AirSpy Discovery

[Marcus Ramos]

Gentleman:

May be this is not the right place to ask this but searching the web, some GitHub repositories and etc one of this search results drove me to a message from this group where there was some discussion about AirSpy HF+ (basically the same Discovery) x SoapySDR x low audio or low baseband levels.

Do SparkSDR uses SoapySDR as a part of it? If positive, this low level issue exists?

73 Marcus PY2PLL + PY3CRX

[ahop...@googlemail.com]

Hi Marcus,

in normal use Spark does not use soapysdr for the airspy radios. You maybe able to make it use soapy by disabling the airspy driver and enabling soapy. I don't remember any issues and don't have a radio to test with.

Hope that helps.

73 Alan M0NNB

[Marcus Ramos]

Hi Alan:

It helped for sure. I thought that SparkSDR uses Soapy "core" as the driver for any hardware and this issue with AirSpy Discovery / HF+ was addressed in some way (changing parameters in Soapy before compilinhg or something like that).

I opened a ticket under Pothos\SoapySDR on GitHub but reading the ticket answers seems that the project has stopped a couple of years ago.

Anyway, I was trying to figure how to solve this Soapy issue because I'm using (I'm an end user, not programmer) Alex VE3NEA's SkyRoof app, a satellite tracking program that include several add-ons such as doppler compensation, rotor controller, CAT interface and ... built in SDR + waterfall ... to operate full duplex; the SDR part is the Soapy modules. Works ok with RTL-SDR but vy low gain on AirSpy.

Thanks for the support.

73 Marcus PY2PLL + PY3CRX