{"id":2039,"date":"2016-03-12T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2016-03-12T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T16:53:10","slug":"the-kiss-of-death-for-sdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"The Kiss of Death for SDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after trying a cheap <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/\">RTL2832 dongle<\/a> for a month or two, I&#8217;ve decided that throwing more money at software defined radio at the present moment would be a waste of same.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is Microsoft Windows. I still hate using it as much as ever, and if you don&#8217;t run Windows, your options for SDR software are extremely limited at the present time.<\/p>\n<p>Given that this is all a hobby for me, &#8220;I hate using it&#8221; is the kiss of death. So I&#8217;ve basically given up on SDR for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>It was of very little loss. The software was free and my hardware investment cost under $10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after trying a cheap RTL2832 dongle for a month or two, I&#8217;ve decided that throwing more money at software defined radio at the present moment would be a waste of same. The reason is Microsoft Windows. I still hate using it as much as ever, and if you don&#8217;t run Windows, your options for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}