I actually emailed dennis at bonito.
Sdr noise floor.
I ve checked my connections and they seem to be ok.
In this blog i will describe how i measured the nf the.
With the rtl sdr having an 8 bit adc you hit sampling noise pretty quickly.
Any ideas on what may be causing this bouncing and how i can minimise it.
Entering the noise floor.
Sawbird lna nooelec nesdr smartee sdr 0 90001 msps.
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A few weeks previously a reasonable logic was implemented for measuring the noise floor.
When recording a pass of noaa 18 i noticed that the noise floor was bouncing up and down causing lines on the image.
Vhf fm broadcast outside the band of interest which is hf 30mhz.
Unless you put an lna in front of it.
Some of the issues that i have encountered in the past have been remedied by recent updates.
The better shielded coax may masking a bigger problem with the overall system.
Again the noise floor on the sdr is around 70db and i did just as well or better with one of those bnc connected accessory wires that come with many sw radios.
Ultimately your thermal noise is dependent on what you put in front of a rtl sdr.
January 24 2017 1 24 pm drone.
First i measured noise using cw mode with a 100 hz bandwidth.
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The sdr that i use next to my transceiver is the airspy spyverter combination.
My objective was to calculate sdr spectrum noise floor from first principles using the above formula.
Take the output from the sdr radio ignore 15 of the bandwidth at the high and low end of the output to avoid the ant alias filtering and we re left with a healthy 70 of the.
First i would like to preface this article by saying that gr limesuite and the limesdr drivers are updated fairly regularly.
That s actually the more likely the noise that most people see than thermal noise.
I ran two receivers rsp2 and perseus side by side sharing the same antenna on the same frequency.
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.
Purists will not be happy they rarely are but it works for me.
Sdr spectrum noise floor running the numbers.