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The OpenTuner software is designed to use a PicoTuner or a MiniTiouner together with a PC running Windows 10 or Windows 11. It is the only Windows software that supports the PicoTuner.
Settings for Receiving HamTV
OpenTuner was primarily designed to receive transmissions from the QO-100 geostationary satellite and needs some settings changed to enable reception of HamTV. The latest version can be downloaded in a zip file from this page: https://github.com/tomvdb/open_tuner/releases/tag/V0.B. Once you have downloaded the software, unzip it to a new folder.
Make sure that you have your tuner powered -up and connected by USB to your PC. Double-click the file opentuner.exe (which may just be labelled opentuner on your system) to start the software; no installation process is required. You may want to create a desktop or taskbar shortcut to this file. The first window you will see when the software opens is this:
Click on the tick boxes next to "BATC Wideband Spectrum (QO-100)" and "BATC Wideband Web Chat (QO-100)" to un-tick them. Ignore the greyed-out "ISS HamTV" tick box - this is not implemented or required.
The page should look like this. Now click on the "Source Settings" button. The wondow should look like this:
