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<font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS">A typo, the AD9361 is the more
expensive board. The board I got has the </font><font size="5"
face="Comic Sans MS">AD9363.<br>
The board has a more robust FPGA, the Xilinx Zynq-7020 instead of
the 7010. This gives you 4 times the space to make mistakes. I'm
not a very good programmer, but I know how to copy and paste real
good.<br>
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I set this Pluto aside for a bit so I could finish a "Pod" for my
Pifly project. I got a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with a USB hat on
top. I stuck a RTL-SDR dongle in one of the USB and a dual band
WiFi dongle in the USB at the other end. Why not the onboard WiFi
on the Zero 2W? First, I will need to switch between 2.4 and 5.8
gig WiFi ad the Pi Zero 2W only does 2.4 and second I tried adding
an U.FL connector to the board for an external antenna and
completely messed up. I turned off the native WiFi on the board
with software (shopping for a binocular microscope).<br>
Anyway I started this email in the afternoon and then got crazy
busy working on the pod. The pod is finished and mounted on the
DJI Phantom 3 S (W/O camera). I hope for first flight tomorrow,
I'll get some pics and of course make a YouTube video. Retirement
is hard work....<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/30/2026 6:22 PM, 'alex fraser' via
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<font size="4" face="Comic Sans MS">I got it on Amazon, but the
company name on the board is from Opensource Labs. The docs
from the config.txt URL point the OSlabs too. It is a AD9363
chip. Boards with the </font><font size="4"
face="Comic Sans MS">AD9363 chip cost a bit more.<br>
I am hoping to fly this Pluto in one of my drones. Downlink via
WiFi.<br>
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<div>It's nice to know about the Pluto+ (Pro) - it's got a lot
of nice features that the original ADALM-Pluto was missing,
in particular true AD9361 chips and USB-C (as well as
Gigabit) which lets you get at that nice 56 MHz bandwidth,
instead of being locked behind USB 2.0 speeds!</div>
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<div>Where did you buy yours from? I see SkyBits Lab and
OpenSourceSDRLab have good reputations.</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS">I
couldn't wait. I went down to my workshop/shack,
turned on a laptop and booted Linux Mint. I dug out a
USB cable and plugged it in to the computer, then, and
this is always the exciting part, plugged it into the
little Pluto. Ah, no smoke, no funny smell and three
tiny, very bright LEDs lit up, one blinking. I'd read
that when hooked up this way the board appeared as an
external storage device, so I started Mint's file
manager and there it was, a drive named Pluto. I opened
it and some files appeared, one was config.txt which I
right clicked and opened with the native editor. I had
read using my AI Elmer that that file was where I could
change the IP address to match my home LAN, but I didn't
change it just yet. At the top of that config.txt file
in the comments (behind the #s) was a URL. I cut and
pasted it into my browser and was taken to a page with </font><font
size="5" face="Comic Sans MS">nice instructions on the
workings of the board, how sweet is that? I stopped
there. All in all I spent about 15 minutes on this. <br>
Seems to me that devices have gotten much more capable,
yet are getting easier to configure, does anyone
remember serial ports?<br>
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I'm jumping further into SDR. I ordered a Pluto plus
and it is now sitting in the shack. So am I.<br>
My first impulse was to plug it in right away, but I'm
older and will wait till tomorrow and till after I read
up a bit.<br>
Anyone in the club playing with this gizmo?</font>
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