I went into the contest with the goal of testing the performance of the HL2+ in crowded CW conditions.Rather than writing a dry narrative of "How I spent my weekend" (actually only four hours of it), I'll just sum it all up in bullet points:I used the HL2+ on Saturday; the Anan-10E on Sunday. Same...
I went through the rest of the bands today and the HL2 looks good on all of them. My HL2 includes, of course, the N2ADR Low Pass Filter board, as they all should (and probably do). 10m .12m .15m .17m .20m.30m.40m .60m .80m .160m ...
While waiting on an "Your Anan-10E is ready" email I thought I'd test a claim on Apache Lab's website regarding SDR radios that use the AD9866 processor - ie, the Hermes Lite 2.Apache Lab's comparative chart claims that the HL2 is not compliant on 10 meters. News to me...let's have a look.[UPDATE:...
A while ago I wrote about how to use the HackRF One as a spectrum analyzer, and mentioned that apart from using its sweep functionality, it could also be used as a real-time 20 MHz spectrum analyzer using any SDR software. I now had to learn about its limitations and possible pitfalls when using...