[Elecraft] RTL SDR dongle

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2021-02-08 8:48 a.m., Eric Lanzl wrote:
> Regarding the RTL SDR dongle. I notice that it says that the dongle will
> go down to 500 khz with reduced sampling below 24 mhz. I wias wondering
> if one needs to get an up converter to get it to work?
The tuner chip does have a sort of "bypass" mode that lets you see the very 
low frequency signals that are below what is considered the normal tuning 
range. It comes at a price. If you are really interested in the lower 
frequencies the use of an external up converter would be a good idea.

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