[450] The noise!

[John Foege]

Just letting you all know that you wint hear jack shit on the telescoping whip. Only broadcast FM stations and really strong local stuff...

Need to adapt the PAL antenna connector to something else (otherwise it's useless).

John
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-----Original Message-----
From: David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>
Sender: 450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.comDate: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:53:52 
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Subject: Re: [450] The noise!

huzzah

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:52 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ <kc1wj at kc1wj.com> wrote:
> I think I have it figured out. There are quite a few online tutorials.
> Here's a good one.
> http://www.atouk.com/SDRSharpQuickStart.html#installation
>
>
> Quoting John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com>:
>
>> These sticks are to receive DVB TV in Europe bill...they aren't going to
>> work here.
>>
>> You have to use SDR Sharp and special drivers.
>>
>> Dave can help you.
>>
>> BTW Dave...your noise floor is @ -40 dBm but you should turn off RTL AGC
>> and Tuner AGC with the configure button and adjust your IF Gain
>> manually...also the contrast slider on the FFT waterfall is useful in your
>> situation...
>>
>> You can get much better performance out of it when you do the above...
>>
>> Also can use the PPM offset to get your freq readout accurate. Mine was
>> 30PPM off...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: William Knapp / KC1WJ
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>> What software are you using? The supplied software that came with mine
>> isn't working and the manual is in German.
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting David McKenzie <dmckenzie at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Here's an image of my local noise when pointed at it with the
>>> horizontal beam using that dvb stick and sdr#
>>>
>>
>>
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