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It’s alive… and noisy. I’m already picking up WSPR reports and am reporting into pskreporter. with some pretty good spots.

I do not have everything permanently mounted yet, but the magloop is in the KiwiSDR and it’s alive. I opted for a metal case for the SDR and it came with a VERY noisy fan which is going to necessitate it being removed from my room where it currently resides. I’m not talking RF noise, the fan is loud.

There’s some RF noise problems but it’s not bad at all.

The KiwiSDR v1 is a Beaglebone Black based linux box and it has interesting security to say the least as it’s really meant to be a plug and play radio more than anything else. Once I’m more comfortable with how that works I will be probably making use of the proxy service so everyone can use it.

Did I mention this thing is noisy?

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