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Originally Posted by radiobob
Welllll....it's actually only 100 kHz to 1.3 GHz, but still...
It's a neat little handheld unit I picked up when I was in New Zealand many years ago...covers USB, LSB, CW, AM, wide FM, and narrow FM. Such things are pretty common now, but it was quite the thing when I bought it. |
Unfortunate that you're missing the upper end of the 950-1450 IF from the lnbs. I used to be able to find a few SCPC signals direct from the LNB, although I'm guessing that those are all gone now. But you can still pick up the beacon signals right around 950 and 1450. I've been using an Icom-R7000 for years, which off the shelf does 25-2000, however it skips 1000-1025 (since that is done via an internal converter), plus I bought a 100MHz converter, which shifts 0-25 up to 100-125, so I have virtually ZERO-2000, although still missing the 1000-1025. The 7000 does all the modes.
About 5 years ago, I picked up a Yaesu VR5000, which does 100KHz-2400MHz. This one is missing cellular, but does the 1000-1025 band.
Anyway, it sounds like your rig does AC, not DC, since you stop at 100KHz. :-)
I know there isn't much between DC and 100KHz, but I've seen signals there. With my converter, if I tune my 7000 down close to 100 on the baseband output of my analog receiver, I used to sometimes hear things within 100KHz of zero, then when I go below 100, I hear a mirror of what I heard above 100. I also used that part of the spectrum once to listen to subcarriers on broadcast FM stations, using the multiplex output of another receiver I have.