TN.Frank

That was the same thing I got with Quisk under Zorin when I installed it. The dongle was working but it was like it wasn't being translated to the decryption program to turn into audio. Not had the least little bit of trouble with Gqrx under Kali. It's about as "plug n play" as I've seen. Might be worth a shot to try and installing Kali again even as a dual boot so you'd get some audio SDR stuff going on. Really though, as long as I have a wifi connection and have Flightradar24 I'm not going to sweat it over not being able to get my ADS-B working since I get that from the Interweb and I can get it from way more places and a much larger area then I ever could with my dongle. Gqrx under Kali gets me 24MHz to 1766MHz of RF that I can play with and that's really the main reason I bought the dongle in the first place. The ADS-B was just going to be a bonus to RF Audio stuff.

The blue light needs to be on to show that the dongle is getting power. In Gqrx under Audio I set my gain to 20db, squlech is -30db, AGC is fast, Gain is set to auto, FFT settings is 30fps and 4096, DC Cancel is checked as is IQ balance. I also close my FFT and Input Controls since once they're set I don't touch them again. I tune to a wide fm station that I know is a strong station in my area and have my bandwidth set to wide. On narrow FM I get NOAA Weather at 162.393.000MHz, AM is aircraft chatter at around 122-125MHz and CB's.are in the 27MHz range. I did try to install Quisk on a Zorin install that I was playing with and didn't get squat with my dongle so I just went back to Kali since Gqrx is already set up and works great. I'll try to post some pics of my set up so you can see my settings.

Try to install Kali again. It has Gqrx which is really simple to use and works very well. OR you could try to install Gqrx under Win7 to see if that'll work Hopefully someone will chime in with some ideas. Could be the filter you have set or other settings that's blocking FM radio from coming in. Of course you'll not get AM radio since it's a lower bandwidth then the dongle can decode without an extra card but you should get from 24MHz up to 1700MH or more with that dongle.

Remember, the Orange FAA aircraft on flightradar24 are delayed by 5 minutes so you'll probably not see them on your ADS-B but any of the Yellow aircraft that are in range should come in real time between flightradar24 and your ADS-B set up. As for FM reception I went "old school" and just split a piece of speaker wire out 3' per side and hung it up on the wall then I ran it to my supplied antenna and connected it to that using a small ring terminal and cleaned off the bottom of the little antenna with some sand paper so it'd make contact with the ring terminal when I screwed it down to hold it in place. I picked up 10db doing that.

IIRC way back from Class at DeVry a station that broadcasts as a certain freq. will also have ghost freqs. at intervals of it's original broadcast freq. So 102.5 FM will also come in at half of that freq roughly and twice that freq. Like I said, this was back in '83 and I'm a bit fuzz on this but I do remember something about antennas and picking up signals at different sizes of antenna so 1/4 meter, 1/2 meter, 1 meter, ect can pick up the same freq. IIRC.

Not messed with SDR# but I have used Gqrx in my Kali Linux install and it's very simple to use. The dongle that the HakShop sells will get me from 24MHz to 1766MHz and I can do AM, Narrow FM(where NOAA Weather is broadcast at 162.398.000 for me) Wide FM Mono, Wide FM Stereo, USB(Upper Side Band) LSB(Lower Side Band) and CW-U and CW-L. Music and such is in the Wide FM band, roughly 88MHz to 109MHz., CB radio is around the 27MHz band, air traffic, from what I've noticed, is around 122MHz up to around 125MHz. and there's a lot of other stuff going on that I have no clue as to what it is but you can "see" it in the waterfall and wave form. Hope this helps.

It seems like if one was to learn how to use GNU Radio it'd be kind of the "Holy Grail" for SDR since you could config. anything you wanted. That being said it looks a lot harder to do then say just open Gqrx or something.

Now that's a cool site. Almost like having ADS-B going without the need for the software or dongle. Thanks. Got this one bookmarked. Also, since it's web based you can watch aircraft from anywhere in the World. I was watching planes land at Honolulu Airport. Of course you only get 30 minutes before you have to reload the web page but still, this will help scratch my ADS-B itch until I can figure out how to get it working under Kali with my dongle.

I was going to ask this same question. After seeing Darren load up that pre-configured "radio" set up into GNU Radio in the last ep. I was wondering if there was a place that had more pre-configured stuff that we could download and open up in GNU Radio that'd take all the "work" out of doing it ourselves.

LOL, I saw that. He had it booted from a Live USB stick. Almost like he's reading the minds of the folks in the SDR forum(or at least their posts,LOL) but yep, that's what he was using.

