[amsat-bb] FoxTelem with RTL-SDR

[Roy Dean]

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> What am I missing? Thanks, Greg KO6TH


Greg - I've had zero luck using the rtl-sdr dongle directly with FoxTelem.
 I can get it to connect, at least - but it decodes almost nothing (it has
to be a super powerful signal to get anything).  However, if I use the same
dongle, with GQRX audio piped into FoxTelem via pulse audio, then it works
wonderfully.   Not sure why the difference is.

I will say that running the GQRX and FoxTelem guis at the same time is a
major processor drain.   Usually FoxTelem will give up the ghost a few
seconds in.   If I switch off of the input tab into one of the spacecraft
tabs, the processor usage drops dramatically and then I continue on.   But
this is on a 10 year old laptop so who knows.

--Roy
K3RLD