Airspy New Year Competition: Comment to win Airspy and SpyVerter Prizes!
The team behind the Airspy have given us permission to give away three Airspy related prizes for the New Year Holidays! The first prize is an Airspy R2 + Spyverter, the second prize is an Airspy Mini + Spyverter and the third prize is a Spyverter.
The Airspy is a high performance yet low cost software defined radio with a 12-bit ADC and tuning range between 24 – 1800 MHz. It is an attractive device as its dynamic range exceeds all other SDRs in a similar price range. Its performance begins to approach that of the very high end expensive SDRs. High dynamic range means that weak and strong signals can coexist in the received spectrum without any overload occurring. We have previously written reviews of the Airspy R2 and Airspy Mini on our blog.
The Spyverter is a high performance upconverter that allows the Airspy to tune to LF/MW/HF frequencies between DC – 30 MHz. The Spyverter perfectly compliments an Airspy device as it is also a very high dynamic range device. It also works perfectly with the bias tee on our RTL-SDR.com V1/V2/V3 dongles. We previously reviewed the Spyverter here.
More information about these products can be found at airspy.com.
How to Enter
Competition is now finished. Winners will be announced and emailed shortly. Thanks to all who entered!
Winners:
Larry (Airspy R2 + SV)
If I am going to win something from this one stuff, me build internet remote receiver on hill in central Europe (CZ) for all readers and fans of rtl-sdr.com website, generally for all RTL SDR enthusiasts….. :-)))
Pour Felicitér 2017
Larry (Ladislav)
kevin (Airspy Mini + SV)
been a ham a couple years now. their are so many uses for sdr’s ! it’s so cool. just looking down the list of others comments, i was like ‘oh ya’ forgot about that idea. awhile back we did a demo at our ham club with a el cheapo sdr and it sparked some interest , would like to play around with some of the newest toys, worlds of diff in capabilities. ultimate goal is to find the right one for the clubs emergency trailer. seeing the bands and whats going on, is priceless 🙂
Josh (SpyVerter)
I’d love to finally get into the HF band!
The winners were randomly selected using random.org, and all have now been emailed. If you’re a winner, please check your email and spam folder just in case.
Thank you all for participating! It’s really great to see all the variety in what projects people are doing. There were about 500 valid entries resulting in about a 0.6% chance of winning. Keep an eye out for future contests!
Simply make a comment on this post explaining what you’d do like to do with an Airspy or Spyverter if you won one.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THE COMMENT FORM.
The address will only be visible to us, and we promise not to use it for any other purpose.
Rules: The winners will be selected at random. One entry per person only. You must legally be allowed to receive the prize.
Draw closes in one week on 3 January 2017, 11:59PM UTC Time.
I would use airspy and spyverter to share VLF/LF and part of HF on a openWebRX receiver for everyone can access it.
I’d use it to analyze and demodulate digital signals
I’d use it for HF and L band. Thanks!
i’d love to be able to listen to HF signals.
I’d use it along with Trunk Recorder to monitor and recorder a local public safety P25 radio system.
I’d use Airspy for tracking high-altitude balloons.
I would use it for reception of NOAA HRPT Images.
I would love to win a price such as this to use it for satellite receiver.
I want to listen to HF. Thank you.
To seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!
HF: continue help develop software for weak signals like wspr/jt65/jt9 etc
VHF: contribute to build better air-sharing for satellite/balloongs for openwebrx/satnogs.
I want to go deeper in this. I got a chinesse dongle and I’m thrilled with it. I can’t imagine how much I can enjoy the Airspy hardware.
Thanks
to seek out new uncharted signals in the spectrum, and trying to understand the nature of it
I’d like to explore the spectrum analyser and use it as a panadapter for an HF radio and do random listening with it.
Let’s try this! Awesome!
I would like to set up a QRSS grabber for 40 or 80 meter band. And experiment with Outernet reception.
I’d like to have an AirSpy as an IF rig
Airspy with odroid as a portable rtty decoder for high altitude balloon tracking and chasing
I would like to find some aliens or just some airplanes above my head, it depents on the amount of alcohol i’ve been trinking during the holidays. 🙂
I’d like to explore the spectrum analyser and use it as a panadapter for an HF radio and do random listening with it.
i want make passive SSR radar (iff)
I would use it to decode and analyze signals from HF to UHF in windows/linux gnuradio, learning about modulations and codes.
Please Santa !
If I get the Airspy, I would pair it with other Airspy I already own and high precision frequency standard in order to experiment with coherent receiver.
I’d use them to monitor signals from strange antenna complex near (about 15 km) me.
nice promo 🙂
73 de Z32TE
I would like to experiment with decoding on all HF, VHF and UHF bands
FMBC DX as well as other general purpose stuff!
I would love to experiment with exploring multiplexed fm radio signals and demodulate embedded subcarriers for extra listening options. The way FM carriers are put together is fascinating. Thanks.
Searching for ET 🙂
Wanna wanna thank you
Black-box.Silver-box. 😀
I would apply in teaching and experimenting on listening Ham Radio Satellites, CanSat tracking, APRS igate, HF shortwave 10/20/40/80m digital communications, etc. Thank you!
I want to experiment with VHF / UHF digital
I would listening to ham radio shortwave.
I’m old school ham, i dont know so much about SDR. For that reason i wont to have SDR
Great contest! My dad is a Ham and I’m sure he would love another radio to play with!
I would like to use an Surely to monitor and decode digital ham radio transmissions.
Cool contest! My dad is a Ham and I’m interested in listening to shortwave radio and ham communications.