Anyone else interested in a group buy for a headless TEF? @Rob2144 is keen. I’ll have a look at the next drop for prices.
I’ll take one. That way I can connect my horizontal ring dipole back up as well using the secondary aerial input. Solves the mono audio issue for the omni setup also.
Just got one of these for the East server. Will install soon and report back.
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Success. TVCL East is now in stereo.
For others considering this device, note that by default, Windows sets it up as a mono device and you’ll need to go into the Control Panel to change it to stereo.
TVCL Omni will switch to stereo once Fraz does the TEF group buy.
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There appears to be some sort of electronic device that one of my neighbours are using that is causing severe RF interference to my webserver on VHF/FM. Its more apparent below 100MHz and doesn’t appear to be QRM related and sounds like a harmonic of 50hz AC. After checking my setup, I have confirmed there are no recent solar developments nearby so can only assume a noisy device.
Strangely enough this issue has not affected AM (both MW and SW), there is no discernible difference to this band.
In the near future I plan on moving the webserver out of town away from the RF noise, so should solve the FM and significantly improve the AM performance.
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My webserver will be offline until further notice to to the pigtail inside the unit breaking, and pending me receiving all parts to build my own receivers.
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Sorry to hear that. I probably should put one of those on my shopping list too, given the stories I hear of this breaking by many TEF users.
Good luck with the shopping & construction.
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Has anyone else found the TEF radio attached to the fm-dx-webserver sometimes on the wrong band? AM or SW. If i manually change the band using the buttons on the radio, sometime later (minutes?) it ends up stuck on the wrong band again. Unpluggins the USB cable to the radio and plugging it in again seems to help reset things and stop the recurrent beaching.
My server and plugins are fairly up to date. I should probably reflash the radio and/or ask in the main discord server.
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