RX888 MK2 16BIT Software Defined Radio
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Here we take a look at the RX888 Mk2 SDR Receiver which has a whopping 64 MHz real time bandwidth on HF!
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The FM signal on 29.850MHz Is an alias from 34MHz, the traffic is the Turkish forestry Fire service. The signal showing the selective fading on the left is the Ghadir OTHR from Iran and the two diagnonal sweeps are the ionosonde from near RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
Very good presentation! informative & nicely paced. Was initially just browsing for SDR info, but now likely to buy this one.
13 minutes in @tech Minds says that SDR Console only lets you go up to 32MHz bandwidth, it does go all the way up to the maximum of 64MHz if you go to "Options" under the "Radio" section of the left hand side controls (While the SDR is running). In there, there is an option to change the "Sampling frequency" to 128 MSPS. Turn the radio off, then on again using the button on the top left and then using the bandwidth dropdown chose 64MHz. My radio is running quite nicely on my laptop at the full 64MHz.
Absolutely! 👌
What a monster SDR. Fantastic review!
Great video!! Truly inspired by this receiver and awaiting your second review on the higher bands to decide whether it would be a good addition to my shack. Thanks again for all you do! 73
It seems like very nice advanced SDR. I think I need to work up to the higher end units, since I am just starting out and have very limited income. A dual antenna unit sounds great for serious users. I hope to get a basic unit up for Xmas. Thanks for giving me something to aspire to.
I wish you all the best with it! You may learn right away the appliances that have 'switching power supplies' that make A.M. hash/noise. You'll probably experiment with which way to lay an antenna wire for directional receiving, too. You may want to keep a small journal of what you hear day to day, so you can catch the same radio shows the same time daily/weekly. Again, all the best & congratulations. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Very sensitive across the entire HF band! Thanks for this positive review of the new RX888!
I have had mine for several months and it works great. Just know it needs a good GPU to get the full spectrum.
29.850 was an interesting frequency. Super video as usual Mat.
It's an alias from 34MHz, the traffic is the Turkish forestry Fire service.
Nice video! Please make more videos on this SDR!
Thanks, will do!
Geez Mat, what kind of review is this? I want to hear the full spread! In 1KHz intervals! And I want it now!!! I'm kidding. Just thought I'd beat them to it, lol. Anyway, cool video. Very neat little SDR. Not a half bad price, either. If I didn't have my HackRF, I might be looking into one of those. The heatsinks are nice, though I don't know how much they will do as they aren't directly in contact with anything other than the two rather thick TIM pads. Most of the heat they see is what radiates to the case and works its way around to them. That said, it's not like they're hurting anything being there, and it will help evacuate a bit more heat than what it normally would with just a slab sided case. But it is really neat bit of kit with a pretty healthy chunk of bandwidth. I may look into one anyway, lol. Thanks for the video, great stuff as always.
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I'll stick to my bog standard sdrplay...ps enjoying your vids....
bought mine about a year ago. not long after justin demonstrated it. my 2 year old hp x360 laptop with an i7 10th gen and intel gpu wouldnt run this at anything more then 1 mhz. ended up buying a new asus rog with a 12gen i7 and a 3650 gpu
What time was that AM qso on 3.660 ?
great video!
oooow! so funky!
Would have been nice to see MW LW and VLF performance
Yup, so much to cover and video was rather long. I’ll do another video at some point covering 1.5ghz and VLF but will be a few weeks away.
@@TechMindsOfficial Great thanks
R828D not the D2? The 820T is now the 860 according to some, what's the real differences here?
let me ask, what kind of antenna are you using for this Video. Discone, Directional, dipole, yagui or what are?
Im looming at a desktop PC for controlling SDRs ie SDRPlay Lime SDR and the odd RTL SDR what to recommend stats for a desktop PC ?
Impressive specs, but many users report that it stops working after a few weeks/months.
Are they all made on a Monday?
Very Good and thanks for this information, N5QDM. 73's
Is yours still working Matt ? Tempted to buy another even though the first one stopped working after 2 weeks
Yep, mines still working great, just checked it. Although I don’t use it that often as my main SDR is a RSPdx.
@@TechMindsOfficial ah just bought a dx as it’s with a discount atm
You’ll love it!
I had one but it packed up after a few weeks, had a lot of hassle trying to get a refund
What exactly?
@@SimoneFabris huh ?
@@digitalmediafan what was wrong with the Rx?
