<div dir="ltr">I have a few different ones, ranging from the $8 cheapies to the $45 dc-daylight models. They certainly are easy to use. With an $8 dongle, and a $4 cable you can run one on your Android phone for cheap and portable monitoring. As some will surely add, it has limited bandwidth, limited range and of course who knows how long they will last. <div><br></div><div>For starting off, I would get the $20 one from Amazon:<div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Telescopic/dp/B00QFCNNV0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1431644801&sr=8-2&keywords=sdr">http://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Telescopic/dp/B00QFCNNV0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1431644801&sr=8-2&keywords=sdr</a></div><div><br></div><div>You won't have to worry about getting the correct chipset like with the Ebay ones and it comes with an antenna to get you started. </div><div><br></div><div>Add this cable for your Android device:</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MAJTTYC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MAJTTYC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>To use a real antenna you'll need an MCX adapter, like this one:</div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/coaxial-cable-assembly-female-right/dp/B00CSCTU40/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1431645146&sr=1-1&keywords=mcx-bnc">http://www.amazon.com/coaxial-cable-assembly-female-right/dp/B00CSCTU40/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1431645146&sr=1-1&keywords=mcx-bnc</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Try this software. If you like it, you can unlock the waterfall time limit by purchasing the $10 key</div><div><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marto.androsdr2" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">https://<span class="">play</span>.<span class="">google</span>.<span class="">com</span>/store/apps/details?id=marto.androsdr2</a><br></div><div>Key:</div><div><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marto.androsdr.key" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">https://<span class="">play</span>.<span class="">google</span>.<span class="">com</span>/store/apps/details?id=marto.androsdr.key</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>You'll need this driver too:</div><div><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marto.rtl_tcp_andro">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marto.rtl_tcp_andro</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>You can do cheap and easy ADSB tracking with the same setup using:</div><div><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bs.Avare.ADSB">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bs.Avare.ADSB</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's a screenshot from yesterday using the cheap mag-mount antenna that came with it:</div><div><a href="http://imgur.com/AItgqbN">http://imgur.com/AItgqbN</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Tad</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Alex Fraser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beatnic@comcast.net" target="_blank">beatnic@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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