Thanks Graham.
Not really that interested in transmitting - been licensed over fifty
years and done my share - far more interested in earwigging these days!
Nope, Elad it is I think.
Martin GW3UCJ.
The holy grail is to find one that transmits as well , there was
one tx/rx demonstrated a few years back at the rsgb convention,
which was to retail round £200 , that price looks to be the norm
now , but if it also tx's then that's more use ..
There is a new ''kiwi sdr'' rx-only $200 , which is showing up
as a web linked system by the users , this seems to be very good
Other than that , lots of lower bit ones about , but even with
lots of bits , there dynamic range , is not going to get close to
the like's of the racals 5 watt mixer drive 120 dB 4 fet cct and
there is some conjecture round the actual usable number of bits ,
compared to the physical bit count ,
In saying that , the rtl 8 bit works better than the ft897 on 1.8
and 3.5 mhz :(
pre- b/w filtering would appeared to be required to keep the out
of band carriers at a reasonable level
73-G,
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