Softrock still works!
Posted on 07.08.10 6:52 AM under Amateur Radio, SoftRock
I pulled the old softrock rxtx v6.3 out of storage last night and managed to get it working with a string antenna. This thing still amazes me on how sensitive it can be considering I was just using a few feet of random wire inside at ground level. I used Sebastian Mrozek’s software DSP Radio on my mac which is pretty slick but underdeveloped. It has a lot of potential but I haven’t seen an update for a while and I start to doubt it will be. I also found that the audio quality was much better when using my EMU 0202 USB sound card.
I didn’t try transmitting since I don’t have a decent antenna system and don’t want to hurt the PA circuit. I might have to try and construct some sort of simple wire dipole inside my lair. Alas I am without a windows machine so no Rocky for me (Rocky is a pretty ice simple piece of software to run a softrock with, but it doesn’t work under wine) so I can’t use PSK and my morse code is not up to scratch for a QSO so I dunno who I would talk to anyway. Plus, I am waiting on a keyer from MJF which they seem to be taking forever to supply.
OK – enough rambling…
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