seeing HF on my new V1.4 HW Lime (able to tune there) but I’m not seeing activity yet - I think that’s forthcoming in the FGPA loads, right? I may be a little behind since I’m also playing with updating my Linux box now, too. Let me know if I’m not up to date here - 73 de Marty, KN0CK