SDRTrunk 0.6.0a6 + Airspy Mini + RTL dongles

[GTR8000]

I'm getting ready to deploy an Airspy Mini to a 0.6.0 alpha6 setup already running two standard RTL dongles, and I'm looking for any firsthand (not anecdotal) experience anyone has had with running an Airspy alongside one or more RTL dongles. I'd prefer reports from someone running a Mini in this configuration, but I'm happy to also read about experiences mixing the R2 with RTL's.

Any issues, or smooth sailing?

[GTR8000]

PS - Replies should be made to the group, not directly to my email, so that others might benefit from the feedback. 

[Dave Thwaites]

I am running an Airspy and 2 sdr-rtl and don't have any issues I have posted pics to show what they are doing 

[MarkJ]

I have one PC running 0.6.0 Alpha 6 with an Airspy Mini set at 6 mhz covering a 700 mhz P25 system, an Airspy R2 running at 10 mhz supplemented by a Nooelec Smart V4 covering an 800 mhz P25 system (the Nooelec dongle is covering frequencies just outside the bottom range of the Airspy R2) and an Airspy Mini running at 6 mhz covering conventional UHF analog and P25. It works fine. It’s still early but Alpha 6  seems to run this set up more more stability than recent versions. I have successfully had a fifth dongle running on this PC in the past but it hasn’t worked well with recent SDRTrunk versions. I haven’t tried it yet with Alpha 6. 

On Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 5:15:43 PM UTC-4 GTR8000 wrote:

[Bernard Nicoll]

V6 A6 smooth sailing, no issues with multiple 4 x RTLs and 5 x R2.

Le sam. 27 mai 2023, à 16 h 21, 'GTR8000' via sdrtrunk <sdrt...@googlegroups.com> a écrit :

I'm getting ready to deploy an Airspy Mini to a 0.6.0 alpha6 setup already running two standard RTL dongles, and I'm looking for any firsthand (not anecdotal) experience anyone has had with running an Airspy alongside one or more RTL dongles. I'd prefer reports from someone running a Mini in this configuration, but I'm happy to also read about experiences mixing the R2 with RTL's.

Any issues, or smooth sailing?

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[GTR8000]

Thanks, appreciate the feedback and visuals!

[GTR8000]

Outstanding, that sounds pretty similar to what I'll be doing, minus the R2 in the mix. I don't expect to run into any issues, the Mini is replacing one NooElec so no additional dongles are being added and the workload will be the same, taking into account the 6 MHz of spectrum of the Mini vs the NooElec's 2.56, however the PC is more than up to the task (dedicated to running nothing but SDRTrunk, in fact). Thanks again!

[GTR8000]

Thank you as well for the excellent feedback and visuals!

[dave38...@gmail.com]

I had pretty smooth sailing up to 050 beta 6 running 1 nooelec and 1 Airspy mini . Then something changed but now, the latest 060 Alpha 6 seems to be running real smooth. My mini  (@6mhz)  runs 2 phase 2 systems and the nooelec (@2.56)  runs one phase 1.   The only thing I had to do with this version was set a start order for the dongles, something I never had to do before.  I also run UT so after starting that, I disabled the second nooelec dongle in SDRT and can now start up UT and SDRT in any order. I have run more than one nooelec with the mini and never had to change serial numbers.  

I also only use this SDRT to record tg's of interest. I rarely play anything live so every tg's "listen" value is set to off. I do all playback thu TR.

[GTR8000]

Thanks, Dave, appreciate the additional feedback. I anticipate smooth sailing, as this is hardly my first rodeo when it comes to SDRTrunk.