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Air Traffic Monitoring => Feed Setup Pictures => Topic started by: thowe on April 07, 2021, 04:21:23 PM

Title: Comparison Airspy R2/mini/Discovery vs RTL SDR dongles
Post by: thowe on April 07, 2021, 04:21:23 PM
Has anyone bothered to compare the usual RTL SDR dongles with the slightly more expensive variants of Airspy? These would also be supported by rtl_airband. Is the dynamic range, noise immunity, low noise etc. audibly better? If yes, I would finance an update for my feed.

Thanks
Tom
Title: Re: Comparison Airspy R2/mini/Discovery vs RTL SDR dongles
Post by: ralawrencejr on April 15, 2021, 12:25:12 PM
There are some Airspy vs RTL SDR comparisons on the flightaware forum along with a lot of details about Airspy operation and configuration. These discussions are geared to ADSB data reception rather than air traffic voice communications but there is a wealth of information.
Regards,
Richard