{"id":39912,"date":"2019-09-27T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=39912"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T12:00:58","slug":"video-comparing-sdr-power-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/video-comparing-sdr-power-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Comparing SDR power consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39914\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR.jpg 919w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR-624x394.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ivan Cholakov, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are interested, here&#8217;s a video where the power consumption of nine different SDRs was compared:<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/DWAjse4enE8?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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DWAjse4enE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always been curious about SDR power consumption because many of my SDRs are rarely turned off. Thank you for sharing, Ivan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan Cholakov, who writes: If you are interested, here&#8217;s a video where the power consumption of nine different SDRs was compared: Click here to view on YouTube. Fascinating!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always been curious about SDR power consumption because many of my SDRs are rarely turned off. Thank you for sharing, [&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":[3,43,158],"tags":[5391,157,4087,6247,4093],"class_list":["post-39912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-ivan-cholakov-no2cw","tag-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio","tag-tommy-cholakov-n1spy","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-anK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20767,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ivans-preliminary-review-of-the-new-rtl-sdr-dongle-on-shortwavemediumwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":39912,"position":0},"title":"Ivan&#8217;s preliminary review of the new RTL-SDR dongle on shortwave\/mediumwave","author":"Thomas","date":"August 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who shares the following video review of the\u00a0new\u00a0RTL-SDR dongle on the\u00a0shortwave\u00a0and mediumwave bands. 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Readers note: this powerful tool for DXing is a free upgrade for SDR# users! 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