{"id":30277,"date":"2018-01-14T19:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T23:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30277"},"modified":"2018-01-14T19:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T23:23:52","slug":"ivan-compares-the-airspy-hf-to-the-kiwisdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ivan-compares-the-airspy-hf-to-the-kiwisdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan compares the AirSpy HF+ to the KiwiSDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Airspy-waterfall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30280\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Airspy-waterfall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Airspy-waterfall.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Airspy-waterfall-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Airspy-waterfall-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Airspy-waterfall-624x344.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Ivan (NO2CW), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been running a public Kiwisdr server for a while and yesterday decided to plug in the new Airspy HF + into the same antenna for a side to side comparison. The antenna is an 80m dipole and the test was done during local afternoon, around 3 PM. I did not use any of the many new noise reduction features that are incorporated into both SDR Console 3 and the SDR web server. The 11 minute video is located here:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sFQxMnDuWqM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sFQxMnDuWqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I have the time I will run a similar test in nighttime conditions and also test the Airspy HF+ against a few other radios sitting on my desk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this, Ivan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan (NO2CW), who writes: I have been running a public Kiwisdr server for a while and yesterday decided to plug in the new Airspy HF + into the same antenna for a side to side comparison. The antenna is an 80m dipole and the test was done during local afternoon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,129,43,154,158,304],"tags":[6613,6754,4102,5391,4741,157,34,4087],"class_list":["post-30277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","category-shortwave-radio-reviews","category-software-defined-radio","category-videos","tag-airspy-hf","tag-airspy-hf-v-kiwisdr","tag-ham-radio","tag-ivan-cholakov-no2cw","tag-kiwisdr","tag-sdr","tag-shortwave","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7Sl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57725,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ivan-compares-the-new-rtl-sdr-v4-and-the-airspy-discovery-hf\/","url_meta":{"origin":30277,"position":0},"title":"Ivan compares the new RTL-SDR V4 and the Airspy Discovery HF+","author":"Thomas","date":"September 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan (NO2CW), who writes: I ran a test of weak signals RTL-SDR v4 against Airspy HF+ Discovery. 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