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Old 15th Jan 2021, 6:20 pm   #21
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Default Re: Looking to become Ham listener

I had a couple of reasons to suggest a "good" SDR is that a) you can look at all the bands and see what you my like later on without buying loads of sets (the RSP I mentioned does 10kHz to 2GHz) and b) It is a requirement to ensure your transmissions are within the bands allowed, SDRs are remarkably accurate on frequency and give you a view of how your modulation is, although you can modulate how you like (unencrypted) it's nice to know you are not hogging the whole band.

I would have loved one when I started.

In the good old bad old days "ones (calibrated?) wavemeter" was out on loan if the authorities checked up on you!