![]() ![]() So in short if you’ve recently purchased an FCDPP, you shouldn’t have any need to update the firmware. If the sun measures -43 and the sky measures -56 by one scheme and the sun. The price of the new FUNcube Dongle Pro+ is GBP124.99 (plus 20 VAT if you are in the European Union). ![]() Here we are looking at a sun-noise Y-factor of around 5.7dB Dont worry about the absolute values of the numbers because were only interested in difference between them. Both the FCDP and FCDPP include several safety mechanisms both in software and hardware to perform a sanity check in case the firmware’s wrong, and if it makes no sense the device will sit in bootloader mode to prevent “bricking” the device. Below is the trace from SpectraVue looking that the 90kHz wide output from a FunCube pro plus SDR. Next time I will! There should be no harm if you inadvertently upload the wrong firmware, but the unit should simply remain in bootloader mode until a valid firmware image is uploaded. nezbrun 5.07K subscribers The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ is a complete redesign of the original FUNcube Dongle with many performance improvements and additional features. ![]() When I wrote the bootloaders for the FCDP and FCDPP, I didn’t include a check to ensure the right firmware files were for the correct FCD. (The only other public version in the very early FCDPP units were inadvertently sent out with FCC cellular blocked frequency ranges, other than that they functioned perfectly well).Īlthough the names of the two FUNcube Dongle models are similar, they’re almost entirely different hardware designs, and the firmware designed for an FCDP won’t work in a FCDPP, nor the other way around. As you may know, there are two FUNcube Dongle models out there, the original FUNcube Dongle Pro (aka FCDP, serial numbers below 10000, firmware v18x where x is a release letter, with v18j the most recent) and the newer FUNcube Dongle Pro+ (aka FCDPP, serial numbers 10000 and above, firmware v20.xx, with v20.03 the most recent).įCDPPs shipped since about November 2012 with serial numbers 10250 or so and above already have the latest 20.03 firmware shipped with them, so there is no need to perform an update. ![]()
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