On the basis you might not be a troll even though somebody else seems to think
you are here is how you can bring up SDR Console. This presumes, perhaps rashly,
that you have a compatible DAB-T dongle. I further presume you have one of the
standard cheap ones from NOOELEC or RTLSDR.com (GOOD ones!) or similar. Please
read completely before starting the steps.
1) visit
http://zadig.akeo.ie/ and follow the instructions for downloading.
2) Plug in the dongle and let Windows Vista or later trundle until it thinks the
dongle is installed. (Give it a minute or so in case it insists on downloading
the Windows native DAB driver.
3) Run Zadig by right clicking on it and selecting "Run as administrator". If
you don't use "Run as administrator" most likely the installation will not work.
4) From options select the first entry "List All Devices".
From here it gets risky.
5) Scroll down the droplist at the top of the dialog. Notice the numbers that
change on the lower left labeled USB ID. You are looking for specific values on
the left number and right number. If either does not match move on. The most
common numbers for dongles are 0bda on the left and either 2832 or 2838 on the
right. If you do not find one of these numbers stop and ask here with details
about your dongle such as you know them. We can let you know if you have a
compatible dongle. NOTE THAT YOU VERY WELL MIGHT NOT HAVE A COMPATIBLE DONGLE.
If you purchased a generic DAB-T dongle and presumed it will work, you may be a
victim of your presumption.
6) If you found a known RTL dongle ID select the "Replace Driver" button. It
should declare success. At this point the dongle should be connected to the
Windows supplied "WinUSB.sys" driver, which is a dumb shell driver that
applications can use.
7) Now we pause for awhile - long enough that you have run Zadig on a known good
dongle ID candidate. You need an RTLSDR driver and SDR software. That depends on
what you download for an SDR application. Simon's "SDR Radio" is a perfectly
good solution. It can be found at "
http://sdr-radio.com/". Visit that page
first. I'd recommend the V3 beta download. Select the "Version 3" entry. Scroll
down the page to find the download button. Then go back up on the right to
"Getting Started" and start reading. It will tell you what to do from there.
8) (optional) If there are still some problems getting SDR Radio to run, you can
visit by google drive page and download RTLTool. It is in the RTLTool folder at
(mind any possible wraps):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4ImLhg3WKL5fnhRalBOVU8wVmFma1ZzR25LVEZYR0RBMzBwTFh6M0psbkZOei03ZVBDeTQ
You should find and download "RTLTool Distribution 20161210.zip."
You should be able to unzip the archive and run. Select the x86 version as it
also runs on 64 bit machines. It should find your dongle in the drop list. There
are various tests you should be able to run. At the moment simply finding the
dongle is your test. If it is found it will likely work. You can run a transfer
test to see if you USB bus is fast enough. (I'd be very surprised if it is not.)
9) (optional) Once you get SDR Radio working there is an improved rtlsdr.dll
with a whole lot of other work folded into it that's not in the Osmocom tree or
the version that comes in the SDR Radio install. For SDR Radio select the
SDRConsole folder on my google drive page and download the file there. Unzip it.
Then drop the "appropriate* SDRSourceRTL2832UFull.dll, libusb-1.0.dll and
rtlsdr.dll files into the "c:\Program Files\SDR-Radio.com (v3)" folder approving
the copy as needed. Since I do not replace Simon's RTL "SDRSourcecXXX" file you
should simply be able to visit the select radio property page and search for
dongles with the "RTL SDR (FULL)" search options.
So let us know how far you made it. Take your time and do it right. Randomly
installing the WinUSB driver on any old USB ID found can leave you suddenly
without some critical tool such as your USB keyboard or mouse. So please do be
careful. Again the most common "USB ID" values known to work are 0bda 2832 and
0bda 2838.
These steps are known to work on Win 10 as if a couple months ago when I
installed it on a new test machine.
Enjoy!
{^_^} Joanne
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