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Created April 22, 2022 02:07
Sunrise Festival Procedure for use of UHFSDR receiver and HDSDR program for I/Q signal recording and scheduling, by Ward WC0Y
This procedure is written to support data collection for the 2022 Sunrise Festival. It is written for use of a soundcard SDR receiver with an audio interface and for use of the HDSDR program for signal recording and scheduling.
Equipment/Software List:
1. Receive antenna: 40m length end-fed half-wave (EFHW) dipole with a 49:1 BALIN
2. Band pass filter: WB6DHW design set for 30m pass-band http://wb6dhw.com/BPF.html
3. SDR: WB6DHW UHFsdr http://wb6dhw.com/For_Sale.html#UHFSDR
4. 10dB BNC attenuator
5. PC interface: USB Soundblaster Creative Labs THX with audio isolators for I & Q lines
6. SDR software: HDSDR v2.80 http://hdsdr.de/
7. PC OS: Windows 11