Funcubedongle.com Website Review

A quick update for you, I am delighted to announce that the FUNcube Dongle Pro+ works perfectly on Windows 10, in both 32 and 64 bit There’s no need for any driver updates, by design the FUNcube Dongles have been designed to use drivers already shipped with the operating system, and require no special or separate installation from your SDR software. Apologies, the website was offline for a few hours. We’ve brought it back online now. As you may know, although the FUNcube Dongle was originally designed with receiving signals from space in mind, there’s nothing special about extraterrestrial radio waves when compared to those on terra firma. In fact, at least one FUNcube Dongle has even found its way into space itself on board a satellite. Back here with our feet on the ground, I received a link to an article in TechRepublic Dongle to sniff the ether around computers, and determine security keys in a so-called side-channel attack. Normally the RF hash as*ociated with computers is something that we try to avoid, but as far as I can tell, the researchers sniff the RF fingerprint of the cipher algorithms from the computer, and from that they can determine keys used in schemes like RSA. Today we spent some time with the new Raspberry Pi 2 and the FUNcube Dongle Pro Plus. As many will be aware, the original Raspberry Pi had a problem with its USB host stack, for which I released a workaround here WELL THE GOOD NEWS is that the Raspberry Pi 2 so far does not seem to show the same limitation. I recorded an hour of full bandwidth this afternoon, and it plays back perfectly, which would not have happened with the original Raspberry Pi. Talking of the Pi 2 in general, this is a very significant update. Compiling code natively on the original Pi was hard work, it was tediously slow. Frequently, you’d cross-compile, which although is frequently done, it’s hard to set up and the environment needs continually tweaking and updating. On the Pi 2 on the other hand, it’s like night and day, it’s a piece of cake to compile your code