This new model has a metal case, three antenna connectors and several circuitry upgrades that make it the performance leader in the SDRplay line-up.
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@tech29X Жыл бұрын
This is a must watch for anyone starting out with SDR play or SDR in general. It took me weeks to fiddle around with overwhelming settings/options and still didn't know about some things until i watched this video. Thank you for a well thought out thorough presentation all under 15 minutes.👍👍👍
@robertnagy2163 Жыл бұрын
That's EXACTLY what I try to do in my videos. Nobody has the time to try to decipher gobity-gook manuals or piece-together what the heck complex technologies actually are- from KZfaq videos. I try not to waste your time. Thanks!
@josstark8124 Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Just purchased an SDR-DX and this was an excellent primer.
@MrBanzoid4 жыл бұрын
Hi from the UK. Just got one of these a couple of weeks and I'm just scratching the surface of what it can do. Thanks for the review, it's most useful. 73 de Malc M0IYI
@vincei42523 жыл бұрын
Robert, I just passed my Tech and General and have had this radio on my work desk for months waiting for the day I can finally do more. Now that I have started to use it for real I must say that it is a shockingly good radio. I'm impressed. Maybe I'm biased coming from the UK but it has far exceeded my expectations especially after struggling with some of the cheaper dongles out there. One thing I wish it could do is transmit, even if it was a only couple hundred milliwatts.
@barrykery11753 жыл бұрын
WOW ! What an outstanding demo. I have the RSP Play 1 and I'm very happy with it. The one feature I like about the DX model is that you can view up to a 10 mhz slice of the spectrum. Now that's impressive. You mentioned a nice list of things you can listen to. Here's one thing it can be used for that you may not have thought of? Setting up a TV antenna. With today's TV, to see if you can pick up a signal with the outside antenna one may have just installed, you have to tell the TV to scan.....and then wait until it's done scanning. With the display you get using the SDR and the software, you can have someone turn the antenna until the signals are shown and shown at the maximum signal strength. I love my SDR play. Don't think I'll upgrade to the newer model since I'm very happy with what I already have. Thanks for putting the time aside to make such a great informative video. Well done ! Barry, KU3X
@Bdub19524 жыл бұрын
Once you wrap your head around SDRuno, it is an amazing interface.
@petehersten74032 жыл бұрын
I have the RSPdx..Now all one needs is 30 or 40 antennas to take advantage of all the freqs. LOL Love the RSPdx, I mostly use it as a panadapter for my IC 7300..wonderful little SDR.
@Zany4God3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your vlog on the RSPdx and review of the software. You presented the material in a very easy-to-understand way. I've been a dx'er over the years, and now I'm ready to launch into the SDR world. I have settled on the RSPdx. It seems to be a high-quality receiver. Again, thank you for taking the time to make this video.
@MatthiasLenardt3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing. This was really compact and beneficial news. ... really amazing this topic!
@electronics.unmessed Жыл бұрын
Many thanks for the comprehensive review. I am just starting with RSPdx. I used it to compare 70cm Antennas.
@andrewmcfarland574 жыл бұрын
Ecellent review. This really is the go-to sdr for amateurs of all fields.
@timb46554 жыл бұрын
Super review. I've just found your channel and really appriciate your calm and logical delivery and format. Thank you. 73 de 2E0IEH
@k4fbimike4812 жыл бұрын
The best value in radio monitoring equipment. Incredible performance for the cost!. If you are willing and able to configure a computer to work with the fine SDRuno software you will not be disappointed. Nice overview Bob. 73
@dw.imaging2 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine if this device had an Ethernet port and could be controlled over your LAN or WLAN via TCP/IP instead of USB. Would love it.
@JamesJ78514 жыл бұрын
Good review Bob. I received a RSPdx from one of the first shipment in the US. Works well with a multitude of software packages, my current favorite is SDR Console. I enjoy the capability of Console, to use multiple receiver slices with that program. IMO the RSPdx is a powerful receiver, but overkill for panadapter service. As an FYI to others, I did not notice much difference between the RSP1 and the RSPdx in that limited role.
@Yavor544 жыл бұрын
The DX and the 1A are very similar animals inside. I concur on your points.
@gertjandembele65834 жыл бұрын
Amazing presentation Bob
@therabbitchannel20593 жыл бұрын
I got one and it's an awesome radio. I have a few radios. Just got a Sangean ATS 909X and a Superadio2. This RSPdx with a cheap loop antenna is wiping the floor with them. I'm starting to think it's a superhet killer. On MW there's a signal almost every 10khz. The spectrum display looks like a porcupine. I think RSPdx broke new ground with the expanded bandwidth and I also think SDR is the most exciting thing to happen in radio since Armstrong invented the superhet.
@robertnagy21633 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, Superhet IS dead. It will just take 5 more years for them to disappear.
