So, has anyone here been playing with SDR?

Specifically I am thinking of using one of those USB TV receivers (from overseas - they work with DAB or DVB+T which isn’t our standard over here in the states) and either gnuradio or something else.

There was an article in QST (a ham radio magazine) ‘recently’ about it, so I rushed out and bought one of the USB thingys and now I’m trying to get all the pieces in the right place.  I’ve tried SDR#, gnuradio-companion, and probably a few other things.  The controls for SDR# don’t seem to work for me, and also I don’t seem to be able to get the receiver and the software tied together.

Is anyone else playing with this?

Rusty