@@SimoneFabris it was fine but just stopped working
Where do the extio files go for SDR++ and SDR#?
I had a look at the link for the drivers for this SDR, but I didn't see a Windows 11 driver listed. Can anyone confirm that the Windows 10 driver would work on a Windows 11 machine?
inpoo, sockey and other new words. please, continue.
Hi Mat. Can you elaborate a little more about your pc config en hardware? Would an external egpu help?do you require a Thunderbolt3 connection?
Best to watch one of my latest videos where I elaborate more on receiving the whole 64MHz. I also posted in the comments on that new video my current PC specs. I have a different computer now to what was used in this video. Thanks for watching :-)
Hi Matt. Thanks. I ordered this one. Do you have an alternative site for the drivers. Seems to be archived. Or can you send the zip file? Thanks in advance.
Does the sdrAngel software support this device?
Is there an updated link for the Driver? Following the link in the description says the content has been archived.
Have you found the driver elsewhere? I'm still looking.
Well is about 230€ on Aliexpress... Is it better than RSPdx? I don't think so, but it's advantage is the 64 MHz bandwidth for HF (for whoever needs it)
About a month after your comment, Redditor HorrorFrank wrote: "RX888 MkII is an amazing SDR and even seems to rival the RspDX in terms of audio quality and gain control if not being superior!" Testing with FT8, he was able to log a few more countries in grid tracker in 4 hours with the RX-888 MKII than in 5 hours with the RSPdx starting at the same time of day.
Thanks there aren't many good videos in the rx888 mkii.
But you didn't show the see all ham bands at once, see all the FT8 in all of the hf band and the see all shortware broadcast bands at once.
By see I mean it opens a separate window broken up with a boxes for each separate spectrum display for each band. Also you can open up another window and define up to 24 seperate receivers from across the whole hf spectrum. You can individually mute and unmute them. Not sure how useful that is with one human listening.
Also with the large spectrum display you can see frequency sweeping signals like ionosonde. This appears in two places in this video
What software is this and can you link to your video?
@@pen25 it's in SDR console 64bit. You just need to know where to click. I might put a video up on my UA-cam of it.
Done. I'm not a content maker. But you can see it working. I have local RFI from Ethernet of Mains Power. And the antenna are resonant on 40m and 20m (I switch back and forth)
Whats the current draw? Thanks.
Great product. Interested in buying it but it's close to $300 Canadian with exchange and shipping. Ridiculous actually. Might look into the RSPdx instead. Every ham product is double the price if your a Canadian....
So I just got mine, but the device shows up as "Unknown device", not as Westbridge. Installing the driver as shown in the video does nothing, even after rebooting.
Aaaand I had to enable "show hidden devices" in device manager, find the cypress device, and update the driver to the one from the website. Then it started working.
Unfortunately I get very choppy audio, and using hdsdr does not work at all as the extio plugin just does not see the device. Tried different USB ports, no joy.
Can't seem to find whether or not it's half or full duplex. It must be half. I think it would have 3 antenna ports at least if it was full.
It doesn’t transmit so duplex doesn’t really come into it.
@@TechMindsOfficial Ahh.
how it could be 64 mhz hf band if hf is covers only 3-30mhz band???
YES...correct ....64MHz is VHF but where they need to up convert hence new antenna port. The V port also covers UHF and SHF so it is also "badly" labelled ....should maybe be L and H LOW (for up to 64 Meg) and H for HIGH > 64 Meg. I have an AirSpy discovery HF cost me more but I'm a bit "gun shy" with cheaper dongles hence this video!
ua-cam.com/video/_NwFCT98CsI/v-deo.html
Here is my AirSpy video
ua-cam.com/video/Mx1dD_GV1nU/v-deo.html
@@TheArtofEngineering so, is airspy performing better on vhf than rx-888?
Oh for god's sakes !
Would it have been better if the unit connected to your computer via the router so you can access the RX888 from anywhere in the house over WIFI. but the RX888 would need a LAN interface.
what is a "chippaley"?
SDR++ official releases do not support the RX888. It won't be supported until the manufacturers release a real library/driver for it. It's an issue if you run Linux.
Agree totally with this. the linux lib is very bad, so no support for Mac/Linux users 😞
The Cypres driver link goes to a page : content archived ..
Have you found the driver elsewhere? I'm still looking.
Will the cypress driver work on Windows with SDR++?
Hi Paul, I'm pretty sure I was using Windows in the video.
I would much rather have to deal with a normal USB 3.1 port and even an auxiliary power plug if I had to then to rely on a somewhat elusive USB port design that for the most part a lot of stuff is refusing to use. Not to mention if crap ever hit the fan trying to find another USB connector to connect to that if the one that you have happens to break you're pretty much screwed. I just don't understand people when they design stuff like this not thinking about using common off-the-shelf cables instead of something that's practically proprietary as far as ease of locating in a SHTF scenario.
nothing elusive about this connector. cables are cheap enough and the good thing about it is its very stout. buy a 3 pack on amazon. 2 for spares if you are that worried about it
Agreed. USB-C does everything and is the future of cabling standards. Why is radio equipment always so slow to use it? I will never know.
Why so many links?
I am expecting the test with SDR # software
Over $200 huh… but sounds good on the air.
Well done. These are made in China as I see. Are they all made in China?
Is there software for Mac and or iPad?
For Mac you can use SDR++
@@TechMindsOfficial Thanks
@@TechMindsOfficial no, the official release os SDR++ doesn't support this device because of bas lib / driver for OS other than windows.
@@TechMindsOfficial I don't believe there is a driver to get it to work on Mac.
Starting at 11:39 there is a signal that sweeps from left to right (low to high) across the entire displayed screen.
What is it?
That's not that unusual. I don't really know what they are though.
Its a ionosonde, used to Measure muf of the ionosphere.
ua-cam.com/video/v2fvHn1Hkjg/v-deo.html
@@vk3hau There used to be one at the Radio & Space Research Station where I worked in the 60s.
I see this regularly on all the HF bands. I’m thinking it’s someone doing a SWR sweep.
Thank for video! Can show how it to connect to SDR++ and SDRSharp?
No more stock at above link @Aliexpress.
Either all the amateurs have suddenly started transmitting on x.5 - x.6 kHz or your RX888 mk2 isn't calibrated very well.
If rather buy a Hack rf and transmit too for half the price
So you have a white cat...
I’m gonna start recording in 360p lolol…
@@TechMindsOfficial Cats are always welcome in radio shacks, specially when they sit on the PTT button on the desk, making frequency users very happy..
@@DavidLopez-bz4rj Timestamp for white cat?
@5:50 “‘restarted my computer” smh it’s 2022...
No! It’s 1976! Weirdo!
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The truth is that the RX888 MK2 is not compatible with SDR++ nor SDR#, I didn't find anything about that. It works great with HDSDR and Console, but I prefer HDSDR because it is lighter to process. I see the RX888 as an excellent SDR, but it's clear to me that its manufacturer is lazy. It is a total disregard for the consumer that the manufacturer does not provide libraries for LINUX and MAC or even makes it compatible with the most used software such as SDR# and SDR++, so the product loses competitiveness and lags behind cheaper and simpler models. I love SDR receivers, I have a few models, but by far the best is the 14bit RSP1A, the SDplay software is unbeatable because the manufacturer pays a lot of attention to the product, including making it compatible with other software to the customer's taste, this does not happen with the RX888 which in my opinion is much superior in terms of sensitivity to the RSP1A, but loses out as it has almost no compatibility with any popular software. I hope the manufacturer wakes up in time to save him. :(
It definitely is compatible with SDR Sharp, at least up until V1732 as I've been using that combo since the MK2 first appeared on the market. ua-cam.com/video/Ux4L5VI-U70/v-deo.html RX888MK2 on the left, RSP1A on the right.
Don't waste your money. This device is an unstable and unsupported turd. It overheats, locks up, the bias-T doesn't work for more than 2 minutes before overloading and turning off. All of these issues require a reset of the device. Though the RTL-SDR V4 is not as sensitive as the RX888, there are no such issues with it.
No thanks! I will *NO LONGER BUY ANYTHING FROM Aliexpress. RIP OFF!!!!!*
Maybe in your experience, I've made dozens of purchases from Aliexpress including a 888mk2 and all have been fine.
@@AceBlaggardI totally Agree just do your homework first.
I use reputable dealers on Alie. Opensource SDR etc.. They have telegram groups with ace support. Always read the reviews. If it sounds to good to be true it usually is, is my advice to anyone.
@@AceBlaggard ditto. Never a single problem. Just waiting for another TEF6686 !
Not very impressive.
Expected more