Hi all,
I've been using a FCD for a couple of weeks now and I decided to get a
go with a rtl-sdr compatible dongle. I bought one from osmocom and I'm
having trouble to get useful data out of it.
Based on the USB IDs, this is a "Generic RTL2832U (e.g. hama nano)".
Basically my problem is that the frequencies are wrong, first there's a
big offset (that can be fixed using the freq. corr. ppm), but i have as
well a scaling issue. When I'm looking at AIS signal i should see 2
blobs 25Khz apart of the center frequency (162MHz), but when i'm using
the RTL source the 2 blobs are separated by ca. 20KHz, instead of 50KHz.
As a quick test, i set up 2 osmosdr sources (one with dev set to fcd=0
and the other rtl=0, they have the same freq and rate settings) and I
plotted their FFT. The FCD is working as expected, but for the RTL, the
2 blobs are way closer the the central frequency.
So my question is does this device need some extra special settings? Is
there any documentation about all the settings i can use? Should I
calibrate it using some special technique, or does that simply mean that
this particular device is just non functional?
Thanks,
Chris