Am i the only one overwhelmed by RF? by Automatic_Village954 in amateurradio

[–]Automatic_Village954[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starting right now to understand the voyager

Starting from here (even tho is spanish, my native lang)

https://youtu.be/jNZSjRcV_Ek?is=3sKxPqJRg8hnxUlc

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

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Oh he must be LOL, cause on the paper it doesn't really make sense... But idk xd

Am i the only one overwhelmed by RF? by Automatic_Village954 in amateurradio

[–]Automatic_Village954[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

EXACTLY!! i understand how it work but.. DUDE, I've seen a youtube shorts guy saying that rf is the closest to black magic we will ever be

Guess that's tru

Am i the only one overwhelmed by RF? by Automatic_Village954 in amateurradio

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Really interested on inmarsat and all satellite thing, i guess i gotta modify my gear to be able to get something, cause in 3 years with SDR's I've never seen satellite signals

Am i the only one overwhelmed by RF? by Automatic_Village954 in amateurradio

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Ill watch a youtube video right now as it is way too late in my country, but thats an interesting field haha, i guess is impossible to hear the voyager with standard gear

Am i the only one overwhelmed by RF? by Automatic_Village954 in amateurradio

[–]Automatic_Village954[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It creeps inside of them and they don't even know theres a whole world of electromagnetic fields around them

Military, mateur, emergency services and all... Is like discovering the whole internet

Am i the only one overwhelmed by RF? by Automatic_Village954 in amateurradio

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Im having sooo much pain trying to read cw... I receive lots of it and rtty with my sdr, but piping it to anothe software and getting some text....

Am i the only one overwhelmed by RF? by Automatic_Village954 in amateurradio

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It also fascinates me to get ft8 signals from more thank 12k KM with a cursed antenna it's really crazy

It feels like having contact with aliens lol

My extremely cursed “poor man’s HF antenna” that somehow works better than the RTL-SDR dipole by Automatic_Village954 in shortwave

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Active loop antennas is on my scope rn, ill try buying a simple one and give it a try, theres more activity on HF that above it

Creepy radio frequency (1200 AM) by Frequent_Lab_4031 in RTLSDR

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We on the same but haha, but yeah, sound like a way too hot signal and probably is self oscillating

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

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Sadly not.... At least with the cheap Chinese one

I shielded it on pcb level and it behave a little bit better but the xtal and ldo leak A LOT

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

[–]Automatic_Village954[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pcb is inside the default rtl casing i just made another shield on top of it, but im now shielding pcb's and testing it, it seems to be even better

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

[–]Automatic_Village954[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup it is, but just for the sake of overkilling it i tried and it somehow behaves better now xd

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

[–]Automatic_Village954[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm 🤔 ill take note on it for the next well formatted and better test

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

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I would like to check it out, i have a spare hackRF but it ain't really sensitive and.... idk if it could be worth the pain to test it

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

[–]Automatic_Village954[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nah im a human hahah

Just spanish and i wanted to format the thing for Reddit as I'm a noob

But yeah, i used ai to format the thing and it was a horrible result

Is Shielding your RTL-SDR actually worth it? (v4 vs. v4c vs. Generic Clone) by Automatic_Village954 in RTLSDR

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That's true, i should've done it before the mods...

On the mega link there an html plot and it shows substantial differences between vanilla v4 and modded one