{"id":38928,"date":"2019-08-08T06:43:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38928"},"modified":"2019-08-08T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:52:13","slug":"fenu-radio-reviews-an-airspy-hf-discovery-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/fenu-radio-reviews-an-airspy-hf-discovery-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenu-Radio reviews an AirSpy HF+ Discovery prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aurspy-hfplus_discovery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37968\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aurspy-hfplus_discovery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aurspy-hfplus_discovery.png 475w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aurspy-hfplus_discovery-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fernando Duarte of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fenu-radio.ch\/Airspy_HF-Plus_Discovery-en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fenu-Radio<\/a> has just posted his review of the AirSpy HF+ Discovery SDR prototype.\u00a0 I trust Fenu&#8217;s reviews because they&#8217;re always thorough and based on actual listening sessions.<\/p>\n<p>In short, he&#8217;s quite impressed with the prototype. In many instances the Discovery outperformed his benchmark Winradio G33DDC Excalibur Pro. Quite an accomplishment for a $169 SDR!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fenu-radio.ch\/Airspy_HF-Plus_Discovery-en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read Funu-Radio&#8217;s full review.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will evaluate a first production run AirSpy HF+ Discovery. Since it&#8217;s incredibly lightweight and compact, I believe I&#8217;ll try to even build a small portable SDR station around it. <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/airspy-hf-discovery\/\">Stay tuned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Duarte of Fenu-Radio has just posted his review of the AirSpy HF+ Discovery SDR prototype.\u00a0 I trust Fenu&#8217;s reviews because they&#8217;re always thorough and based on actual listening sessions. In short, he&#8217;s quite impressed with the prototype. In many instances the Discovery outperformed his benchmark Winradio G33DDC Excalibur Pro. Quite an accomplishment for a [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,129,43,158],"tags":[3724,7791,1764,7940],"class_list":["post-38928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-airspy","tag-airspy-hf-discovery","tag-fenu","tag-hf-discovery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-a7S","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":38928,"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. Using sdr # and a few gain adjustments particular to each of the receivers. 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Using the same W6LVP loop. 3\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SDRs.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SDRs.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SDRs.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":46594,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/radio-deals-airspy-black-friday-sale-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":38928,"position":3},"title":"Radio Deals: Airspy Black Friday Sale 2020!","author":"Thomas","date":"November 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"If you've been thinking about pulling the trigger on an Airspy product, now's the time! Airspy is once again offering huge discounts during their 2020 Black Friday promotion. For example, their Airspy HF+ Discovery SDR--which I consider to be one of the best HF SDRs on the market--is 30% off\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Deals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Deals","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/deals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Airspy-Black-Friday-e1606155245418.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Airspy-Black-Friday-e1606155245418.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Airspy-Black-Friday-e1606155245418.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37967,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-airspy-hf-discovery-a-new-high-performance-sdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":38928,"position":4},"title":"The Airspy HF+ Discovery: A new high-performance SDR","author":"Thomas","date":"May 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"At the 2019 Hamvention, I stopped by the Airspy.US booth and checked out the specifications of Airspy's latest SDR: the Airspy HF+ Discovery. 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