{"id":44596,"date":"2020-08-02T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44596"},"modified":"2020-08-03T07:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:15:40","slug":"new-dragonfly-wide-band-sdr-with-32-mhz-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/new-dragonfly-wide-band-sdr-with-32-mhz-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dragonfly wide band SDR with 32 MHz bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Franco (K4VZ), who writes:<\/p>\n

Last night I came across a new SDR receiver from China called ‘RX-666’<\/a>. On paper its specs are interesting: 16bit ADC, max sample rate 32MHz (in theory one could sample the whole LW+MW+SW bands at the same time), USB 3 interface, and tunable from 1kHz to 1.8GHz.<\/p>\n

Its design seems to be a “derivative” of Oscar Steila’s (IK1XPV) BBRF103 SDR – see this post from Oscar<\/a> – it looks like they upgraded the ADC, made use of a better voltage regulator, and moved to a 4-layer PCB (the original was a 2-layer PCB).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Unfortunately (for Linux people like me) they only have proprietary drivers running on Windows.<\/p>\n

Besides the AliExpress store, I saw it is also available on eBay – the AliExpress vendor has two versions, a cheaper one with a ‘standard crystal’, and a more expensive one with an ‘upgraded crystal’; I messaged them earlier to find out what is the difference between the two, but I haven’t heard back yet.<\/p>\n

I thought some of those readers of the Post who are interested in capturing large parts of the radio spectrum to decode later might want to look into this SDR receiver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for the info on this SDR, Franco. I was not familiar with it. A 16 bit wide band SDR with a 32 MHz working bandwidth is most impressive–I’m sure FM DXers will be following this closely. I’m glad they’re using a USB 3.0 port but am very curious if it can even handle the amount of data should a user initiate a really<\/em> wide spectrum recording. Perhaps recordings have capped bandwidths?<\/p>\n

As a side note, someone should tell the manufacturer that their model number “RX-666” is…well…a culturally sensitive number<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Post Readers:<\/strong><\/em> Please comment if you’re familiar with this SDR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Franco (K4VZ), who writes: Last night I came across a new SDR receiver from China called ‘RX-666’. On paper its specs are interesting: 16bit ADC, max sample rate 32MHz (in theory one could sample the whole LW+MW+SW bands at the same time), USB 3 interface, and tunable from 1kHz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836,3,43,158],"tags":[8718,8638,8719,157,34,4087],"class_list":["post-44596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-dragonfly-sdr","tag-franco-venturi-k4vz","tag-rx-666","tag-sdr","tag-shortwave","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bBi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44643,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-new-rx-888-16-bit-adc-direct-sampling-sdr-with-32-mhz-bandwidth\/","url_meta":{"origin":44596,"position":0},"title":"The New RX-888 16 bit ADC Direct Sampling SDR with 32 MHz bandwidth","author":"Thomas","date":"August 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, H. 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