@af4od024 жыл бұрын
Excellent review. Thanks
@stelluspereira9 ай бұрын
Thankyou Sir fir the review It seems no SDR software for MacOS compatible
@robertallen3133 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video
@seasparrow7427 Жыл бұрын
I'm buying that... TAKE MY MONEY!!!!👍
@stevenblack1224 жыл бұрын
Packaged antenna plans for voice reception would be great value for general usage
@perseus99683 жыл бұрын
Nice video. What about Voltage and Current of the Bias Tee ?
@murlik14 жыл бұрын
Amazing presentation like always 73 from VE3BDE
@JR-lx8nn2 жыл бұрын
Nice, well scripted overview. Says a lot in a short time. JR
@Indypackrat3 жыл бұрын
I'm new to the radio world. I have been using a Radiwow R-108 for a year now. I'm having a lot of fun. Planning on getting my Ham ticket eventually. Right now just focusing on learning. I'm looking to upgrade so that I can get the side bands. I have been hearing a lot of great things about the SDRplay. Its a little intimidating, do you think its to much of a leap for a fairly new guy in the hobby?
@robertallen3133 Жыл бұрын
Can someone please tell me and help me out ( please ) which is better the RSPduo or the RSPdx i want to spend my money wisely and thank you. 5/01/23
@dmkays3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if with the 10mhz bandwidth if anyone has developed software to view ota TV signals? Should be able to pick them up with a homebrew butterfly antenna, or even a wet noodle if you are close enough.
@Homer195214 жыл бұрын
Great job, Bob. Did you figure out what the uniformly spaced spikes were on 20M (~7minutes)? I've a couple HF+'s & an old SDRPlay. This new dx maybe worth a try.
@Uncle_Buzz4 жыл бұрын
Hey Robert, just curious (unrelated question)... Do you get some amount of confusion when operating CW (if you do) with the 5N at the end of your call? Cheers! Chris - NI7I
@tanha81782 жыл бұрын
Very nice video mister
@lacigolden2 жыл бұрын
How can you fine tune on ham bands 10 hz or 100hz increments?
@Marco_IK2CHZ3 жыл бұрын
Great video Robert! 73, Marco IK2CHZ - K2CHZ
@paulhastings31093 жыл бұрын
Tnxs great service 73
@rayhill1855 Жыл бұрын
WOW Amazing
@dougtaylor77242 жыл бұрын
Can you have it on say 160 meters and key up a 100 watt radio on 40 meters? For instance a 500 foot wire on the SDR and a tower with a dipole 250 feet apart?
@Yavor542 жыл бұрын
No. At the price point of $150 usd, it doesn't have a robust enough front end to resist another transmitter close-spaced. To handle that one really needs brick-wall filtering as is done with the Icom Digi-Sel tracking pre-filters. There are HF bandpass filters available for isolating close-spaced radios (as in contest operation) which would work.
@jerryk7er6863 жыл бұрын
Bob.. If I am running the SDR RSPdx the same time as my 100 watt Yaesu FTDX10 any I key up the radio will it damage the SDR I have a vertical I use for HF and I also have a endfed wire antenna kind of close to each other
@robertnagy21633 жыл бұрын
You need to be sure that the RSPdx is not connected to an antenna near the FTdx-10's antenna... when it is transmitting. If it is set up as an additional display for the FTdx-10, then it's ant input MUST be grounded during the transmit cycle.
@ON6KE3 жыл бұрын
Hello Robert, you mention 'do NOT expose the RSPdx to high RF fields' in the presentation. I have a TS-590SG and an ACOM 1000. If I connect the RSPdx to the DRV RCA port of the 590SG, will the RSPdx survive it the 590SG on-off pumping 1 kW out through the ACOM 1000 ? I know the 590SG mentions 20dbm leakage, that is very good isolation. Then again I'm talking RF getting out of the ACOM 1000, it will produce RF nomatter what cable I use, RG213 and H100. Also my 30m antenna dipole end is about 15 feet away from me. What do you think, will the RSPdx survive all this RF? 73, good DX and stay safe. Gust ON6KE
@NuclearCowboyTube2 жыл бұрын
put it in a 2nd metal box and you're done
@frankfarrell81633 жыл бұрын
Fine business Bob, Your 5&9, over.
@robertnagy21633 жыл бұрын
Roger velcro old man.
@radiolens5364 жыл бұрын
Nice review Bob. Unless I've just missed it, I don think you've reviewed the Kenwood TS-980S as compared to the Icom IC-7610. Do you have any plans for the it?
