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Title: Choosing an online SDR as a station receiver Post by: K8DI on July 22, 2023, 08:21:04 AM So, noise at my QTH has made this hobby frustrating. 80m is unusable, s9+20 all the time. 40m on a good day is s6-7, which means signals need to be s9 to copy with effort, 20 over for comfortable copy with light fading. On a bad day it’s s9+10, then, unless there’s a big gun going at it, there’s just uncopyable mumbling… Maybe others can hear better at those S/N ratios, but for me, the end result is that I rarely get on the air, because it’s no fun.
So I’ve checked many SDRs. About half seem to have decent reception combined with low noise. Many of the others suffer from BCB overload or weak signal or both. So of the decent ones, how does one select an appropriately located remote receiver? One thought I have is to choose one that can hear me. Another is to choose one that can’t. A third is to try to figure out which ones/distances make sense for hearing the people who can hear me (which would vary if the band goes long, etc.). Who else has made a choice here on this, and how did you choose, and how is it working? Ed Title: Re: Choosing an online SDR as a station receiver Post by: W1ITT on July 22, 2023, 12:17:13 PM For use as a substitute station receiver, I'd choose an SDR that has good RF performance and probably within a hundred miles, so you'd hear and be heard about the same. Luckily, my rural QTH isn't bad except for an occasional power line insulator problem. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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