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Modified Osmocom drivers with enhancements for RTL-SDR Blog V3 and V4 units.
https://www.rtl-sdr.com
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rtl_test shows no errors #43

Closed bc4040 closed 7 months ago

bc4040 commented 7 months ago

Generic RTL2832U OEM tuner was in a state where it was unresponsive (rtl_sdr output produced a 0 byte file in all cases), yet rtl_test does not report any errors in this condition. I believe this may be due to overheating

rtlsdrblog commented 7 months ago

An RTL-SDR won't just produce a 0 byte file because of overheating. Overheating can cause the PLL to lose lock, but only at the upper frequencies above 1.5 GHz, and this is very unlikely on a V3 or V4 because of some mods we've done to the hardware. If the PLL loses lock, you'd just get noise as the output file data.