Sdr Noise Floor Reduction

With a portable radio and a loop antenna i drove a lot of back roads mapping the noisy power poles.

Sdr noise floor reduction.

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. My objective was to calculate sdr spectrum noise floor from first principles using the above formula. My noise floor on 160m in the daytime was s9 30. 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.

First i measured noise using cw mode with a 100 hz bandwidth. I ran two receivers rsp2 and perseus side by side sharing the same antenna on the same frequency. Found some dirty wall warts and got rid of them. In this blog i will describe how i measured the nf the.

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. I ve already started using a usb extension cable instead of plugging the dongle into the pc. In this video mike shows how to use the nr noise reduction features in sdruno this is one of many video guides from sdrplay makers of the rsp family of s. What else can i do to reduce the noise floor and get rid of the rfi on 2 meters.

Written by admin posted in rtl sdr tagged with noise radio frequency interference rfi rtl sdr rtl2832u 8 comments. 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 spectrum noise floor running the numbers. September 12 2020 11 39 pm peterr vk4khp.