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No signals

Open kevtheskin opened this issue 3 years ago • 7 comments

Hello there, I have been playing around with this with my rtlv3 dongle and patch and i get no signals. In gqrx i can see what looks like sporadic peaks at about 1.621 ghz onwards but no decode in gr-iridium. Anyone had the same issues?

Cheers Kev

kevtheskin avatar Aug 06 '21 13:08 kevtheskin

Can you send us a screenshot of what you see in gqrx? You are most likely to see something around 1.626 GHz

schneider42 avatar Aug 06 '21 13:08 schneider42

Can you send us a screenshot of what you see in gqrx? You are most likely to see something around 1.626 GHz

Hi there, I am seeing what looks like intermittent wifi type peaks across the whole band. I can see inmarsat 54w ok and my location is Scotland. Thank you for the reply

kevtheskin avatar Aug 06 '21 13:08 kevtheskin

Latest update . I have installed the rtlsdrblog updated driver on my windows box and I can see lots of signals using sdr#. I did the update on my linux box and i could see signals for a short while using Gqrx and Gr-iridium and now nothing. Went back to my windows box and can still see lots of signals? Confused :(

kevtheskin avatar Aug 12 '21 11:08 kevtheskin

Which exact SDR are you using? If you don't know for sure a picture might help.

I know that R820t tuner based devices can have difficulties tuning to such high frequencies. The tend to overheat in this case and I believe the PLL for the LO loses lock in that case. Maybe sdr# somehow configures the tuner in a different way, avoiding the issue.

schneider42 avatar Aug 12 '21 12:08 schneider42

Which exact SDR are you using? If you don't know for sure a picture might help.

I know that R820t tuner based devices can have difficulties tuning to such high frequencies. The tend to overheat in this case and I believe the PLL for the LO loses lock in that case. Maybe sdr# somehow configures the tuner in a different way, avoiding the issue.

Hi there, I have 2x Rtlsdr v3

kevtheskin avatar Aug 12 '21 13:08 kevtheskin

Could you give the --raw-capture a try and upload the result somewhere? Maybe we can see something there.

schneider42 avatar Feb 01 '22 22:02 schneider42

@kevtheskin let me know if you are still working on this. Otherwise I will close the issue.

schneider42 avatar Mar 25 '22 01:03 schneider42