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.
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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 love to start exploring radio astronomy, in particular exploring some of our near neighbors as this is what my son is currently learning about in school.
It would be great to have some of the best SDR equipment on the market to listen to a large variety of signals.
HF reception and decoding VHF/UHF ham satellite signals.
Being a member of a astronomy club the airspy with the Astro spy software would a great addition to some outreach events also using it for meteor scatter demonstration would be a wonderful way build interest in astronomy as well in the hobby of SDR’s .One last thing I would do if I had the full setup is to have fun playing and learning.
Just want to listen to everything in the spectrum!
Here in Central Florida I’d like to listen to the Caribbean and South/Central American stations on Shortwave and try to get World-Wide Shortwave broadcasts along with HF Aviation freqs and HF Marine communications on the Spyverter and better my current V/UHF reception. Also I’d like to listen to HAM radio and maybe get my license.
I would love to have an Airspy because I only have a normal dongle, I would love to upgrade to an Airspy and probably would do the same as I do with my current dongle: NOAA, listening to HAM radio, TETRA decoding… And I would definitely try ADB-S decoding, with the upconverter I would try to listen to HAM radio.
hello RTL SDR team,
i am delighted and excited to enter in to this contest.
i would like to have the AIRSPY kit to explore more frequencies because my radio can offer my a limited spectrum of broadcast band. i would like to explore air band, VHF and UHF frequencies.
hope i will win
thanks again
regards
mahesh jain
73’s
Really trying to get a good and fairly sensitive RF receiving system using low-power SDR components.
I live on Kodiak island and do not have access to the HAM swap meets or other easily accessed surplus sources to ‘roll’ my own solutions. I will begin with enhancing my ADS-B system to include the ability to listen to shortwave stations as well as downloading weather satellite images.
View atsc signal
I would use it as a primary receiver instead of one of the cheap ones that I currently use. I have lost a couple of them already due to cheap construction. Would be nice to have a quality component.
I wold use them to find RFI radio frequency interference
Thanks
An airspy’s increased dynamic range and spyverter should allow me to get much better s/n ratio to receive weaker signals in the HF band especially in band where strong broadcast HF stations tend to drown out weaker ssb with an rtlsdr dongle. Using the increased bandwith, I can see much more of the spectrum which makes it easier to find interesting signals. In particular, this will allow me to see 20 meters and 40 meters simultaneously. Also it should be possible with a few more components to characterize filters and determine return loss of antennas using spectrum spy.
I’d like to compare the performance of the Airspy with my SDRPlay and FDM-S2 SDRs. Probably not fair against the FDM-S2 but oh well, lets find out! On my 800-ft Beverage the SDRPlay gets completely overloaded. Will the Airspy also??
Would love to set up a UniTrunker PC for decoding my local P25!
As a first timer with SDR,i would explore all of the capabilities of this technology
Finally venture into the world of SDR and use it as a mobile device with my laptop to DX HF and VHF.
I would add a mobile SDR receiver to my truck for tracking down noise sources and interferers in the local area.
There are too many things to play with, this would push me to my limit and want to get my next level ham radio licence so I can also operate HF. Without the ability to RX HF bands at the moment I am unmotivated to sink money into an HF rig that I can’t afford. I’ve had my licence for over a decade and always wanted to explore the lower bands. But I also have RTL-TCP set up to share my SDRs with friends so we can also add to the online WebSDR project when not experimenting, so others can.
I would like to make an intro to others radioamateurs in my country to the exciting world of SDR.
I wanted to capture two signals since years. Unfortenately I am simply not equipped with the needed Devices to find and capture those Frequencies. I hope, you can help me out with this.
First: The Schumann Resonances. Resonances in the ELF portion of the earth’s electromagnetic field. Extremely hard to capture; A big, homemade, underground Antenna is needed.
Second: Number Stations. There are some russian one’s that are still broadcasting. I want to hear and capture them by myself.
Thanks for your support!
-Val
I would like to make some hands-on on the HF reception with son, who I would like to be interested in STEM.
Thank you for this opportunity
If i win one i would like to listen to HF.
would like to tinker more with SDR
I’m a student studying electronics, and would use the SDR to experiment with low powered sensor networks.
I’d like to try those dongles for ADSB or something new… i just need something new.
If I were to win one, I would like to compare the dynamic range of the AirSpy vs. the 8-bit receivers I’m familiar with. The spectrum analyzer software looks especially fun.
I wan’t to experiment with radio astronomy
Work on integrating it into my WebSDR @ the University of Victoria to compliment my KiwiSDR that I run there!
Happy holidays!
I’d like to get my hands on one of these wonderful items as an addition and an improvement to the reception of my generic dongle.
Thank you!
HF signal demodulation
I would like to use the AirSpy as one of our receivers in our shack at the South Florida Science Center to support the ThumbSat / ThumbNet effort. I would also like to explore the potential to use a derivative of the AirSpy as the payload for a ThumbSat we are developing.
I just want recive good quality FAX in Shortwave.
I would use it for number stations of course!
Interested in RF
Hf and amateur satellites
I’d get into DX, and analyzing all the fascinating signals around me that are outside (below) the range of my current RTL rig. And if I won one of the Airspy units, I’d give one of my existing receivers to someone who’d put it to good use.
I would use it to lear what signals can be received and probably try to demodulate/decode them.
I would use it to receive signals from weather satellites and high altitude balloons. Possibly even for improved ADS-B reception.
I’d like to create an automated WeFax receiver that emails the images to my son the meteorologist. Should be easy to script.