The FM signal on 29.850MHz Is an alias from 34MHz, the traffic is the Turkish forestry Fire service. The signal showing the selective fading on the left is the Ghadir OTHR from Iran and the two diagnonal sweeps are the ionosonde from near RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.

Very good presentation! informative & nicely paced. Was initially just browsing for SDR info, but now likely to buy this one.

13 minutes in @tech Minds says that SDR Console only lets you go up to 32MHz bandwidth, it does go all the way up to the maximum of 64MHz if you go to "Options" under the "Radio" section of the left hand side controls (While the SDR is running). In there, there is an option to change the "Sampling frequency" to 128 MSPS. Turn the radio off, then on again using the button on the top left and then using the bandwidth dropdown chose 64MHz. My radio is running quite nicely on my laptop at the full 64MHz.

What a monster SDR. Fantastic review!

It seems like very nice advanced SDR. I think I need to work up to the higher end units, since I am just starting out and have very limited income. A dual antenna unit sounds great for serious users. I hope to get a basic unit up for Xmas. Thanks for giving me something to aspire to.

Very sensitive across the entire HF band! Thanks for this positive review of the new RX888!

29.850 was an interesting frequency. Super video as usual Mat.

Geez Mat, what kind of review is this? I want to hear the full spread! In 1KHz intervals! And I want it now!!! I'm kidding. Just thought I'd beat them to it, lol. Anyway, cool video. Very neat little SDR. Not a half bad price, either. If I didn't have my HackRF, I might be looking into one of those. The heatsinks are nice, though I don't know how much they will do as they aren't directly in contact with anything other than the two rather thick TIM pads. Most of the heat they see is what radiates to the case and works its way around to them. That said, it's not like they're hurting anything being there, and it will help evacuate a bit more heat than what it normally would with just a slab sided case. But it is really neat bit of kit with a pretty healthy chunk of bandwidth. I may look into one anyway, lol. Thanks for the video, great stuff as always.

Great video!! Truly inspired by this receiver and awaiting your second review on the higher bands to decide whether it would be a good addition to my shack. Thanks again for all you do! 73

Nice video! Please make more videos on this SDR!

bought mine about a year ago. not long after justin demonstrated it. my 2 year old hp x360 laptop with an i7 10th gen and intel gpu wouldnt run this at anything more then 1 mhz. ended up buying a new asus rog with a 12gen i7 and a 3650 gpu

I'll stick to my bog standard sdrplay...ps enjoying your vids....

Would have been nice to see MW LW and VLF performance

oooow! so funky!

inpoo, sockey and other new words. please, continue.

I had one but it packed up after a few weeks, had a lot of hassle trying to get a refund

Well is about 230€ on Aliexpress... Is it better than RSPdx? I don't think so, but it's advantage is the 64 MHz bandwidth for HF (for whoever needs it)

What time was that AM qso on 3.660 ?

The Cypres driver link goes to a page : content archived ..

Very Good and thanks for this information, N5QDM. 73's

SDR++ official releases do not support the RX888. It won't be supported until the manufacturers release a real library/driver for it. It's an issue if you run Linux.

Impressive specs, but many users report that it stops working after a few weeks/months. Are they all made on a Monday?

great video!

I would much rather have to deal with a normal USB 3.1 port and even an auxiliary power plug if I had to then to rely on a somewhat elusive USB port design that for the most part a lot of stuff is refusing to use. Not to mention if crap ever hit the fan trying to find another USB connector to connect to that if the one that you have happens to break you're pretty much screwed. I just don't understand people when they design stuff like this not thinking about using common off-the-shelf cables instead of something that's practically proprietary as far as ease of locating in a SHTF scenario.

