Airspy

Award

We assessed the Airspy HF+ in last years’ WRTH and were very impressed by it. The reason for a further review this year was occasioned by the introduction of the HF+ ‘Discovery’ which on paper represents a further advance on what was a very good low-cost-SDR.


Read the rest of this review here.

Live in Action

Screenshot

Here we have a dynamic range of almost 85dB - just need a stronger signal!

History

January 13th, 2016
  • Replaced the three menu entries LNA, VGA, Mixer with a single, unified Gain menu entry.
  • Data packing enabled by default.
  • Minimum supported firmware revision is rc6.
Note: Spyverter is powered via the Bias Tee option (power through the SMA antenna connector).

Firmware & Library
As of July 11th, 2015 the firmware and library version information is shown in the logfile, for example:

08:44:34> Airspy
08:44:34> Airspy library version 1.0 revision 6
08:44:34> Opening serial number 16C463C8-210C55C7
08:44:34> Opened serial number 16C463C8-210C55C7
08:44:34> Firmware version AirSpy NOS v1.0.0-rc5-0-g648c14f 2015-05-20


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