RX888 MkII on Amazon

[Tom M]

I am seeing the RX888 MkII on Amazon for about $220. Just wondering if it is legit. The photos of the unit look as expected except that the "RX-888" logo does not appear on the case. Appreciate an input from the experts.

Thanks.

73, Tom

K1FR

[Terry Bullett]

Tom,

Buy one, test it and you can be the expert! 

73,

W0SAP

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[William Liporace]

The good news is that Amazon has a great return policy!
Long as you have the time to work with it in the usual short term!!
I already own two Red Pitaya devices and one low cost Red Pitaya clone.. 
I don't have room for that many antennas!! 

Will WC2L 

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[David Eckhardt]

Terry, with the tax refund, I finally jumped in and now have an R888MKII.  I haven't yet connected it to anything.  Maybe tomorrow?

Dave - WØLEV 

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[Selwyn Cathcart]

Love to hear your comments on the RX-888 SDRs performance, and thoughts on suitable software. I hope to use one for 10m, 6m, 2m and 70cm FT8 and WSPR for real time skimming and uploading? Any body any thoughts please?

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[Bob Gerzoff]

My approach has been slightly different. I wanted a CW skimmer that would provide spots more relevant to my QTH than the ones that pop up in the clusters. I got a Web-888 https://www.rx-888.com/web/ and have all the parts to set things up except one, a round tuit. Those seem to be so hard to come by. Once I find one and get things set up, I’ll report back.

 

Slightly more seriously, I was thinking of getting a standalone mini-PC for running CW Skimmer. If anyone has had any experience using one of those, I’d love to hear their thoughts.

 

 

73,

Bob, WK2Y

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[Steven Davidson]

Not as a CW Skimmer, but I'm using an $80 Beelink T5 running Debian 12.10 for Allstar, DVSwitch and support software (Allmon3, Supermon 7.4+ and AllScan. Soon to add DVSwitcher). It's been absolutely solid. A few bucks more than an RPi5 w/4-8 gB RAM and a cooling fan, but more reliable in my opinion w/64 gB emmc storage module rather than a micro-SDCard.

YMMV

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73 de K3FZT / Steve 

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[ghby...@k9trv.org]

I’m using a very powerful minisforum i9-13900H mini-PC to run wsprdaemon right now.  Yes, it’s about $840, but it is very powerful. Regular $1049 with $210 instant coupon.  With its small size, and SFP+ optical ethernet ports, it could be mounted with the RX888 at the antenna, and run the fiber into the home switch.  My Ubiquiti switches would support that.

MINISFORUM MS-01 Mini Workstation Core i9-13900H 32GB RAM 1TB SSD Mini PC, HDMI+2X USB4 8K Display, 2x10G SFP+ Port, 2x2.5G LAN Port, Support M.2 2280/22110/U.2 SSD/RTX 3050 Graphics Cards

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZKMVYT3?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1

 

BTW the RX888 is from aliexpress a month or so ago, for about $204 with shipping.  From the ‘HamRadioTech store’ on aliexpress.  It claims $206.45 including all duties.  I have had very good results with AliExpress, except for a year ago when the scammer was selling fake RX888 units on AliExpress.  Frankly I’ve had similar bad experience with domestic eBay sellers, and a few domestic Amazon sellers.

 

I’ll let you know whether I pay any additional fees (tariff) on delivery.  Right now, I’m running one RX888 on a Pixel Technologies loop antenna with its PixelTech preamp (on an i9-11900K), and the other is using the DXE RSVE1 short vertical antenna and the minisforum i9 computer.  I’ve got a few spare desktop PCs that would match or exceed that computer’s spec, with the third RX888, and an N6GN SaS that I will build after Hamvention.  I have all the components; I just also happen to need to move the TAPR store to Ohio for next week…

 

73

George Byrkit, K9TRV

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