One note on the RTL-SDR: get a better antenna. The one that comes with most of them is less than stellar. You can always slap it on a cookie sheet for a decent ground plane, but an antenna upgrade does wonders. For what you pay for the setup, you still can't complain!
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Perkins, Jerry <je...@jperkins.us> wrote: > On 01/14/2015 10:04 AM, David R. Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 15:20 -0600, andrew mcelroy wrote: > > > So it was going to on GNU Radio. > > Me and David Wilson will pick up this topic. > We have both been using GNU radio and are both Hams ( He's a lot > smarter in this area than I am). > > > For that matter just do a search on eBay or Amazon for "RTL-820" . > > Dave > KU4B > > > > I did just that, checked out Amazon. Found many books. Ordered > the kindle version of "The Hobbyist's Guide to the RTL-SDR" by Carl > Laufer. Got through the first chapter which helped a lot in putting > together all the other information that Dave has supplied. Hoping to get > my RTL-820 in the mail today. > > -- > Jerry Perkins > Home page http://jperkins.us > > [image: Tux_Christmas_by_D3struct0.png] <http://jperkins.us> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Allen Minix / KM4DCZ Check out my blog! - http://thefatpenguin.blogspot.com -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
