On Jun 25, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/24/25 7:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > 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. > > > > I've been following links which led to multiple levels more ..... > > Any suggested mailing lists or USENET groups to lurk on so this newbie > would get an idea of what to search for?
I don't know of any offhand -- I've got a couple of ham buddies I usually bounce questions off of on a closed IRC channel, because otherwise you find yourself buying gold-plated monster cables or something; since it seems that's become a thing (or well, "just buy stuff" rather than "build stuff"). You can shoot me an email offlist if you want. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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