Using a Nooelec SmarTee and getting these periodic wide band dips in signal strength (blue bars). I assume it's something wrong with my SDR. Is that a power issue or something?

ch00f@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Using a Nooelec SmarTee and getting these periodic wide band dips in signal strength (blue bars). I assume it's something wrong with my SDR. Is that a power issue or something?

Thomas Douwes@sopuli.xyz · 10 months ago

hmm, 152MHz seems quite a long way out from 137MHz to cause issues, but if it’s very strong I guess that could the issue.

ch00f@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Yeah, the only reason I’m leaning towards it is because the typical periodicity and duration seems to match with my dropouts. I might try running an experiment with two SDRs tuned to the different frequencies to see if they line up.

Thomas Douwes@sopuli.xyz · 10 months ago

Yeah, I was going to suggest that if you had a second SDR

Thomas Douwes@sopuli.xyz · 10 months ago

137MHz is also quite close to the airband, sometimes nearby aircraft can cause overload

ch00f@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Oh that’s very interesting. We live right next to an airport! Planes flying around all the time.

I’ll have to take a look at that.

Thomas Douwes@sopuli.xyz · 10 months ago

yeah, that might do it