FUNcube Dongle Pro+ Software Defined Radio

The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ SDR is a complete redesign of the original FUNcube Dongle with many performance improvements and additional features.

It covers LF, MF, HF, VHF, UHF and L Band (coverage is 150kHz-240MHz and 420MHz to 1.9GHz), and has an increased frequency span of 192kHz.

Watch FUNcube Dongle Pro+ demo

The FUNcube Dongle SDR was originally developed for educational outreach as part of the ground segment for the FUNcube satellite. A proportion of the sales goes to support the AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite project.

You can watch the FUNcube Pro+ presentation given by Howard Long G6LVB to the 2012 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in Guildford by following these steps:
• Go to http://www.batc.tv/
• Click on “Film Archive”
• Select “AMSAT 2012″ in the Category box and click on Select Category
• Select “02 – FUNcube PRO-PLUS” in the Stream box and click on Select Stream
• Click the play button in the video player window

The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ SDR will be on sale at http://www.FUNcubeDongle.com/

You can join the FCDProPlus Yahoo Group by following these steps:
• Send a blank email to fcdproplus-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
• Yahoo will send you an email in response, you may need to check your SPAM folder
• Click on the link in the email, this will bring up a Yahoo page in your browser
• On the Yahoo page ignore the big Join link in the middle and click on the link at the bottom of the page instead, it says: “As an alternate option, you may join the mailing list instead.”
• You should then join the list.

Some of the SDR decoding programs available include:
• SDR Sharp (SDR#) http://sdrsharp.com/
• SDR-Radio http://www.sdr-radio.com/
• HDSDR http://www.hdsdr.de/

A dedicated Yahoo group for the forthcoming AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Pro+ by Howard (G6LVB) can be found here- http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Fcdproplus/