I have got mine. It took about two weeks to reach MY from US. It arrived in normal envelope with thin air bubble wrap. Custom did inspect it though as the envelope was a bit torn and stamped 'with Custom Malaysia' or something like that.

I am not too sure on the custom procedure. However, you may have to pay sales tax of 10% for any purchase above RM500. Perhaps other members of this forum can enlighten on this.

By the way how much it cost you for the Hack?

That is great, hopefully mine will come in the normal bubble wrap envelope too I've went few custom clearance before but if they see it as a radio, they'll ask us to go to SIRIM to get an AP and clearance will be then based on the it.

I bought the HackRF with the antenna and Up Converter, US$377.95 (inclusive shipping)

By the way I have also ordered the up converter:-

Ham It Up v1.2 - RF Upconverter For Software Defined Radio 100555 1
Male MCX to Male SMA pigtail cable, RG174, 0.5' length 100572 1
Extruded Aluminum Enclosure Kit for Ham It Up v1.1 & v1.2
Color Silver 100594 1

It is being shipped now:-

Shipment Activity Location Date & Time
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Processed Through Sort Facility ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS) October 12, 2014 12:18 am

Probably it will another week to arrive MY.

I didn't bought the casing, so I need to go to Jalan Pasar afterward. Need to put them into a single enclosure. I've another project which need an enclosure too, a WSPR transmitter. Probably will visit Jln Pasar once I got both of them in my hands.

BTW, ordered all the cable patches and converters from ebay this morning, hope they'll arrive at the same time.

This post has been edited by wiraone: Oct 14 2014, 01:48 PM

I don't know what will the packaging be like since it includes the enclosure. I don't think that they will use normal envelope.

Can you check for me the price of RG58 per metre at Pasar Road, please. I should have bought the cable when I was there last week.

HackRF One:
Nice choice, and one of my wishlist's shortlist. It can TX 0.5 Watt, so, RF Amp is needed for more ooomph!

BTW, I visited 9M2NZ's house in Semenyih, and I saw him putting auido distributor component/board into a nice casing. I wonder where he got the casing..

Loofking forward for your review.

73

This post has been edited by bahathir: Oct 15 2014, 02:39 PM

Yup, it can transmit with the max of 15dBm on certain frequencies (translated to around 32mW - power of WIFI). Surely need an external amplifier if we wanted to really use it as transmitter.

Anyway, the one you were talking about at 9M2NZ house should be the cedum cedum ciss ciss thingy, ESSB (extended SSSB - HIFI quality) on HF. The audio from the mic will be processed and will take unusual wide bandwidth to cover the ESSB (3kHz and above), the usual audio bandwidth for SSB will be around 2.4kHz. There are quite a number of hams in Malaysia with this kind of setup and you can hear them usually on 40m band. The casing for the audio processor I believe will be as those found for PA setup, equipment/audio rack as I believe what it is called. Illuminated in blue, it is just nice like in a real studio.

BTW, just got an update from Nooelec saying my hackrf has been shipped, but in a package, so I believe it will be in a box. Hope it will pass the custom w/o any problem.

This post has been edited by wiraone: Oct 15 2014, 03:38 PM

I am not too sure about mine and I did not ask NooElec. But from the tracking it says - Service Type: International Letter. It is the same service type when I bought the dongle. How do you know that yours is in a package?

It says service type First Class Package International and not letter Oh, I checked again, the service type does say international letter. So, just wait and see. It has been picked up now and will just wait for the next two weeks for the package to arrive.

This post has been edited by wiraone: Oct 16 2014, 08:26 AM

Ramai rupenye sifu Aprs kumpul sini piju ruth wiraone

Wow Wiraone,

I wanted to buy one but it is pain in the ass for a USD400 card, (kena simpan duit dekat tabung dulu macam isteri orang tu untuk beli bag hermes)

Please download a pre-build ISO with GNU radio, the HackRF driver should be compiled inside the distro.
https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Get...F-and-GNU-Radio
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/news

This post has been edited by eddie_lim: Oct 17 2014, 04:22 PM

peguin78

I have encountered the problem like you too, the cable I used is custom made by a shop @ jalan pasar, along the public bank.
Thanks to google streetview, The shop is the red circled shop, just tell them you need to custom the cable, mine did it there.


https://www.google.com/maps/@3.1351444,101....r5GhbIg!2e0

This post has been edited by eddie_lim: Oct 17 2014, 04:21 PM

Haha, nice, now we can share google street view of the shops that we usually go.

Here is where I usually go for my cable & UHF connectors:

Intersco

And here is where I got my enclosures + ICs etc..

Nixie

This post has been edited by wiraone: Oct 17 2014, 10:16 AM

The cable reference for female - male converter of BNC , MCX etc is here

Pigtails:
SMA Male to MCX
SMA Male To SO239 (female)
SMA Male to PAL Male
SMA Male to BNC Female

Adapter Only:
SMA Female to SO239 (female)
SMA Female to SMA female

at least for the HAM-IT-UP to my PAL USB dongle

I tot that's read Instraco

Aya, haha, ok, Instraco Anyway, bought all my patch cables from ebay, hopefully will arrive at the same time as the hackrf

This post has been edited by wiraone: Oct 17 2014, 10:23 AM

Sometimes u need to go to jalan pasar for instant thing without waiting, eventhough abit expensive.
All my custom cables cost me about 80 bucks

Btw, is Nixie selling HAM-It-Up Enclosure? if you there that time please ask for me, now i know which place that wiraone always hang around

This post has been edited by eddie_lim: Oct 17 2014, 10:31 AM

Anybody here have an idea which company or what company is using 138.550 MHz?

Seems that they are communicating for the entire KL and Klang Valley.

Not an amateur frequency, not related to us and the hobby and shouldn't be discussed here I believe.