As far as I know none of the Repos have upgraded the kernel so I should be fine. Everything seems to be running fine. Don't think I'll have any problems, so far so good.

By doing this and excluding a couple "problem" Repos that I didn't have the public key for or other issues I've been able to upgrade my Iceweasel browser from 22 to 24.3 and probably upgraded a lot of other stuff that Kali just doesn't bother with like VLC, ect. No issues so far. Here's my sources.list. # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20140108-18:08]/ kali contrib main non-free #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20140108-18:08]/ kali contrib main non-free deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib ## Security updates deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free #Third Parties Repos #Debian Mozilla team deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/linrunner/tlp/ubuntu lucid main This last one is for my TLP Power Management install, wasn't a part of the sources.list I got from the Debian Sources List creator.

Also, I know this isn't SDR stuff per say but if you're going to listen in to satellites with your SDR dongle it would be a good idea to know when they're in your area so that's why I posted this here.

I added some Debian Stable Repos to my Kali Linux install. Everything seems to be working fine, just wonder if anyone else has done this and if you've run into any conflicts or anything?

I'm sure the signal that the DirecTV dish would pull in would be on the narrow side, still, it would be worth a shot if you've got an old dish just sitting around collecting dust.

Did you notice the International Space Station(ISS) down around South Africa? Pretty cool IMHO. Also gives uplink and downlink freq. I guess so you can use your SDR to hack into the signal.

I did find a pretty cool satellite tracking program on the Ubuntu/SDR Distro that barry99705 posted in one of the threads here. You can look it up in Synaptic under "gpredict" and download it. Then you can set your Ground Station to your location and see what's going on over head. Anyway, just thought I'd share.

So SDR is something kind of new then. That explains why we don't have a lot of Linux apps yet.

I agree, it'd just be nice if I had someone sitting next to me to help walk me through it rather then having to go onto the interweb where folks can't really see what's going on with my box when I try to do stuff like this. I think GNU Radio is really the "key" to SDR on Linux. If a person can figure out how to set it up you can set up pretty much anything from all the tools that I see that it has in it. SDR and ADS-B are suppose to be Hobbies, they're suppose to be fun, not like homework for a computer science class, LOL. I just wish someone would write an app like Gqrx only for ADS-B so you could simply install it from Synaptic or "sudo apt-get install "X"" and then click the button and a GUI would come up ready to go just like it does with Gqrx. Guess I should not hold my breath though. LOL

I installed the Ubuntu SDR disto on my nc4400. Looks interesting but I don't see Gqrx. There are a few other tools that look kind of cool though. There's a satilite tracker that's pretty neat. Oh well, I'll give it a test drive for a couple days. Thanks.

I wonder if an old DirectTV dish would work for satellite antenna, I mean that's what it was used for in the first place, right?

Got that one bookmarked, thanks. Wonder if it'd could be installed and used as an everyday Distro. I mean I have my little list of software that I use on a daily basis that I install on all Distros, wonder if I could install this and add some stuff and get a fairly decent "Daily Diver" that would take up less space then Kali(it's a real hog for hard drive space) and that way I'd still have my SDR support on an Ubuntu Distro. P.S. I did notice that it only comes in 64bit so it'll have to go on my NC4400, Core 2 Duo laptop since my NC6400 Core Duo laptops are only 32bit.

Mainly because I always seem to run into dependencies errors and problems with other stuff. I wish someone would write a program for Debian that'd be like Gqrx where you'd just install a .deb package then it'd be one click to get everything up and running, LOL. Guess that'd be to easy though.

When do I run "rtl_adsb | netcat -lp 7777", before or after I start up rtl_adsb in Kali and I'd have to start it up with the first line in the Streaming for netcat and not the one for socat, right? Also, I'm already running a 32bit Kali install so do I still need the 32 bit stuff for WINE? Shouldn't I already have that installed? I don't run as root, I run from an Admin Account that I set up in Kali so do I need to start things in Terminal as "sudo" or what? The answers I get always lead to more questions rather then solutions. Isn't there anything for ADS-B like the Gqrx program I use to play around with SDR? Something that's one click on an icon and Bob's your Uncle or do you always have to go through Terminal and do all these work arounds to get to where you want to go?

Ok, so I need to install ADSB Scope for Windows onto my Linux box and run it under WINE. Got it. How to I use on of the "pointers" in rtl_adsb to get it to ADSB Scope and can I use either one or is there a preferred one to use? Also, I've never used WINE before, once I download ADSB Scope for Windows how to I open it using WINE? Please be patient with me, I'm fairly new at all of this and really don't know a lot about it. Thanks.