You are probably experiencing the crash when you try to scan and find a USRP EXTIO radio in SDR Console. The trick is you have to run at least one time, the uhd_usrp_probe which is located in C:\Program files (x86)\UHD\bin\ Once you do that you will see it loads the FPGA image/hex image and displays info on your B200. Now you can go back and open the SDR console program and scan for the device and it will show up. On Apr 5, 2014, at 1:39 AM, Armand Sperduti <armands@intaq.com> wrote: > Hi Benito, > > Your reply to Robert McIntyre caught my eye. > Could you tell me how you have your B200 configured to work with SDR > Console? > I would like to do that myself. So far unsuccessful. > > Best regards, > - Armand Sperduti > > > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:36:14 -0400 > From: Benito Horta <bhorta1@gmail.com> > To: usrp-users@lists.ettus.com > Subject: [USRP-users] Newbie with pre-purchase questions... > Message-ID: <2B101BF1-6955-4FA1-9924-107C0756C38E@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Also with SDR console you can have upto 6VFOs running simultaneously within > the Carved out spectrum. In windows I have been able to use the B200 with > SDR# and the SDR Radio V 2.2 software. Linux is better if you want to do > much more advanced things via Gnu radio etc.. > > With SDR# you need to load an older FPGA image to use it, it ships with the > EXTIO packaged at wiki.spench.net > > this is available at http://wiki.spench.net/wiki/USRP_Interfaces > > you can do that with b2xx_fx3_utils -I path to fpga.bin file in the > directory where you installed the files from the website > then b2xx_fx3_utils - W path to fpga.bin file in the directory where you > installed the files from the website > > SDR console will work with the current FPGA bin. > > both have pros and cons. > > SDR# seems better suited for analyzing > SDR console seems better as a radio i.e. with the Multi VFOs and the > filters/demodulators seem to be better that the SDR# > > I have the B200 it has two RX inputs which is nice, means I can have a > general omnidirectional for locating RF activity in the vicinity, then a > directional Yagi for source point location. You can switch between the two. > > Now this stuff is CPU heavy. I have a dedicated workstation for this, 3770K > cpu, 8GB low latency memory and SSD's. and The cpu is averaging 40% > utilization with a 32RBW watching a 26Mhz section of bandwidth. > > Anyhow this kind of capability would cost megabucks, and you would be paying > top dollar for gear from companies like Rhode & Schwarz. SDR is definitely > the wave of the future, this is the equivalent of experimenting with > radio/deforest tubes in the 1920s :) > >