
Thin welding rod or similar would also be suitable. Strip the ends if required and fasten the two wires into one side of the "chocbloc" The wire needs to be stiff enough to support its own weight - I used thick plastic covered gardening wire that I found in the shed.

Find a "choc bloc" connector block and cut a section off 2 blocs long.įind a piece of stiff wire and cut two lengths 53.5cm long. To get yourself going you can build a very simple antenna. Really old kit seems to struggle to do this bit for some reason - Ive had issues changing the driver on a really old laptop. Make sure you select the right device then choose the Win USB v6.xxxxxx driver and allow Zadig to change the driver. Select the DTT dongle, you may need to tick the Options - other devices box if nothing shows up. Windows will install the wrong drivers, so run the Zadig software.

So first of all you need to get the computer to see the sdr dongle. Virtual Cable software to pipe the audio from SDR# to WXtoImg I shall give you a basic guide to setting up a windows decoding station.Īn sdr dtt dongle - Im using a nooelec I had lying aroundĪn antenna of some sort (to begin with a very simple one will suffice) Getting a basic wxsat system up and running actually isnt too difficult.
