Blaze Freeview Tv Guide

[Amilcar Labrosse]

Iconnected the dongle to a standard TV aerial (as opposed to my ham radio antenna) for this test. The first thing that Blaze does once it find the dongle, is perform a channel scan, and it correctly found all of the Freeview channels on offer in my area. Access to the Freeview channels was pretty straightforward, and the Blaze software supports access to the electronic programme guide, has recording facilities and lets you capture screenshots of live TV

From Blaze, switching to DAB digital radio for the first time caused the Blaze software to start another scan. The scan took quite a while as it scanned quite a wide range of frequencies. After several minutes, it returned a list of 88 received DAB stations from several multiplexes. Audio quality was very good, and the app has a pretty good interface, as pictured here:

Obviously, this is perfect for TV and DAB radio reception, but as mine was more for ham and VHF work, I snipped off the UHF coax plug and replaced it with a BNC, which I could then connect to a more useful antenna. Worth a try if you want some decent results.

I own one of the original FunCube Dongles (4th one shipped when they first became available) and I think you are being a bit unfair with your comparison between the devices, personally I found the FunCube Dongle much, much easier to install than the RTL devices.

I have been using one of these to listen to the satellites as you can watch a very large bandwidth at a time. I do get interference from time to time, so SAW filters would improve this. For a cheap route into SDR this is a must, you can get one for under 10.00 delivered from

We had Chris M6EDF on the Monday Night Net tonight, explaining the issue with Easyjet. You have to apply for a waiver with the CAA to be able to send off a balloon, you have to check the predicted flightpath to keep it away from London and major airports, and you have to call the local airfields before launch so they can advise local pilots.

The dongle mentioned here will allow you to receive aircraft transponders, and this page explains the basics of the connectivity and software. If you don;t want to go the dongle route, there are various web-based and smartphone apps that allow real-time flight tracking. Hope that helps.

Hi, I need your help! I bought Mini Digital TV USB Stick and lost my drivers CD. I tried to find them on internet, but I could`t. Maybe you can copy them from your mini cd and send to my email? I don`t need blaze software, just drivers! This is my email : mantg...@gmail.com

A tip to share also about the rather low performance antenna which comes with a mini magmount. Dont waste your time with it, chop the cable say ten inches from the mini mcx connector and solder your own usable sized connector onto chopped end, BNC chassis socket or SO239. Then link it to decent antenna for the outside world.

I am trying to install ADSBscope, but I cannot see an obvious .exe file in the download. The first folder that I have is adsb-all and I searched the subsequent folders. Have I downloaded the correct software?

After reading about the use of a dongle up a pole,withe 23cms yagi. going to try the same stunt here have ordered the long usb cable.And going to make a 23cms quagi they are quick to build.

Just to see what happens if not down to 70cms and put the Parabeam made by J beams.

I also found an artical on low cost relays for masthead preamps and been tested over here. so getting 4 of the bliters!.

73`s jon`CCL.

Will try to get to chelmsford meeting,looks interesting.

sorry it shoud have said

anyone know why i get sdrsharp is not a valid win32 app ?

i have tryed it on 3 pc running win732 bit win764 bit and xp 32bit

all with the notice

cheers jim

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