How to setup a SDR Radio

A collection of articles on how to setup the hardware and software for a Software Defined Radio.

 

Click on the article title to see the different setups provided by the site's users.

 

Delta 44 and Rocky Software.

Here are some settings for the Delta-44 sound card

MAudio Delta Control Panel

Monitor Mixer Tab:
    All blank except H/w Installed #1 44
    Master Volume 0.0 both channels
    Mixer Inputs All -144.0

Patch Bay / Router Tab:
    H/W Out 1/2
        WavOut 1/2
    H/W Out 3/4
        WavOut 3/4
    Rest Grayed Out

Hardware Settings:
    Clock and Sample Rates (Hz):
        Master Clock Check
            Internal Crystal
            Locked   
    Codec Sample Rates:
        96,000
        Uncheck Rate Locked
        Uncheck Reset Rate When Idle
    MultiTrack Driver Devices
        Check Single and In-Sync
        Uncheck Independent   
    DMA Buffer Size
        Latency 256 Samples
    Variable Signal Levels
        All set to -10 dBv
    ASIO Options
        Check Disable audio app use of Monitor Mixer and Patchbay/Router
    Input Channel Phase +180 degrees
        All Blank

    About
        Driver Version 5.10.00.5057
        Panel Version 1.03.27 - 10.19.198
 

Settings for use of a Delta-44 card with Rocky

 

Rocky Settings Audio Tab:

I/Q Input Device M-Audio Delta 44 1/2
96 kHz if your CPU and PC are up to it.
Left/Right =Q/I
0 Samples
Audio Output Device M-Audio Delta 44 1/2

Rocky Settings Transmit Tab:

Check Transmitter Enabled
I/Q Output Device M-Audio Delta 44 3/4
Adjust I/Q Amplitude for 1 Watt Output.  Do not exceed 1 Watt.  (This
comes out to 20 Vpp across a 50 Ohm dummy load if you have a scope.) (A
Norcal SMT Dummy Load is a handy thing to have for setting the power
output. It has a detector and calibration chart.)
Paddle/PTT Com 1

The rest is optional.

A handy thing to have is the Delta 44 Interface board which you can
order from Tony.  It gets rid of the bulky box, connectors, and cables,
providing instead four standard 3.5mm stereo audio jacks, and fits right
on back of the Delta 44 card audio interface connector.  And they are
labeled for what goes where.

Also get the Rocky Serial Interface board  to get the PTT out and the CW
paddles in.   This is also labeled.
 

 

This information is provided by Bill Dumke wa9pwr

MacIntosh with OS X and Linux setups

To: softrock40@yahoogroups.com
From: John Melton <john.melton@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [softrock40] Delta 44 Interface board

There is some info (along with source code) on setting up my Java GUI on
both a Mac and Linux system on https://java-sdr.dev.java.net (still
needs some refinement, but several are successfully running it). Also
may be worth checking my blog on http://javaguifordttsp.blogspot.com/

regards,

--- John g0orx/n6lyt

 

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Setting up DTTsp on Linux

Below is a link to the DTTsp wiki with intructions on setting up DTTSp on a Linux PC.

 

http://dttsp.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page