FUNcube Dongle Pro

Getting started with FUNcube Dongle Pro+ (Linux)

The only requirement to use FUNcube Dongle Pro+ is to make it accessible by a normal user. It's a standard procedure (first step) before using FUNcube in Linux environment. You can check if you can access the receiver using command line (as normal user!):

arecord -l

If you can see the dongle (something similar to output shown below), it should just work with the PW-Sat2 Ground Station application.

karta 2: V20 [FUNcube Dongle V2.0], urządzenie 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Urządzenia podrzędne: 0/1
  Urządzenie podrzędne #0: subdevice #0

If you can't see any entry with [FUNcube Dongle V2.0] name, but you see when issuing sudo arecord -l (as root), you have to set proper permissions.

1. Download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csete/fcdctl/master/funcube-dongle-proplus.rules file with udev rules.
2. Copy file to proper place: sudo cp funcube-dongle-proplus.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/70-funcube-dongle-proplus.rules
3. Reboot your computer.
4. Add user to audio and pulse-access groups: sudo adduser pwsat2gs audio and then sudo adduser pwsat2gs pulse-access
5. You should be able to see the device on list arecord -l (as normal user). Then you are ready to use your dongle with our application.

Getting started with FUNcube Dongle Pro+ (Windows)

To use FCD+ on Windows - please refer to official documentation. Currently the application supports FCD+ on Windows via SSB method. It means you have to use separate software like SDR# (Windows SDR Software Package). Read more at SSB audio in source page.