Cheap RTL-SDR.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:11 pm
Not having an SDR, I couldn't make up my mind which one to get, so I decided to go for the cheapest and take it from there. This one is £10.50, delivered in a few days from a UK supplier. It's an RTL-SDR type, which only has 2MHz or so bandwidth.
It says the tuner chip is the FC0012, but SDRSharp reports it as the more desirable R820T, which goes to 1766MHz, rather than 948MHz.
I don't have a Portsdown 4 set up to test it on, so caveat emptor and there's no telling with these things that the one you buy a few days later has the same insides. I find it works very well for casual listening on QO-100 NB and it's fairly stable after warming up.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195243005959
After the 'last one' is sold, 10 more miraculously appear.
Brian
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It says the tuner chip is the FC0012, but SDRSharp reports it as the more desirable R820T, which goes to 1766MHz, rather than 948MHz.
I don't have a Portsdown 4 set up to test it on, so caveat emptor and there's no telling with these things that the one you buy a few days later has the same insides. I find it works very well for casual listening on QO-100 NB and it's fairly stable after warming up.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195243005959
After the 'last one' is sold, 10 more miraculously appear.
Brian
.
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