{"id":300,"date":"2021-07-31T13:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=300"},"modified":"2021-07-31T13:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:49:26","slug":"sdrplay-and-dodgy-usb-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"SDRplay and dodgy USB connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had thought that my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/rsp2\/\">SDRplay RSP2<\/a> was dead because none of my computers would recognise it. But I noticed that it was still drawing current from the USB port when attached and 50 mA seemed reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>I got it to work under CubicSDR somehow, but it was not reliable. Luckily at some stage it was working (I was listening to a Classic FM broadcast) and I accidentally tapped the RSP2 and the dulcet sounds of the orchestra turned into a loud buzzing noise. I realised that it was a hardware problem and I tried to recover and nothing would work until I tried an old USB cable. The RSP2 works fine with this cable but not with any other!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019ve lived a sheltered life but I don\u2019t remember any device having a dodgy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USB#Receptacle_(socket)_identification\">USB type-B<\/a> socket. Micro- and mini-USB fails are common, but type-B?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m happy now because I can monitor my VHF <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.princeton.edu\/pulsar\/k1jt\/Q65_Quick_Start.pdf\">Q65<\/a> transmissions using the SDRplay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had thought that my SDRplay RSP2 was dead because none of my computers would recognise it. But I noticed that it was still drawing current from the USB port when attached and 50 mA seemed reasonable. I got it to work under CubicSDR somehow, but it was not reliable. Luckily at some stage it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SDRplay and dodgy USB connection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,35,54],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-radio","tag-sdr","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}