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Jon_G4MDC · 14th Jan 2021, 1:13 pm

Good luck, a little more about the RTL-SDR V3.

It will cover CB through 6,4,2&70cm very well using the TV tuner front end fed by a suitable antenna. Unless you happen to live under the Sandy Heath TV transmitter maybe!

It has a switch for use at HF which is a direct sampling mode. This really needs an external filter to work well. It's of some use fed broadband but it gets a lot of distress from Medium Wave broadcast signals. Also there is an image issue where you see 0-14.4 and 14.4-28.8 MHz folded back on themselves.

HF is confusing until you have a preselector but these are easily built from readily available parts.

14th Jan 2021, 1:13 pm	#9
Jon_G4MDC Nonode Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK. Posts: 2,015	Re: Looking to become Ham listener Good luck, a little more about the RTL-SDR V3. It will cover CB through 6,4,2&70cm very well using the TV tuner front end fed by a suitable antenna. Unless you happen to live under the Sandy Heath TV transmitter maybe! It has a switch for use at HF which is a direct sampling mode. This really needs an external filter to work well. It's of some use fed broadband but it gets a lot of distress from Medium Wave broadcast signals. Also there is an image issue where you see 0-14.4 and 14.4-28.8 MHz folded back on themselves. HF is confusing until you have a preselector but these are easily built from readily available parts.