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 setup a web accessible SDR receiver that I and others could use.
I have a handful of low-end SDRs, but I’m limited by the cheap antanna they come with. For Christmas I treated myself to a discone antenna, some coax, and now I need to get a mast and set it up. Once that is done I will want a better SDR!
I am new to SDR. I would like to learn how to setup SDR’s
I am new to SDR. I would like to learn how to setup SDR’s and teach middle school kids about the technology
NOAA images!
Good luck!
I could finally get into some HF as of now I was only exploring VHF side of spectrum. Also I have some projects in my mind for which I will need to set up at least 2 SDRs. Would be nice get one for free 🙂 good luck to you all 😀
Would love to set up a remote ADS-B station for an under-served area!
I would be interested in trying to receive shortwave/HF with a spyverter… Plus since my RTL-SDR v3 is tied up right now as part of my outernet station (it receives quite well), an airspy would be a nice upgrade/replacement to use for everything else (been playing around with rtl_433 and ADS-B)
I hope to win the AirSpy R2. I like the supposed lack of DC spike and the 9 MHz of usable spectrum. I mostly do L-band satellite and UHF monitoring and it would be great to have a second radio to go with my SDRplay RSP1.
I Would like to set up a remotely operated wideband receiver.
Thank you for giving us this opportunity.
I have one of the first generation Airspy. Therefore, I treat is rather gingerly. I think it would be fun to set up a web sdr with the first generation and use the second gen to continue to scan the airwaves. Thanks for the opportunity – John
I Would like to make a remotely operated radioscanner using this SDR and a RPi.
I like to show these off to inspire kids and fellow workers with potential interests into this SDR world.
Interested in listening to HF and all amateur radio bands. Airband and NOAA satelittes and weather. Also interested in business bands. Also public safety even tho most are trunked systems now.
I would like to listen to the HF band as I currently do not have any equipment for that. Also use it for my current uses which are: CB Radio (which I can’t seem to pick up anymore), FM Radio, Airband, Amatuer HAM bands 2m, 1.25m, 70cm. Business Band, NOAA weather, Maritime if that even exists near me. Satellites NOAA 15, 18, 19, Meteor-M2, ISS, JAS-2. POGSAC, and also ADB-S. Which is everything I’ve currently experimented with so far.
I would highly appreciate experimenting with the airspy, as a inactive amateur radio operator I have been reading many articles about software defined radio and my interest is growing everyday.
I would like to listen to HF Radio Spectrum and an upgrade from my old RTL-SDR 🙂
As a ham radio and short wave enthousiaste, i would use airspy and spyverter ti monitor ham bands from UHF to 80m, watch for propagation openings in UHF/VHF.
Would also use for meteor detection in bistatic radar configuration using thé Graves radar.
Ut would happily replace m’y RTL2832 devices and home made upconverter in these tasks !
F1EVY
Newcomer to SDR and fascinated with the results of the RTL dongle, but willing to listen to HF.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Im trying to build my own web-sdr for websdr.org or OpenWebRX. It would be not badly to win one of them.
Reverse engineer the outernet and, as a bonus, open automatic garages around the town.
I would use the Airspy to immerse myself into scanning the frequency spectrum, to discover new signals, and mostly to show everyone in the internet the beauty of SDR!
I would love to explore the outernet.
I’d like to try your sdr things 🙂
I would to use the Spyverter to listen shortwave radio and try to listen some tropical stations
You guys are the best. I’d love to own an airspy to enjoy its low noise floor and high resolution. Here goes nothing!
HF reception + CW Skimmer for contesting
T raking all LoRa stations narrow of my house, and maybe use these information for see what information hive to the air the power stations or see the state of the lights of my town.
I would like to create and/or improve open source software for analyzing radio protocols and signals with SDR technology.
I will use it for receiving Weather faxes, DRM, analyzing LORAN, decoding NOAA, ACARS and ADS-B will not be forgotten as well and of course will patiently wait for SAQ transmissions. Never had luck to hear it using RTL.
It is a nice device. I want to use it as spectrum analyzer. I welcome the overall range of free software for it.
To be able to learn more about the radio frequencies and to teach others, to spread the sdr to improve the community.
I would like to study the noise floor of the passband and use a RPI 3 to read the noise floor on a data pin, calculate the Nyquist (or other) algorithm and feedback the output to totally cancel the noise floor signals and pass the data that is outside the wideband noise floor to be processed. This algorithm would need to be able to determine the real white noise of the noise floor from the very weak signals imbedded in it… may be impossible, but would be interesting.. The AirSpy has enough bandwidth to make the study worthwhile.
I’ll listen to HF band
I would like to put up a long wire and listen to HF.
Would love to build more docker images that make it easy to run various rtl-sdr utilities.
Hi, would like to have another one to losten to LW broadcasts !!
Like to listen VLF emissions.
I would like to have one of these to listen to HF.