I just got the dongle, it works fine on my netbook with Windows 7, but not on my main computer with Windows 8.1. SDRSharp throws 'RTL-SDR / USB is. We'll be using the awesome SDR# software for windows, which is really easy to use and very powerful as well! Visit to download - we're using Rev 1243.

Until recently the only quick and easy option for using RTLSDR was with WINSDR and HDSDR with the EXTIO plugin from spench.net. This has all changed now and all you need is the very nice, fast and open source. It natively supports RTLSDR hardware (along with FUNCUBE and the audio card) and is much kinder on the CPU than the others.

It also has code to deal with the so called DC spike so that you don't see it. You may converse directly with the author “prog” and others on IRC at Freenode on channel #sdrsharp. Nightwish Once Limited Edition Amazon. Installing SDR#. In the box to the right of the green arrow make sure “WinUSB” is chosen - not libusb or libusbk.

The big button underneath will say “Replace Driver” or “Reinstall Driver”. Bekstvo Iz Zatvora more. Before you proceed make sure the USBID matches the VID/PID in the. Note that if you insert the dongle into a different USB port you may have to use Zadig again. It seems that you can change which driver is loaded depending on the USB port used. So you could use one USB port for RTLSDR and another port for using the dongle to watch DVB-T with the supplied Windows application.

Automated Installer. Download and unzip it. Double click on the install.bat file in the newly created sdr-install directory to have the script download everything you need including Zadig. You might find on occasion when re-running install.bat to update SDR# that it doesn't seem to get the latest version. In this case you will need to clear the cache in IE as shown.

Once the script has completed it will have downloaded the latest SDR#, the latest RTL driver from Osmocom (and enabled use of RTL-USB) and Zadig and put them in a new sdrsharp directory. If you haven't already run Zadig to set up your RTLSDR dongle for use with SDR# for the first time follow the Zadig instructions above (skipping the step to download Zadig) to configure the correct USB driver. Once the the WinUSB driver is installed you are ready to run SDR# with the RTL-SDR/USB input device. The Osmocom RTLSDR utilities include the program rtl_tcp. This allows you to run the dongle on one PC (be it Windows or Linux) or an embedded ARM/MIPS board and pump the ADC data over a TCP connection to another computer running a compatible client such as SDR#. A guide to starting rtl_tcp is. In SDR# use the frontend called RTLSDR / TCP and configure the host IP address that the rtl_tcp server is running on.