Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

[Nate Temple]

Hi,

> Remember the Nyquist Theorem, which tells us that you can sample 1,6 MHz
> wir 3,2 MSPS, and common amateur radio signals are generally far smaller
> than 1,6 MHz. So the RTLSDR stick will probably be sufficient for most
> of your experiments. 

Just a small correction, the samples from the common RTLSDRs are complex 
samples, so 3.2 MSPS will yield 3.2 MHz bandwidth. It is typically not ideal to 
sample at 3.2 MSPS with the RTLSDRs as they can internally drop samples at that 
rate. 2.048 or 2.56 MSPS is usually a solid sample rate with them, but YMMV 
from RTLSDR to RTLSDR.

Happy Holidays,
Nate