On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote:
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett:
I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties.
I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I
can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record as
MP3 for listening at a more convenient time.
My web search turned up little relevant detail.
Suggestions?
TIA
The chipset is important. The RTL2832U is working well and is well suported in
linux.
As GUI most people are using GQRX in linux, but I heard, some windows gui
shall work with wine.
However, my personal success was most time with GQRX.
Maybe you might want to take a deeper look at 2823U-dongles, there are two
different kinds available: One is for 24MHz up to 1,8GHz, the other one is for
100kHz up to 1,8GHz.
The difference between them ist, the one with shortwave capable got TWO
tunerchips inside, one for only shortwave, the other one for vhf and uhf.
Shortwave might be intereresting if you are a radio amateur like me.
Besides, I personally got the one for shortwave not running. It is confirmed
to be possible, the problem here is not the technics, but the operater (say:
me).
Hope this helps a little bit.
It does.
Searching for the various chips mentioned in this thread has been
productive. I suspect a hobbyist has solved most of my problems.
Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity
rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly Boolean
search? TIA
Best
Hans
