You can get a soft failure by overloading a receiver input, let alone a hard failure. If you are testing a $15 dongle, no big loss. If you are testing a real receiver, I would check to see what is the maximum allowable input power.
Using a signal generator is a matter of RTFMing. Original Message From: GNUBeginner Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 11:57 AM To: Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dB or dBm How could I generate this simple sinusoidal signal with fixed frequency and amplitude using Anritsu MG3710A? -- View this message in context: http://gnuradio.4.n7.nabble.com/dB-or-dBm-tp64323p64333.html Sent from the GnuRadio mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio