Opinions and Opnions About This Dongle

[WØTKX]

Unitrunker is interesting, but really needs two receivers.

I'm plenty lost playing around with DMR, DSTAR, and an OpenSpot Shark One.

FFS!

[N8YX]

Unitrunker is interesting, but really needs two receivers.

I have 2X BCT-15X and 2X BCD-996XDs (1ea connected to two Unitrunker-configured PCs) for various analysis and digital monitoring duties. It's a neat setup but I really, REALLY wish there was a software-implemented squelch present in the app.

Derailing Charles's thread ever so slightly:

Various commercial receivers (e.g., Watkins-Johnson, Mackay Marine) had an ISB option. That is, Independent Sideband, For each assigned service channel, you'd have a voice component (USB) and a data (LSB). Thus, one could talk to another vessel or shore station on one sideband while receiving RTTY on the other. Many surplus/decommissioned units don't have the ISB boards installed but they do have a wideband IF pickoff point for the accompanying filter/demodulator board. Might be interesting to connect an SDR dongle in place of the ISB board and use it as a spectral display or run it in demodulator mode and take advantage of its signal processing capabilities.