Rocky.zip

Rocky 3.8

SDR software for the SoftRock radio

FREEWARE

System Requirements


RF Hardware: SoftRock. If SoftRock is not available, Rocky can be used to play back I/Q data recordings.

Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x or Windows 10. Rocky 3.7 was the last version that worked on Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP..


CPU: Pentium 4, 1GHz or higher is recommended. I tested the program on a P4 3GHz system and on Athlon 600 MHz. It worked on both, but the CPU load was about 40% on Athlon at the 48 kHz sampling rate. On the Pentium, the CPU load was 7% at 48 kHz and 10% at 96 kHz.


RAM: 256 Mb. Rocky requires about 7 Mb of memory. Add 200 Mb or so for the operating system ;-)


Sound Card: Delta-44 is what I currently use. My on-board SoundMAX also works with Rocky, but it does not support the 96 kHz sampling rate and generates a lot more noise than Delta.





Quick Start

Download Rocky from the Downloads section of this web site, unzip and run Setup.exe. Follow the on-screen instructions;

Start Rocky and click on View / Settings in the menu.

Select the input and output devices, and specify the sampling rate. If you have two sound cards, select different cards for input and output. This will allow Rocky to open the output card at a lower sampling rate and thus save some CPU cycles.

Click on the DSP tab and enter the exact frequency of the LO in your SoftRock.

Click on the Start Radio button.

Use the Windows volume control to set the desired volume. You have to do this only once, the AGC will take care of the rest.

Read the section below to learn the basic commands.

If you have the RXTX version of SoftRock, see the Transmitter section on the Advanced Topics page.


Program bezpłatny (FREEWARE).

Powinien działać również pod Linuksem (w Wine).