[TenTec] OT: SDRplay ???

[rick@dj0ip.de]

OK, Tnx to everyone who replied so far.
Good information and certainly different from what I read on eham.

I'm not interested in monitoring 10 MHz.  What for?  

I'm interested in monitoring around the band I'm working on.
I'm interested in looking at how wide individual signals are, etc.
  
I have a darn good preselector and it also has an attenuator and an amp.
However having to add attenuation is not a good sign.
We have harsher band condx over here, especially on 40m so I'm a little
uncertain.

Has anyone here in Europe used it on the low bands at night?

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)



-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sole
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 3:13 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: SDRplay ???

I have one and like it a lot, great tool for noise hunting as well. 
There are options to turn the gain down which helps in some overload
situations. If you want to see the full 10Mhz bandwidth at once you will
need USB3, USB2 will be awful choppy at more than about 2MHz. I have seen a
website/YTV(youtube video) where someone rebuilt one into a metal enclosure
for better immunity. Also saw lining the case with copper foil done. Nothing
is perfect but at the price point it's a lot of radio for little money and
with its other tool like functionality it's more than just a radio.

Martin, HS0ZED



On 16/12/2016 13:26, rick at dj0ip.de wrote:
> Tnx Barry,
>
> I was reading eham reports (which I don't value very high) but there 
> seemed to be a lot of complaints about overloading on large antennas.  
> Mine will be on an all band dipole so it picks up plenty of signal from
lots of bands.
>
> I can use a preselector with it, I have a couple.
> One thing I read that makes sense though I don't know if it is true, 
> was one should never place a direct conversion RX in a plastic enclosure.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry 
> N1EU
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 12:15 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: SDRplay ???
>
> I was just researching this Rick, contemplating adding a panadapter to 
> my Omni 6+.  The SDRplay is a good performer in the $100-$150 range 
> but if you want to spend just a bit more ($200-$250), the Afedri 
> (ethernet interface) seems a better unit.
>
> 73, Barry N1EU
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:00 AM, rick at dj0ip.de <Rick at dj0ip.de> wrote:
>
>> How does the SDRplay compare to other SDR receivers in its price range?
>>
>> What else should I be looking at?
>>
>> Tnx
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Rick, DJ0IP
>>
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