Reflections about a remote mediumwave listeners station

Thanks to all readers for following as useful hints & tips. This blog continous with new antennas and gear in a couple of weaks. Until then I wish all a pleasent summertime, or wintertime, it depends on where you stay. If you are at the HAM-Radio we see surely on Hörertreffen RÖI / Freundestreffen DokuFunk / A-DX Treffen. If you are touring cycling we might see as well.

73 & gd DX
Willi

After testing and testing the Trekstor under different problematic situations, I came to the conclusion that this tablet is not suitable to run durable as a remote station. The other day I wrote about problems with the HDD. They are solved. The irregularity was a somehow wrong USB-Y-Cable. After attaching another one the HDD runs smooth. The other issue is the small bandwidth. The tablet resp. the ELAD Software stutters if the bandwidth is not set to 153,6 kHz. That's too less for longtime operations and recordings. I have no idea if this issue can be solved. The tablet comes with 1GB RAM, has a 1.33 MHz processor and there is only 1,3 MB free space left on a disc that comes with 16 GB. Much of it is covered by the operating system. I don't run a lot of additional software. As I wrote in a futher article about 1228,8 kHz bandwidth I cannot confirm this anymore, the devil knows why I came to this result. Only 153,6 kHz bandwidth is left now! The issue might come from the power supply with the SAVAKE USB-cable. If no charging is running in the background the bandwidth could be set to 614.4 kHz. But recordings may be disturbed by lite stutters, as you can hear during listening. If you switch the SAVAKE cable to charging it is possible to record with 614,4 kHz bandwidh for a while until stuttering begins again. The same with 307,2 kHz. If the ELAD FDM-S2 is connected directly as a single device with a single cable to the only USB port 614,4 kHz is possible. And yes 1228,8 kHz sometimes too. It's irregulare.

Despite careful preparation arise ever new anomalies. What is the state of things and what happens next? Although hours of recordings can be made, but still the recording quality is poor. At some point stutters recording. I have not found a solution.

Another problem is with the power supply of the batteries. Not always accepted the HDD a power connection to the tablet. An irregularity I could not find.

The two points still take some time to complete. So, stay tuned to the blog.