WiFi Dongle for second WiFi device

[Paul M]

You will have seen that I applied no updates during the process I summarised above. I just took the vanilla image and applied it. I am not a fan of updating just because they're there. Others may disagree and that's fine, I am not for a moment saying my approach is right; but if something works I tend to leave it.

However following on from above I have just done a "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade". This brings in not only the OS updates but also the OpenPlotter ones too but they need to be applied separately.

I went into OpenPlotter settings>OpenPlotter Apps and applied all the pending tasks. OS and OP then are bang up to date.
USB wifi dongle is still working perfectly.

I have now received and tested the Ralink wifi dongle and can confirm that it works with Openplotter V2 without requiring any additional drivers, I have also applied the Openplotter updates and can again confirm that it works as expected without any of the symptoms I encountered with the other dongles.
Thanks to baltika_no_9 and all who have contributed to this thread.
Paul