Thanks Doug for the informations, I was waiting for a unit but I removed the order yesterday in favour of a hermes-lite, that is closer to my needs.
Now, after your quick review, I'm happy for my new choice. Paolo, IN3AQK On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:46 PM, McDonald, J Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Several people have complained with HackRF problems, worrying if their > > unit is defective. > > > > I have the same worries. Mine clearly is nowhere near as good as > > the DVB dongles. But it clearly works, no quibble. It works both in > > SDR#/Windows and Gnuradio/GRC/Ubuntu. > > > > But it is plagued by spurious spikes of near-CW stuff everywhere, even > > up in the upper GHz areas where there should be essentially nothing. > > It sees Wi-Fi fine ... but covered by these spurious carriers. And > > many of them are DIFFERENT in SDR# and Gnuradio. And using both > > they are dependant, both in amplitude and frequency, on the > > gain settings at the low gain end as well as the high gain end. > > That dependance at the low gain end implies to me that its is > > incorrectly dithered or some software problem. > > > > I bought it for the wide bandwidth for certain special purposes > > and it serves those purposes OK even in the presence of the garbage. > > But for general use, its a plain, and expensive, joke. > > > > Doug McDonald > > > > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > > -- Paolo Mattiolo Software developer http://www.mattiolopaolo.com blog: http://in3aqk.blogspot.it/ IRCCHAT http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=qrp Profilo LinkedIn <http://it.linkedin.com/pub/paolo-mattiolo/3a/453/990> Profilo Pinterest <http://pinterest.com/paolomattiolo/>
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