Downloads FUNcube Dongle. FUNcube Dongle Guides by David Barber. An introduction to the FUNcube Dongle. Setting up Spectravue with the FUNcube Dongle. Firmware Update Guide UpdatedWRPlus FCD configuration updated 8 Feb 2. WRPlus Satellite FCD setup updated 8 Feb 2. Some software downloadsWindows fully functional front end. Screen_Shot_2013-10-21_at_11.45.54_AM.png?t=1419207514272' alt='Stage Plot Pro Serial Windows' title='Stage Plot Pro Serial Windows' />Windows fully functional front end with source needs firmware 1. Windows fully functional front end with source needs firmware 1. Basic front end with source code. Boot loader with source code. First public firmware release v. Stage Plot Pro Serial Windows 10Beta firmware release v. Firmware pre release v. Firmware pre release v. Firmware v. 18f very stable releaseFirmware v. IQ correction included in firmwareFirmware v. Firmware v. 18j Recommended current version fix the filter preselection between 8. MHz 1. GHzQt cross platform source code original by your truly, a bit flakyMuch better Qt cross platform frequency control app with source code by Alexandru Csete. Notes The fully featured front end makes use of some functionality that exposes some NDA device functionality via a back door API that I used in the early days, so theres no source available Im afraid. That functionality will be available in the documented API firmware that Im working on as we speak. Tip with the fully featured front end, pressing the Defaults button is almost always the right thing to do when you first plug in the FCD or launch the app. It resets a bunch of gain parameters to something sensible. News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. The basic front end only allows frequency changing. Known features of the Qt host code this has been written from scratch and these bugs not apply to the earlier Windows only codeo Under Windows, when switching back from bootloader to normal application SDR mode, the FCD seems to stay in bootloader mode. Workaround remove FCD and plug back in again a few seconds later. Under OS X and Linux, Switch to bootloader crashes the app. Workaround Restart the application without removing the FCD. The FCD should now be in bootloader mode. Under OS X and Linux, Switch to application crashes the app, and FCD remains in bootloader mode. Workaround Kill app, remove and reinsert FCD after a few sconds, then restart the application. The FCD should now be in application mode. Using the bootloader. From the fully featured front end, put the dongle into Bootloader mode by pressing the Reset to bootloader button. The Frequency Control app will no longer be able to send messages to the dongle once it is in bootloader mode. Dont panic, as long as you havent erased the device or written a bad binary image aka a. SDR mode. If you erased it or wrote a bad image to the device, it will spend its life in bootloader mode until a correct image is written. Enable Integrated Windows Authentication Registry Key Ie 8. I spent an awful lot of time trying to make sure its very difficult to brick the FCD, in fact I havent managed to do it yet in its current version. Run the FCHIDBL. exe program. It should show something like this HIDOpen of Vid0. PidFB5. 6 returns 1. USB VIDPID found. Cara Youtube Tanpa Software Dengan Internet Explorer. HIDQuery returns 1. Query message FCDBLFCD in bootloader mode. Byte address range 0x. A0. 0 0x. 00. 7E0. PC address range 0x. C0. 0 0x. 00. 54. Device ID address set. Device ID read, DEVID0x. DEVREV0x. 02. 00. Open the. bin firmware image file with the Open file button. Press the Write firmware button. This takes about ten seconds or so. When in bootloader mode, the soundcard interface says BOOTLOADER in 2. WPM CW if you run your SDR program6. Press the Reset to app button and the dongle will now be back in SDR mode. Note that the bootloader app will show the following after Reset to app is pressed HIDOpen of Vid0. PidFB5. 6 returns 1. USB VIDPID found. HIDQuery returns 0. Error, query device failed. This is normal as the bootloader has realilsed the FCDs no longer in bootloader mode.