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by Catbert59 322 days ago
Better also add a SAW bandpass and a properly designed amplification (LNA) stage to this.

The RTL-SDRs are great - but heavily limited in their dynamics (8 Bit ADC). They get deaf quickly if you are located next to strong transmitters like FM/DAB/DVB-T/etc.

Aliexpress has cheap antennas that include all of this.

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Hey, mind looking up a link to one of those antennas? Just don’t want to pick the wrong part, so many abbreviations and acronyms.

I picked up an rtl sdr about a year or two ago and haven’t done much outside of listening to local FM stations.

Would be fun to go a bit deeper. Track satellites or listen to boats/ planes / etc.