This SDR is round $200 , has anyone used one ?
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http://www.lazydogengineering.com/LD-1A_SDR.html
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From: "Martin Evans." <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:43 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: LF: Re: RFspace SDR-IQ
Hello group.
Has anyone any experience with this SDR ?
It looks interesting and I'm a bit tempted, especially as it works full
spec down to 500 Hz and "usable" to 100 Hz.
But as I have never used an SDR, I haven't got a clue if it's any good or
not.
Tony.
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Tony - I received SAQ two ways a few days ago -
1) wire antenna straight into sound card, using Winrad;
2) Same wire antenna through SDR-IQ using SDR-Radio.
Antenna is 100m inverted U tuned with around 100mH (can't really remember
exactly).
I swapped the antenna physically between the two setups every few seconds.
I was using two separate computers, one for each method.
Result? - really very little difference. A good clear signal on both.
The sound card/Winrad setup might have been marginally cleaner, but
bearing in mind that this was a lashup, with no attempt at any kind of
optimisation or minimalisation of computer noise, I would say that the
SDR-IQ was close to being the equal of the "wire into soundcard" method.
With some careful filtering to clean up the computer noise, it would
almost certainly equal or exceed it.
I found incidentally, that SDR-Radio software has a much more sensitive
waterfall display than the Spectravue supplied with the SDR-IQ. The former
gave a strong clear trace, while the latter's trace was barely
discernable.
Get one - SDRs are the best thing since CW!
Hope this helps,
Martin GW3UCJ Swansea.
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