Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RTL SDR & GNU Radio new linux machine.

[Cinaed Simson]

On 10/24/2016 10:50 AM, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Paul Zander <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>  
> 
>     2.  I first tried the GNURadio v3.7.10.1 as a live .iso.  PLL not locked
> 
> 
> ​We compile/install the latest master branch RTLSDR ​driver
> from git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr <http://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr>,
> which is commit e3c03f73 from June/2015.  If there is a better option,
> please let me know.

The receiver has to much noise.

Try another frequency - like wide band FM (broadcast FM) - your antenna
cable should be able to pick up WFM.

And try using a USB cable and move the dongle away from the computer and
put a huge of metal under the antenna - maybe the antenna just has a bad
grounding plane.

I'm assuming the antenna is a quarter wave antenna which typically comes
with the usb rtl dongle.

Or maybe the antenna is bad - the dongle appears to be working.

> 
> -Johnathan
>