You'll need to download the SDR# program, and possibly a driver for your PC.
They don't receive below about 70MHz, so shortwave is not an option.
http://sdrsharp.com/
73, Jim
On 01/12/2013 11:16 PM, Scott Smith wrote:
Hi folks, I now have one of those Newsky dongles and an mcx to bnc adapt
There are upconverters available to receive HF.
http://www.ct1ffu.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178&Itemid=104
Dave-KB1PVH
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You'll need to download the SDR# program, and possibly a driver for your PC.
They don't receive below about
Search for funcube upconverter on Ebay, there is one there now.
Dave-KB1PVH
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>Does anyone know what the conversion spec is? What input range maps to
>what output range? Seems like a most basic spec, but I can't find it
>anywhere.
>
"Fire up your favorite SDR software. Tune to 100MHz + (+/- the tuning offset
from the tuning procedure) + your desired frequency and
On 01/13/2013 04:45 PM, Greg Dolkas wrote:
Right, I got that part. But what is the input range? Does it cover DC to
100Mhz continuous? Down to 160 meters? AM broadcast? VLF? Sensitivity?
Image rejection?
It's nice to know that it uses it has a PTC fuse on the USB port, but for
an RF device,
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From: Gary Mayfield
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:17 PM
To: jke...@verizon.net ; ko6th.g...@gmail.com ; aa...@suddenlink.net
Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Newsky dongle?
I think I would want to go a little more than 100 MHz (maybe 120). The
commercial FM station on
Tnx everyone for you help, I downloaded the SDR# (HDSDR) program and tried
listening in on our local repeater 146.820 on both NFM and WFM, just noise must
be doing something wrong. Maybe needs some driver?. I also ordered the
UPconverter and will try listening on some HF stations. Once again tnx
Scott,
I too have just started playing with the NooElec SDR. One thing that hit me
between the eyes is that the SDR is not very sensitive. I have had moderate
success copying local two meter traffic and APRS signals on 144.390 by using
a broad band preamp at the radio and also one at the ante
Hello everybody,
I'm using SDR# (v.999) with several dongles (FCD, FC0013, E4000) and it
works great.
I could suggest to use a notch filter (it could be a quarter wave stub) to
limit front-end overload from FM broadcasting.
Hope that helps,
73s
Fabio
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