[Ground-station] channelized FM SDR
KENT BRITAIN
wa5vjb at flash.net
Mon Nov 2 06:23:22 PST 2020
Way overkill on the filtering, but as Hannibal Smith of the A Team says...
"Over Kill is under rated"
Not bad for $15.
Kent
On Monday, November 2, 2020, 5:42:26 AM CST, Mike Seguin via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
I keep one of these around when I need something to plug in for a quick
test - even with it's limitations......
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-com-broadcast-fm-band-stop-filter-88-108-mhz-reject-now-for-sale/
On 11/1/2020 9:55 PM, KENT BRITAIN via Ground-Station wrote:
> Even a simile series tuned circuit to ground tuned to about 100 MHz can
> take a lot of the energy
> out of the FM band. This is a big problem we have been seeing with
> indoor TV antennas.
> The switch to Digital greatly reduced the ERP limits from the FCC. To
> compensate most of the
> TV antenna companies increased the gain of their amps. Lots of IP3
> problems from FM stations.
>
> A simple series .22uH 12 pf notch filter across the input of the amp
> does wonders.
> Not a brickwall filter, but does removes most of the FM Band energy from
> the amp input.
>
> Kent WA5VJB
>
>
>
> On Sunday, November 1, 2020, 8:19:23 PM CST, Robert McGwier
> <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> It is a real shame we can't purchase high quality FM bandstop filters. I
> have purchased some I hoped would work and they attenuated the FM band
> and much more. Next, as you well know, lots of people pretend every
> piece of crap they hook to the antenna terminal is a 50 Ohm resistive
> load at all frequencies from DC to light and doesn't crash the front end
> filtering etc with their decidedly not 50 Ohm resistive loads.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 10:42 AM KENT BRITAIN <wa5vjb at flash.net
> <mailto:wa5vjb at flash.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob
>
> I covered this topic at my Def Con talk on the Care and Feeding of
> SDR's.
>
> A bit harder to get these days, but Radio Shack and several others
> sell an
> FM Band Notch filter In with the rest of the TV accessories.
> Very little
> loss outside 80-120 MHz.
>
> These days if you put up a broad band antenna in a urban area, about
> 2/3rds of the RF energy it picks up will be in the FM Broadcast band.
> (Quite a bit of local variation in that 2/3rd's)
>
> Amazing how many guys though they could eliminate the FM band overload
> but just telling the SDR to ignore 88-108 MHz in the software.
>
> 73 Kent WA5VJB
>
>
>
> On Sunday, November 1, 2020, 10:20:36 AM CST, Robert McGwier via
> Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>
>
> A single strong FM transmitter anywhere near will collapse the front
> end. A FM bandstop filter also degrades 2 meter low end and has
> insertion loss that harms the sensitivity further.
>
> RTLSDR is great but you get what you pay for
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 2:10 PM Phil Karn via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/31/20 11:10 AM, Douglas Quagliana wrote:
> > Hi Phil,
> > Please let me know when the code is available. I would
> like to try
> > getting it to run off an RTLSDR dongle and try to have it
> identify the
> > callsigns of the repeaters that it receives.
> > 73,
> > Douglas KA2UPW/5
> >
> In principle I could use the RTL-SDR, but I haven't actually used it
> myself yet. It has a rather low dynamic range, so strong local
> repeaters
> could blank weaker signals on other channels within its bandwidth.
> Getting the most out it will probably require a lot of work on a
> good AGC.
>
> My favorite SDR used to be the AMSAT-UK Funcube dongle, but it has a
> very limited bandwidth (192 kHz). I'm now using the Airspy R2,
> which has
> a 10 MHz bandwidth and 12-bit sampling. This is enough to easily
> cover
> the entire 2m band. It can cover most of the 440-450 segment,
> but the
> actual coverage of SDR is a little less than 10 MHz because of
> anti-alias filtering ahead of the A/D. But it can easily cover
> the 5 MHz
> half of whatever segment used in your local area for repeater
> outputs
> (i.e., either 440-445 or 445-450).
>
> Phil
>
>
--
73,
Mike, N1JEZ
"A closed mouth gathers no feet"
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