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Technical Topics => SDR - Software Defined Radio => Topic started by: JACE26 on September 25, 2024, 2101 UTC
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I'm making a choice on either dragon OS or Skywave OS, for my little computer box. Which one should I choose?
Thank you
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Skywave Linux is good if you are primarily a listener, especially if you want an easy way to pick from a fresh list of KiwiSDR sites. It has a a self-contained map of sites, plis a fuzzy finder for text searching and picking servers. There is also an "radiostreamer" script, with a long list of broadcasters, which pulls geo data and tries to tune up a Kiwi server on that station. Skywave has some hardware drivers installed for several SDRs - rtsdr, etc., for some local plug and play.
When the bands are dead, there is a set of internet radio bookmarks for various stations you would otherwise find on the bands - WWCR, Radio Caroline, BBC, CBC, etc.
Dragon OS is better for running your own SDRs and doing signal analysis and working with the things you find on VHF - UHF - microwave. It has all sorts of goodies in SDRAngel which will show you what's going on in those signals. Plus, I believe it has support for transcieve capable hardware.
I am not sure what types of programming / coding tools are in Dragon OS. Skywave Linux has Neovim and lots of bling for the terminal and creating Bash / Javascript / Python scripts.
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You should be able to run either from a basic USB drive to test drive, so give them both a go and pick which one you like better.
Phil, thanks for the mention of Skywave having a SDR map.
https://rx.skywavelinux.com/
My Kiwi is listed of course. :) Will ya' be adding Web-888 listings in the future as well?
https://www.rx-888.com/web/rx.html
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I used 3.x and loved it. Going to have to try the latest version. I didn't know it was still being developed.