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Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

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Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett:
> I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties.
> I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I
> can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record as
> MP3 for listening at a more convenient time.
> 
> My web search turned up little relevant detail.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> TIA
The chipset is important. The RTL2832U is working well and is well suported in 
linux.

As GUI most people are using GQRX in linux, but I heard, some windows gui 
shall work with wine.

However, my personal success was most time with GQRX. 

Maybe you might want to take a deeper look at 2823U-dongles, there are two 
different kinds available: One is for 24MHz up to 1,8GHz, the other one is for 
100kHz up to 1,8GHz.

The difference between them ist, the one with shortwave capable got TWO 
tunerchips inside, one for only shortwave, the other one for vhf and uhf.

Shortwave might be intereresting if you are a radio amateur like me.

Besides, I personally got the one for shortwave not running. It is confirmed 
to be possible, the problem here is not the technics, but the operater (say: 
me).

Hope this helps a little bit.

Best

Hans

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Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-23 14:00 +0200
  Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-06-23 14:20 +0200
    Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? John Dow <johnmdow@me.com> - 2025-06-23 14:40 +0200
    Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-23 16:00 +0200
      Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-06-23 16:30 +0200
        Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-24 14:20 +0200
          Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-06-24 15:10 +0200
    Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2025-06-25 12:20 +0200
  Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de> - 2025-06-23 16:10 +0200
    Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-24 14:30 +0200
      Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-25 16:20 +0200
        Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-06-25 16:40 +0200
      More effective searching (was: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB  device - available?) Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> - 2025-06-30 13:20 +0200
        Re: More effective searching "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2025-06-30 14:10 +0200
          Re: More effective searching Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-30 16:10 +0200
        Re: More effective searching Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-30 16:00 +0200
  Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> - 2025-06-24 03:00 +0200
    Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? 🦓 <czyborra@gmail.com> - 2025-06-24 06:30 +0200
    Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-24 13:00 +0200

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