![]() ![]() The standard presentation includes necessary cabling (including a USB splitter cable), a couple of antenna port adaptors, a soft bag in which you can move the radio, and an 8 GB USB ‘thumb drive’ containing the software and manuals. The FDM-S2 is small, and powers through its USB interface. ![]() So I bought Parallels and paid my Microsoft tax for a copy of Windows 8.1, which I duly installed on my iMac 27″ mid 2011 (iMac12,2), with a quad-core i7 running at 3.4 GHz, and 16 GB of memory. Reports were, though, that they worked fine under virtualisation, such as Parallels Desktop. Reviewing the hardware possibilities, the ELAD FDM-S2 stood out in terms of value for money being a USB system, though, it relied on drivers, which were only available for Windows. However I also wanted VHF coverage, and was unable to find a reasonably priced SDR which worked over Ethernet. My preference was for a device which interfaced via Ethernet, which would make a driver unnecessary, and would ease the issue of OS X support. I then looked for a high-quality SDR which was well-supported by Mac software. My interest awakened by a cheap RTL-SDR ‘dongle’, I thought it was time to try out a more serious software-defined radio (SDR) receiver with my iMac. ![]()
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