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Maybolelistner
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PDW and SDR

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Good Afternoon ,

Wondering if anyone can help?

I managed to decode broken signals using a GRE pse 282 on PDw and someone suggested buying a sdr dongle which i did and for some reason i cant get it to work im picking up pagers and getting it into pdw but i dont think the antenna that came with the dongle is upto much has anyone got any suggestions?
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You could buy an adaptor and connect it to an external antenna, just plan it better than my mate did recently ;-) haha
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+1 for the above. Get a decent antenna adaptor. I also use a short high quality shielded USB extension so it can dangle down safely out the way.
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In PDW, what are you getting on the RX levels in the top right?

I find that the volume level is quite critical in PDW compared to other receiving programs.
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Are you using a virtual cable to pipe the audio into PDW? Have you changed the settings to the cable input in PDW?
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