The IC-R8500 covers a wide frequency range from 0.1 to 2000MHz (with 10Hz resolution) while maintaining a high receive sensitivity. Usually I hear them on the SDR first.IC-R8500 Communications Receiver (Discontinued) Atmospheric noise is way low and I’m hearing/working stations in Europe or Hawaii Austraila at the same time. What bands do you hang out? I have noticed that 40M is working very well. Trying to catch up with the rest of the world. All my hdsdr versions have extio ip addresses greyed out, don’t know why. I read where you can use HDSDR as a client so you can access your radios thru the web but I haven’t found the version of hdsdr that will do that. There is some inconsistency in that function based on how much you zoom into the spectrum.

somehow I can’t get the same mouse click and drag wheel responses that I am looking for. I had been using it for a long time with that cheap dongle and homebrew upconverter so I had experience with it. There is also some sdr stuff on redit although its usually a discussion with newbies, lots of interest in satellite and spacelab video decoding, and questions about basic antennas. I already am a member of the groups.io but I didn’t notice the hdsdr entries. I suppose using the IF panadapter would be useful if you are near strong stations that might overload the sdr assuming the bandpass filtering in the xcvr is better. Just fyi, I’ve found the rsp1 rx to be more than adqueate so rather than tap into the IF I’m just going to put in an antenna relay so that the default rx is the sdr but when I xmit the relay switches to the ham xcvr. Its more predicatable except for the “feature” that I just discovered after you mentioned it. I haven’t figured it out so I’m just using HDSDR instead. It also affects how the numbers change on the digits.

Have you tried it with the SDRPLAY software? I still havent’ figured out the details but I get odd behaviors by clicking in different parts of the window depending on how zoomed in I am. Maybe a config/default setting somewhere? It does not happen on the left hand part of the window. HOWEVER, if I click on the extreme right of the spectrum window then that frequency hops to the center. Anyway, I can click anywhere in the spectrum window and it does not center as you describe. I am using HDSDR with an rsp1 directly, not hooked to the ham rig as a panadapter. Where is the “HDSDR GURU”? I’d like to ask him some questions.

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