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 like to do high frequency dixing and catching some satellite communications to expend my knowledge.
I’d like a yet another receiver to use for RF experimentation.
Introducing my students to the ham world and made them discover what is around us in term of radiowave.
Definitely trying to make new passions !
I would like to use it for replacing my RTL-SDR in developing open source systems.
Build a webSDR.
as a newcomer to SDR, I would like to test Airspy’s sensitivity to ADS-B and more em spectrum, as RTL-SDR’s power is very much limited
I would like to use an AIRSPY to receive HRPT images from meteorological satellites NOAA, METEOR. regards
would probably use it for satellite reception like iridium/inmarsat
This would be awesome! I am currently without any equipment and limited to online SDR’s as with a 6 year old daughter and a wife in college full time, I don’t have the cash to purchase any toys for myself. I would use it for SWL (even though I do have a license!), mainly utility stations, number stations, and a few broadcast stations (my wife is Brasilian and likes to hear the news from her country live…).
Thanks for a most generous give a way!
Eric
Will monitor radio amateur satellites in VHF and UHF.
I would be scanning the HF spectrum with long wire antenna. dxing, and also getting a dish to check out 1.2-1.7ghz satellites.
I’ll use this kit to provide radio reconnaissance in war against russia in the east of Ukraine.
Even if i don’t win, i’ll purchase Airspy+Spyverter when money permits.
I’d love to get a much better and clearer reception of the HF bands than what the direct mod can provide on a standard rtl.
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I would like to use the contest-supplied Airspy R2 plus SpyVerter along with a second unit to make simultaneous comparisons of the signal to noise ratio for HF frequencies of two different antennas, to overcome local man-made noise and be able to hear more weak signals. One antenna system is 2 phased 8′ active verticals, and the comparison antennas include a horizontal wire, an active 1 meter loop, a single high-dynamic-range 3′ active vertical, and an amplified small horizontal dipole, and a novel directional active antenna.
I’d like to try to catch signals from satellites weather airband to listen, to listen weak radio signals, to listen radio stations for receive QSL Cards.
with such an amazing device the uses of such a great device is limitless. will use it for outernet, pretty much the entire radio spectrum.
I would use it to improve my L-Band reception with the higher resolution and for tuning into HF.
I would like to use it for receiving and analyzing signals from HF to UHF, especially ADS-B monitoring.
this would give me my first insight into sdr radio
I would use it to reverse engineering keyfob’s signals
I would use it to reverse engineer 433mhz signals from the multitude of sensors in my house (and contribute to the open source rtl433 project).
I have Airspy R2. Very good receiver.
Explore the spectrum and unknown signals.
I would use it to explore the radio spectrum and weather satws
I would use them for lots of interesting projects.
I would like to use it to monitor propagation issues related to solar activity.
I’ll like to get airspy r2 as it will give so much new things to do with them!
Would love and Airspy Mini “for on the go” work on the new digital radio systems, namely TETRA, DMR and so on.
I’d like to make a tiny altoids box sized SDR type device for decoding digital or analog public safety radio comms that can stream to broadcastify and be affordable enough to be able to ship them preconfigured to out of state friends
I will use it like second receiver and panadapter for my HF transceiver. I tested Airspy and it is one of the best SDR I have seen.
I would use it to monitor meteor showers, or to download images from weather satellites.
I would use it for so many things..
I would use it in conjunction with my simple IC706 and (when on downtime) use it as a RBN receive station, first in Portugal 🙂
I wish to have such an SDR receiver. Greeting
I want to use for ARPS, to listen Radio, to Analize, to Hacking, to Measure…. to everything do to get MAX of that device.
I’m currently working on making beautiful wideband waterfall graphs using pyrtlsdr. An airspy would make it much faster! The Spyverter would be fun for listening to the LF bands and future projects. I haven’t listened to those; I don’t even know what all is down there! I’ve read that there are super low throughput digital signals that can be heard throughout the world; that sounds fun to me.
I would like to use the kit on my yacht to receive weather and Navtex data, as well as experimenting with AIS.
I’m interested in all aspects of Radio Communications on UHF/VHF and HF and these products are fantastic and are the best products available today in my opinion. I’d use them to listen to Airband and HF frequencies and i’d also like to get in to receiving weather images.
Hi – I’d use it for many things but top of my list is for listening to myself on the downlink on ssb sats to confirm I’m getting in and on freq. However weather sats images etc too 🙂 and with the Spyverter it would be even better 🙂
I would like to receive NOAA images of weather conditions.
Enjoying general listening and using it as antenna analyser.