@Yavor544 жыл бұрын
I do not. Why? It's old technology. It is just a one-receiver TS-990s. There may be slight circuit differences, but nothing of note. When the 890 and the FTdx-101D were released at Dayton 2 years ago, NOBODY was in the Kenwood booth. Everyone was in the Yaesu booth. I have no interest in gasoline cars for the same reason. I'm not into yesterday's technology. If you think the old ways are best, you buy a 1972 pick-up. If you're into cutting-edge tech, you buy a Tesla. (and the 890 isn't even a good value)
@sincerelyyours75384 жыл бұрын
@@Yavor54 I tend to agree, Bob, but I'm also a realist with a small wallet. I buy used hybrid cars and ham gear because that is all I can afford. My SDRPlay RSPdx is my first new HF RX of any kind and I'm overwhelmed by its many features. I also own a 38-year-old Kenwood TS-830s but before I key its mic for the first time I want to know what's out there and how to properly access it. Your review helped me configure my new SDR so I can listen in on what other people are doing. Now all I need is a 100-watt HF DX antenna I can put up on a house with no yard whatsoever - not an easy task, alas.
@antalperge1007 Жыл бұрын
Nagy Robi 🇭🇺 Hungarian ancestors 😍 Is is any better on HF, or only on LW? Thnx
@Yavor54 Жыл бұрын
It is OK on all the frequencies it covers. LW is good...MW good.. HF good...VHF good UHF a little less sensitive. For $150 usd this is the best receiver you can buy! The correct price really should be $500
@LivePDOfficerInterviews4 жыл бұрын
Wow! That’s cool. That’s something I need. Thanks for the great video my friend. Will it decide CW? Or is that done through fldigi? Any decision yet? Lol Let me ask you an “ethical question” here... let’s say your rig cannot pick up a signal you’re trying to have a quick QR so with so you can log it as a contact but your STR play DX unit does. Would you consider that to be a real “QSO” since the return transmission wasn’t heard on your rig?
@SDRplayRSP4 жыл бұрын
SDRuno demodulates all the popular analogue formats (CW, AM, FM, Wideband stereo FM, SSB etc.)
@Joetechlincolns4 жыл бұрын
Well, way back in the day, receivers and transmitters were separate. If your at home or someplace where no one can see how you operate, who needs to know?
@Harvestersz3 жыл бұрын
I hope this isn't a dumb question .... but how do I ground this radio as you suggest in the video? The unun (53ft wire) that I am using has a ground lug, which I have running to a ground rod. Is this sufficient, or do I also need to ground the SDR? Any help would be much appreciated.
@Yavor543 жыл бұрын
No, that is adequate grounding. As a receiver only, grounding is less important than if you were transmitting. Good grounding will insure you have the most flawless reception. (least false signals on the screen)
@Harvestersz3 жыл бұрын
@@Yavor54 Thank You for the information.
@mktwatcher3 жыл бұрын
It's really too bad you didn't include of the the actual audio output from the new design.
@paulkendall344 жыл бұрын
Will it pick up p25 phase 1 and 2 ? And will it de code the transmission? I'm only interested in something that can listen to p25! Dont know what will work ?
@Yavor544 жыл бұрын
Not natively. I suggest a Uniden BCD536HP
@larrygall58314 жыл бұрын
I would imagine it would pick up the comms, but you need to decode using other software. I use OP25 (not with one of these, just regular dongles), but it's Linux. I hear SDRTrunk works for it, then there's always Unitrunker / DSD+ (I hear it does phase 2 now.)
@josevictorec3 жыл бұрын
where in the US can i buy the RSPdx, not at HR i dont like their attitude.
@Billiemarie10003 жыл бұрын
Actually it is not so easy to send the audio out to anything like those programs you show at the end.
@petermartinsen41714 жыл бұрын
With Bluetooth in the near Future ?
@denelson833 жыл бұрын
And what about ATSC digital television?????
@richstilke12274 жыл бұрын
You really can listen to only one band. The software (SDRUNO), is terrible! You can't dial around, with the exception of the scroll wheel of your mouse. If you try to dial in a freq in SDRUNO it goes to 1.000 and you can't change that.
@derekthompson19734 жыл бұрын
szs
@fashnek4 жыл бұрын
1:39 -- what is the deal with putting sound ranges & sonic/ultrasonic classificiations on the same continuum diagram as EM waves? It makes no sense and conveys no useful information. In fact I call it actively harmful. Why not put CPUs on there? My CPU runs 3.6 GHz, maybe it should be listed there in the SHF range too? My clock ticks at 1 Hz, I suppose that makes it ULF so it's not in the radio spectrum. Oh, and ELF is part of the radio spectrum...
@Yavor544 жыл бұрын
That is just a generic radio spectrum chart. That is shows there is spectrum outside the capabilities of this SDR is - inconsequential.
@dcolb1219 ай бұрын
You're "popping" your mic. Put on a pop filter or back away some.
@Yavor549 ай бұрын
Yup, some popping "p's" there. Got that straightened out a few years back. Tnx- Bob