Thanks there aren't many good videos in the rx888 mkii. But you didn't show the see all ham bands at once, see all the FT8 in all of the hf band and the see all shortware broadcast bands at once. By see I mean it opens a separate window broken up with a boxes for each separate spectrum display for each band. Also you can open up another window and define up to 24 seperate receivers from across the whole hf spectrum. You can individually mute and unmute them. Not sure how useful that is with one human listening. Also with the large spectrum display you can see frequency sweeping signals like ionosonde. This appears in two places in this video

Would it have been better if the unit connected to your computer via the router so you can access the RX888 from anywhere in the house over WIFI. but the RX888 would need a LAN interface.

Hi Mat. Can you elaborate a little more about your pc config en hardware? Would an external egpu help?do you require a Thunderbolt3 connection?

Great product. Interested in buying it but it's close to $300 Canadian with exchange and shipping. Ridiculous actually. Might look into the RSPdx instead. Every ham product is double the price if your a Canadian....

Is yours still working Matt ? Tempted to buy another even though the first one stopped working after 2 weeks

Im looming at a desktop PC for controlling SDRs ie SDRPlay Lime SDR and the odd RTL SDR what to recommend stats for a desktop PC ?

I had a look at the link for the drivers for this SDR, but I didn't see a Windows 11 driver listed. Can anyone confirm that the Windows 10 driver would work on a Windows 11 machine?

R828D not the D2? The 820T is now the 860 according to some, what's the real differences here?

Over $200 huh… but sounds good on the air.

Does the sdrAngel software support this device?

let me ask, what kind of antenna are you using for this Video. Discone, Directional, dipole, yagui or what are?

Is there an updated link for the Driver? Following the link in the description says the content has been archived.

Where do the extio files go for SDR++ and SDR#?

Can't seem to find whether or not it's half or full duplex. It must be half. I think it would have 3 antenna ports at least if it was full.

So I just got mine, but the device shows up as "Unknown device", not as Westbridge. Installing the driver as shown in the video does nothing, even after rebooting.

how it could be 64 mhz hf band if hf is covers only 3-30mhz band???

what is a "chippaley"?

Thank for video! Can show how it to connect to SDR++ and SDRSharp?

No more stock at above link @Aliexpress.

Well done. These are made in China as I see. Are they all made in China?

Either all the amateurs have suddenly started transmitting on x.5 - x.6 kHz or your RX888 mk2 isn't calibrated very well.

Whats the current draw? Thanks.

choonachee

So you have a white cat...

I am expecting the test with SDR # software

Will the cypress driver work on Windows with SDR++?

@5:50 “‘restarted my computer” smh it’s 2022...

If rather buy a Hack rf and transmit too for half the price

Is there software for Mac and or iPad?

Starting at 11:39 there is a signal that sweeps from left to right (low to high) across the entire displayed screen. What is it?

Why so many links?

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Don't waste your money. This device is an unstable and unsupported turd. It overheats, locks up, the bias-T doesn't work for more than 2 minutes before overloading and turning off. All of these issues require a reset of the device. Though the RTL-SDR V4 is not as sensitive as the RX888, there are no such issues with it.

The truth is that the RX888 MK2 is not compatible with SDR++ nor SDR#, I didn't find anything about that. It works great with HDSDR and Console, but I prefer HDSDR because it is lighter to process. I see the RX888 as an excellent SDR, but it's clear to me that its manufacturer is lazy. It is a total disregard for the consumer that the manufacturer does not provide libraries for LINUX and MAC or even makes it compatible with the most used software such as SDR# and SDR++, so the product loses competitiveness and lags behind cheaper and simpler models. I love SDR receivers, I have a few models, but by far the best is the 14bit RSP1A, the SDplay software is unbeatable because the manufacturer pays a lot of attention to the product, including making it compatible with other software to the customer's taste, this does not happen with the RX888 which in my opinion is much superior in terms of sensitivity to the RSP1A, but loses out as it has almost no compatibility with any popular software. I hope the manufacturer wakes up in time to save him. :(

No thanks! I will *NO LONGER BUY ANYTHING FROM Aliexpress. RIP OFF!!!!!*

Not very impressive. Expected more