[amsat-bb] Funcube Dongle Pro+ w/GQRX (Ubuntu)

[Roy Dean]

Does anybody have experience with this combination?   I've been having
issues with my dedicated FoxTelem Raspberry Pi station, so I've taken it
down in favor of my APRS SatGate (which uses an RTL-SDR instead of the
FCDPP) - and decided to use the FCDPP for my Rx in my normal everyday shack
operations.   However I can't seem to connect to the dongle at all with
GQRX.   GQRX is doing something, but there is no waterfall and no audio.

I'm somewhat concerned that the issue with my FoxTelem station was with the
dongle itself, as I seem to remember successfully connecting to the dongle
with GQRX in the past.  I've tried the dongle on two separate pcs
running Ubuntu 18.04 with no luck.   I am able to start FoxTelem on a
raspberry pi and it seems to start decoding as expected (however the
failure mode is when it's left unattended for a couple of days, it ends up
stalling with a USB access error).

Any suggestions welcome.   Thanks.

--Roy
K3RLD