{"id":37,"date":"2016-12-24T17:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/?p=37"},"modified":"2016-12-26T00:29:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T00:29:51","slug":"up-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/2016\/12\/24\/up-and-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Up and running!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; with PowerSDR v3.3.9. I finally get to see and play with my own real SDR. I connected my antenna to the ANT1 input on the rear panel. It&#8217;s a good thing I have some BNC-to-UHF adapters in my parts bin. First impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panadapter and waterfall are beautiful and useful. I have a recent model analog transceiver that, like many, has built-in DSP functions. It has a panadapter and waterfall that can appear in its display, but they now seem like toys compared to this SDR. (Get the waterfall to appear, below the panadapter, by selecting &#8220;panafall&#8221; in the drop-down listbox that&#8217;s centered below the panadapter area.)<\/li>\n<li>Complexity rules. There are\u00a0lots of buttons and sliders, each with a useful function. It will take time to get fluent with this UI.<\/li>\n<li>Complexity rules II. There are a gazillion setup options! There are tabs and subtabs, each with many options. Many are puzzling and not explained anywhere that I can find despite my friendly relationship with Google search. For now, I&#8217;m leaving these at their defaults.<\/li>\n<li>How to hear audio? Audio appears at the 200D&#8217;s front-panel headphone jack. I could run from there to a set of amplified computer speakers. There are some available that have a headphone jack on the front of one of the speakers, so I could still use headphones when needed.<\/li>\n<li>Or I could use a virtual audio cable (VAC) to route the audio to my PC. I already have a set of computer speakers hooked up there. PowerSDR has VAC functionality built-in. No need for separate software or drivers. I tried VAC,\u00a0and it works. My computer speakers sound great to me, so for now this is what I&#8217;ll use.<\/li>\n<li>I noticed a bit of delay (called <em>latency<\/em>\u00a0nowadays) in the VAC audio coming from my PC speakers. I could observe, by eye and ear, an unnatural delay between the S meter rising and hearing the signal. I fixed this, to my ear, by changing buffer latency to 0 on the VAC subtab under the Audio tab in Setup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; with PowerSDR v3.3.9. I finally get to see and play with my own real SDR. I connected my antenna to the ANT1 input on the rear panel. It&#8217;s a good thing I have some BNC-to-UHF adapters in my parts <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/2016\/12\/24\/up-and-running\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anan-200d","category-receiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w2pa.net\/SDR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}