HackRF One

David Leiken

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Dec 8, 2023, 2:35:16 PM12/8/23

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I’m looking to get a HackRF One to use with SDRTRUNK. Has anyone had positive or negative experience with this product?

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Carl Makin

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Dec 8, 2023, 9:06:40 PM12/8/23

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> On 9 Dec 2023, at 6:35 am, David Leiken <david...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’m looking to get a HackRF One to use with SDRTRUNK. Has anyone had positive or negative experience with this product?

I’ve got one. The HackRF doesn’t have the most sensitive receiver but the 10Mhz bandwidth is nice. Otherwise it works fine. The front-end is a bit susceptible to overloading and damage so I tend to use cheap RTL dongles instead.

Carl.

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Dec 8, 2023, 10:09:43 PM12/8/23

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I would recommend an SDRPlay instead of a HackRF or Airspy. The RSP1A is a really nice receiver and the most affordable way to get 10 MHz of spectrum. I've been running my RSP2pro with SDRTrunk since July, decoding 7 P25 sites simultaneously, and it's been fantastic.

Art Xbklyn

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Dec 9, 2023, 9:37:40 AM12/9/23

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I installed my HackRF (Chinese clone) as a first try on the local P25 system....didn't work out well. I'm in kind of in a tough situation with the nearest 700MHz county site about 5 miles away and a 700 LTE AT&T cell site 2 blocks up the street. The combination of noise and low signal was too much for that device although I suspect in a rural environment it might work. I switched to my Airspy R2 and that fixed most of the issue (has about 8MHz of instantaneous BW).

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