Sdr Noise Floor Reduction

I turned off all the power to my house to assure myself that the noise was not from a wall wart or anything else.

Sdr noise floor reduction. The sdr that i use next to my transceiver is the airspy spyverter combination. I ve already started using a usb extension cable instead of plugging the dongle into the pc. My objective was to calculate sdr spectrum noise floor from first principles using the above formula. Sorry i i just read the link to mariners blog so maybe external monitor is not used i still think it is the computer generating the noise wrap as many turns that will fit of the usb cable that connects to the dongle through a.

With a portable radio and a loop antenna i drove a lot of back roads mapping the noisy power poles. First i measured noise using cw mode with a 100 hz bandwidth. September 12 2020 11 39 pm peterr vk4khp. It should like any other receiver have a certain noise floor nf but this figure was hard to find on the internet so that i decided to measure it myself.

Written by admin posted in rtl sdr tagged with noise radio frequency interference rfi rtl sdr rtl2832u 8 comments. In this blog i will describe how i measured the nf the. What else can i do to reduce the noise floor and get rid of the rfi on 2 meters. I ve recently received an rtl sdr dongle and i m picking up a lot of noise that is probably coming from my pc especially a lot of spikes on the 2m band.

Sdr spectrum noise floor running the numbers. Written by admin 10 comments posted in amateur radio hf rtl sdr tagged with hf noise floor rtl sdr rtl2832 rtl2832u january 17 2017 lowering the noise floor on hf with high quality coax bonito is a company that sells various products such as their own small active antennas. Working with two power coops i got. Found some dirty wall warts and got rid of them.