[Hackrf-dev] getting started

[Larry DiGioia]

OK. Let me start by saying that GNURadio is over my head. I could spend 
the hours I need to learn it, but I am a ham, this is only a hobby. It 
just isn't my idea of fun. I only have so many hours to spare, which I 
would prefer to spend outside improving my antennas. Michael did his 
best to convince me at Dayton, but I just can't see it. I just want a 
good DC to Daylight receiver.

I have my hackrf. I have an assortment of very modern computers.

I previously played with the Funcube dongle, with great success, using 
GQRX (reluctantly) on Ubuntu. Sold it on EBay as soon as my HackRF was 
shipped. (I prefer Debian.) Anyway, I tried firing up Pentoo. I actually 
tried to install it permanently, big mistake. The I realized that 
running it live is probably better. But I could not get GQRX to work there.

I even tried the GNURadio compile script on a laptop, worked fine. Still 
couldn't get past the introductory docs, so I installed GQRX... which 
killed even the utility that tells me the HackRF is there.

I installed Andy's Ham Linux (Ubuntu again.) Voila! GQRX and GNURadio, 
on the same box, and both (theoretically) work. I fired up GQRX, and it 
only has a choice of "other" for hardware, but it seems to work - I have 
audio, which is definitely affected by my gain settings, but not a 
signal in sight. Tried HF, FM, nothing.

I am about at the end of my rope. I would really hate to have to run 
Windows, but it may come to that. What else am I missing?

Larry N8KU

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